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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCory Booker is on fire!
Ive decided I love him. Hes totally on Dr Fords side. Im glad Im watching.
dalton99a
(81,506 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)...a good mix of measured, quiet speaking from some of them and fiery, emotional testimony from Klobuchar, Coons, Blumenthal, and Booker.
It was not phony BS like we heard (actually I muted most of them) from Cruz, Hatch, Lee, etc.
Gothmog
(145,256 posts)JuJuYoshida
(2,215 posts)femmedem
(8,203 posts)I'm listening as I work alone in my office. I almost stood up to give him a one-woman standing ovation.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... I honestly don't understand why some people on liberal websites dislike him so much and are intent on portraying him in a negative light. He may very well be our party's nominee for president or vice-president.
I remember the first time I ever saw him on Rachel's show. He was only a Mayor at that time... and after a few minutes, I knew he was someone special and that great things were in store for him.
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violetpastille
(1,483 posts)I think it's Russian psych ops.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I remember right after he made a passionate speech against confirming Jeff Sessions in early 2017, the Kushner newspaper in NYC had a big front page headline meme about Booker receiving money from big Pharma.
However, I looked at the numbers back then. Booker received 89% of his money in 2014 from individual donors and 11% from PACs - the PAC money was almost all from the legal industry and the entertainment industry, two liberal leaning industries. So, that leaves the money from the pharmaceutical industry being from individual donors. Hundreds of thousands of pharmaceutical employees are in the tri-state area plus Philly. Some gave money to Booker. I think Booker has since said he will not accept PAC money
When you donate to a candidate, you have to put down what industry you are employed in, so if each pharma employee in the tri state area gave $1.50 to Booker, it would add up to the same amount he had received. (If you look at Bernie Sanders, he received money from the legal industry, healthcare industry, education, etc, as individual donors as well)
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Excellent points... than you very much for the info and details. Those who hate Booker surely know that they are in a very weak and disadvantageous position... and that's why they rely so much on obvious disinformation, misinformation and outright lies. (And as we saw "elsewhere", those types of lies are still being circulated and promoted.)
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)is from an article Booker wrote while at Stanford where he confessed to having groped a girl's breast when he was 15
1) Booker confessed, Kavanaugh angrily denied the allegations
2) Booker wrote that after the incident, he was horrified with himself, and he apologized to the girl and they later became friends
3) Because of this incident, Booker became a strong advocate for women's issues, especially sexual harassment and violence against women. I believe he even worked as a counselor in college dealing with these kinds of issues.
4) Groping a boob at 15 is a far cry from pushing a woman into a room, holding her there against her will and attempting to sexually assault/rape her. It's wrong that Booker did what he did, but his actions since have more than made up for one incident as a 15 year old. Kavanaugh seemingly has a pattern to his behavior.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)The things that Booker writes are much more inspiring than the articles, editorials and essays I've seen/read from other politicians.
Booker is an honorable man who learns from his mistakes and who takes those lessons to become a better person and to create a better world for others. I'm so sick of politicians who blame others or try to excuse themselves by blaming it on their age or characterizing it as "youthful indiscretion". I guess "youth" is all relative to someone's actual age, but I think we can all agree that it's pushing things a bit when that phrase is used to self-excuse someone's behavior far beyond their wild and rebellious teenage years.
All I'm trying to say is that generally speaking, people should reset their standards and raise their expectations of the type of behavior (and the personal history, personal mistakes) that we're willing to accept from those who represent us. Booker is an excellent example of the type of person we need more of.
We'll be seeing a LOT more of him in the next couple of years. His detractors need to brace themselves and get used to the idea that he'll be playing a VERY important role in our party's nomination process.
Gothmog
(145,256 posts)I had the pleasure of hearing him speak at the Texas Democratic Party fundraiser earlier this month
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I'm really surprised that liberals on any website would strongly dislike him. He's certainly admired by his fellow liberals on DU.
He draws the typical hostility from the populist-left and mixed socialist-populist sites, but of course1
Opposing members of the liberal majorities is their reason for existence.
Plus the dirty little secret of those groups is that they include a pack of social conservatives populists. They pose as just-plain-progressives, but what they want is social programs for themselves, and they're easy to pick out because they always seem to have a special problem with female and minority liberals. Hillary's too corrupt and too old, Kamala's too scary to think about--maybe she'll go away, Nancy's too incompetent and too old, Corey Booker's too...49 years old.
Lifelong liberal here, and I'm happy with all our good, smart, hardworking liberals.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Opposing members of the liberal majorities is their reason for existence.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Anyone who's over 30 and still actively sabotaging his own professed ideals is not going to change. Sad all right.
Lol. In fact, met one at a call center the other night in her 70s! She showed up to call for a spoiler type who'd run unopposed for a hopeless seat in our blood-red district. No Democratic opponent to badmouth, so she just ranged farther. Not with me listening, believe me, but I did hear Kavanaugh's really our fault.
There but for the grace of genetic inheritance...
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)When he was done speaking, I think he said, "I will leave". Did he then get up and walk out?
Gothmog
(145,256 posts)Corey was a great speaker and I really enjoyed the event
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Corey Booker is a great Democrat
ooky
(8,923 posts)they had between Dr. Ford's testimony and Kavanaugh's calendar, making a hard case for the investigation.
Gothmog
(145,256 posts)Senator Booker is amazing
Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)Not only the areas of questioning but not allowing Kavanaugh to detour and ramble