Mayor received $565,000 dollars from finacial industry speaks out to stop attacks on same industry.

[DFab420]

I like everything about this man, and was confused when he made such an issue out of this. Now the picture is at least a bit clearer

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/05/21/488002/bain-financial-industy-gave-over-565000-to-newark-mayor-cory-booker-for-2002-campaign/

Contributions to his 2002 campaign from venture capitalists, investors, and big Wall Street bankers brought him more than $115,000 for his 2002 campaign. Among those contributing to his campaign were John Connaughton ($2,000), Steve Pagliuca ($2,200), Jonathan Lavine ($1,000) — all of Bain Capital. While the forms are not totally clear, it appears the campaign raised less than $800,000 total, making this a significant percentage.
He and his slate also jointly raised funds for the “Booker Team for Newark” joint committee. They received more than $450,000 for the 2002 campaign from the sector — including a pair of $15,400 contributions from Bain Capital Managing Directors Joshua Bekenstein and Mark Nunnelly. It appears that for the initial campaign and runoff, the slate raised less than $4 million — again making this a sizable chunk.
In all — just in his first Mayoral run — Booker’s committees received more than $565,000 from the people he was defending. At least $36,000 of that came from folks at Romney’s old firm.

Still though, ALL the GOOD the Cory Booker completely outweighs this one thing.

I am impressed with his record and I think anyone who thinks he's evil clearly hasn't seen his record as a man, and a leader of a city in need.

[trueblue2007]

1. cory booker is A TOTAL SELL OUT

HE IS A JERK

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/22/1093875/-Cory-Booker-Sellout-or-Dumbbell-

Booker has come to the defense of Mitt Romney and specifically, Romney's time at Bain Capital, strongly defending what he did at the job-destroying company. It's truly vile. But it reveals something about Cory Booker. As Josh Marshall from TPM points out regarding Booker's pro-Romney, pro-Bain comments, “This was not a mistake. This was not a gaffe. This was not something that Cory Booker got backed into by David Gregory on ‘Meet The Press’. Throughout his career, Booker has relied heavily on the financial sector and Wall Street in particular." http://video.msnbc.msn.com/...

Cory Booker was protecting his friends, the guys he went to Stanford and Yale with, who now work as Hedge Fund Operators, making billions annually. Booker wants to keep in good with them. They are much more important than the other 99% of us. It's really not that tough to understand. http://www.youtube.com/...

Now, with his latest comments, where his "progressive" mask obviously slipped off, Booker's entire career has been exposed.

Will we sit back and allow Cory Booker to get his career back on track, worm his way into higher offices, and then "pay back" his billionaire backers with policies that concentrate even MORE wealth into his hands? Or will we know see who Booker is and make sure he NEVER gets elected to anything again?

[DFab420]

4. Why do we hate people that went to Stanford and Yale? That is clearly NOT the reason

he spoke out....

I can agree with everything else you say, but to drop that line in there is clearly a backhanded insult to ANYONE who attends those, or other universities of the same caliber, is part of some evil 1% plot, which is horse shit of the most disgusting kind

[emulatorloo]

6. Probably worth reading the entire Kos piece and watching the supporting videos

rather than latching on to one line to reject it.

I had seen Booker's performance in Gov Christie's VP audition tape last week pre-MTP. Found it rather unsettling. The more I read about Booker and Christie, the more unsettled I got.

Take a look at the Kos piece if you get a chance.

[rfranklin]

2. Another example of how political contributions corrupt everyone...

while we pat ourselves on the back about our wonderful "democracy," the truth is that our political system is a joke. As long as billionaires and corporation can control the conversation, we will never be a real democracy. No matter how wonderful Mr. Booker might be, he turns into a hooker in hot pants when the big money boys wave their wallets. And he is standing on the avenue along with every other member of Congress and virtually every state and local politician.

[DFab420]

3. +100

[Selatius]

5. The sad part is all of what you posted is perfectly legal.

In fact, since Citizens United, it would be far easier to donate a couple grand in person to a person's campaign, and then go out back and spend several hundred thousand more on ads attacking that person's opponent and then declare the ads are coming from neutral third party sources.

This is how you buy policies. Poor people and the middle class be damned. We're running this country like a corrupt banana republic, only with a bigger army and more advanced infrastructure.

[Honeycombe8]

7. I thought so. What he said made no sense otherwise. I hope he loses his next election. nt