The nation’s mayors on Monday backed a national call for reparations to 41 million black people, a program that could cost taxpayers $6.2 quadrillion. The U.S. Conference of Mayors released a letter backing a Democratic plan to form a reparations commission to come up with a payment for slavery. “We recognize and support your legislation […] More
Democrat Cory Booker dropped out of the presidential race Monday, ending a campaign whose message of “unity and love” failed to resonate in a political era marked by partisan chaos. Since launching his campaign last February, Booker, a U.S. senator from New Jersey, struggled to raise the money required to support a White House bid. […] More
2020 Democratic candidate Cory Booker is making the environment one of the central pillars of his campaign. But when he was the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, he was at the center of a water scandal that is coming back to haunt him. ABC News reports: For Cory Booker, water crisis awakens ghosts of past Newark […] More
Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker has vowed to create a White House office to combat “hate crimes” if elected President. Booker says he will make fighting white supremacy and hate crimes a priority under his administration. Reuters reports: Booker said he would also require the FBI and the Justice Department to allocate the same level of […] More
Little Cory Booker is really desperate because his campaign is floundering, but he was nailed with a swift fact-check about a false claim he made during the debate. We lost the state of Michigan because everybody from Republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American voters,” the New Jersey senator said during the Democratic presidential […] More
Presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) escorted 5 migrants seeking refugee status across the border in order to thwart immigration enforcement policies of the Trump administration. Sabrina Singh, the national press secretary for the Booker campaign, announced the effort on her social media account Wednesday. NEWS: Today @CoryBooker crossed the U.S. border from Juarez to […] More
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker refused Saturday to rule out meeting with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who is known for making anti-Semitic remarks. “I have heard Minister Farrakhan’s speeches for a lot of my life,” Booker said at a political event in Columbia, South Carolina. Asked whether he would be willing to […] More
Responding to news that President Donald Trump’s administration was considering releasing detained immigrants into sanctuary cities, Sen. Corey Booker, D-N.J., said this weekend that the measure would make Americans “less safe.” In the past, Booker has expressed staunchly pro-immigrant stances, such as when he said he would “fight anyone who wants to shut down this nation’s open arms” in […] More
“This bill is a way of addressing head-on the persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country.” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., on Monday introduced a bill that would explore slavery reparations as a way of ending American “white supremacy.” In filing the proposed legislation in the Senate, Booker positioned himself as […] More
New Jersey Democrat Senator Cory Booker exclaimed that the real heroes in the U.S. military are the transgender soldiers and that President Donald Trump’s proposed ban on transgender soldiers is a national security threat. “Transgender servicemembers are heroes, just like all other servicemembers risking their lives for their country,” Booker said in his March 9 tweet, CNS […] More
A taxpayer-funded gravy train promoted by Democrats Kamala Harris and Cory Booker that would provide “free money” to low-income and middle-class Americans would add trillions to the US debt and result in higher unemployment. That’s the assessment of several public-policy think tanks. Harris and Booker — who are each considering running for president in 2020 — are […] More
Senator Corey Booker has been accused of a #MeToo sexual assault. The self-appointed “Spartacus” hero, who made a fool of himself, grandstanding during the Justice Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, is now facing the same type of allegations he helped perpetuate against Kavanaugh. Only this time, Booker’s accuser is a gay Democrat man, who, unlike Dr. Ford, […] More
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