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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Sat Aug 10, 2013, 03:35 PM Aug 2013

Senate Candidate Tweets Racist Attack On African American Opponent Cory Booker

The U.S. Senate campaign of Steve Lonegan, who is widely expected to be the Republican nominee in a special election to replace the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), tweeted a racist attack on Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the likely Democratic nominee. Lonegan’s tweet, which has since been deleted, read “#breaking just leaked – Cory Booker’s foreign policy debate prep notes,” and included an image of the city of Newark divided up according to various ethnicities:




A member of Lonegan’s campaign claims that the candidate asked for the tweet to be taken down because he “didn’t find it funny or reflective of the way he thinks.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/09/2443091/senate-candidate-tweets-racist-attack-on-african-american-opponent-cory-booker/

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Senate Candidate Tweets Racist Attack On African American Opponent Cory Booker (Original Post) Playinghardball Aug 2013 OP
Disgusting. eom millennialmax Aug 2013 #1
Surprised this didn't happen sooner BumRushDaShow Aug 2013 #2

BumRushDaShow

(128,833 posts)
2. Surprised this didn't happen sooner
Sat Aug 10, 2013, 03:51 PM
Aug 2013

Maybe the 6'3" Booker should kick the dumb fuck's ass and see if he thinks that funny.

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