Cory Booker's Apostasy

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Cory Booker may want to hire a food taster. The Newark Mayor, a Democrat, dared to disagree on Sunday with the Obama campaign's attacks on Bain Capital and the private-equity business, and the liberal orthodoxy machine has been busy delivering retribution.

Mr. Booker uttered his apostasy on NBC's "Meet the Press," calling out both Presidential campaigns for what he called a "nauseating" focus on side issues. He deplored attacks on President Obama for his long-ago association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, but he added that "I have to just say, from a very personal level, I'm not about to sit here and indict private equity. . . . Especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other people are investing in companies like Bain Capital. If you look at the totality of Bain Capital's record, they've done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303610504577418491525026490.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

I really like this guy. He's a liberal, but he also has common sense and is an all-around badass. I also perceive that he has aspirations well beyond serving as Mayor of Newark...
 
He going to run for Senate once Lautenberg retires. He knows where his support is going to come from in that race and it isn't in Newark. It's across the river in Manhattan.
 
Bain and Financial Industry Gave Over $565,000 To Newark Mayor Cory Booker For 2002 Campaign


Yesterday, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker (D) attacked the Obama campaign for making an issue of Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital during an appearance on Meet the Press. While the progressive leader later backed off the criticisms, Republicans have been quick to highlight his comments as an attack against the idea that scrutiny of Mitt Romney’s record as a businessman is fair game.

A ThinkProgress examination of New Jersey campaign finance records for Booker’s first run for Mayor — back in 2002 — suggests a possible reason for his unease with attacks on Bain Capital and venture capital. They were among his earliest and most generous backers.

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.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2...o-newark-mayor-cory-booker-for-2002-campaign/
 
Bijou said:
Bain and Financial Industry Gave Over $565,000 To Newark Mayor Cory Booker For 2002 Campaign


Yesterday, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker (D) attacked the Obama campaign for making an issue of Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital during an appearance on Meet the Press. While the progressive leader later backed off the criticisms, Republicans have been quick to highlight his comments as an attack against the idea that scrutiny of Mitt Romney’s record as a businessman is fair game.

A ThinkProgress examination of New Jersey campaign finance records for Booker’s first run for Mayor — back in 2002 — suggests a possible reason for his unease with attacks on Bain Capital and venture capital. They were among his earliest and most generous backers.

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.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2...o-newark-mayor-cory-booker-for-2002-campaign/
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Another political bright spot has become tainted!
 
bravo said:
Yeah, .....an honest Democrat is hard to swallow for you guys......
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Dumas, that is why I liked him. Duh! But he should have said, I got a donation from Bain, and I feel Obama making this an issue is bad, even though Mitt made it an issue first.

Mitt went from creating 10,000 jobs ith Bain to making 100,000 jobs. I think it is an issue, the issue being Romneys bullshit.
 
How the hell do you guys expect anyone that you like to win a campaign if they don't accept money from the people who have it? Booker's no more tainted than Obama, who himself accepted shitloads of money from Wall Street in 2008.
 
He literally came out hours later, crawfished, and then tried to blame republicans because his newly installed Obamafilter wasn't operational until that afternoon.
 
What I love is that the person running Bain Capital when that company in the ad failed was one of Obama's bundlers. I hope to heck he tries to hold this one with both hands I can already picture the ads. LOL
 
General Buck Turgidson said:
How the hell do you guys expect anyone that you like to win a campaign if they don't accept money from the people who have it? Booker's no more tainted than Obama, who himself accepted shitloads of money from Wall Street in 2008.
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I didn't like it, either. I am of the opinion that only money from actual voters should be accepted, but I am funny that way. Corporation have taken control of our elections it is wrong and until the peope are pissed enough, it won't change.

It has become so corrupt!

Booker was so excited about being on Meet the Press that he didn't think of how this would look. Today's politicians have to think before they speak because someone will find a way to make you pay for it.

I guess Bijou and I are just old school.
 
Damocles said:
He literally came out hours later, crawfished, and then tried to blame republicans because his newly installed Obamafilter wasn't operational until that afternoon.
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I'm going to go ahead and object to your use of the term "crawfished" there. I don't think that's an appropriate term to describe what he did and I like that term and don't want to see its meaning diminished by misusage.
 
Damocles said:
He literally came out hours later, crawfished, and then tried to blame republicans because his newly installed Obamafilter wasn't operational until that afternoon.
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Critizing a guy on your side during an election is never a good idea! I bet Obama was like WTF?
 
Damocles said:
What I love is that the person running Bain Capital when that company in the ad failed was one of Obama's bundlers. I hope to heck he tries to hold this one with both hands I can already picture the ads. LOL
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What I love best is that the bold is completely untrue.
 
General Buck Turgidson said:
I'm going to go ahead and object to your use of the term "crawfished" there. I don't think that's an appropriate term to describe what he did and I like that term and don't want to see its meaning diminished by misusage.
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What? He pretty much said exactly the opposite of what he said previously. If that isn't crawfishing then nothing at all can be considered crawfishing... He snapped that tail, went backwards from his position then tried to camouflage himself blaming others. That, IMO, is crawfishing.
 
Damocles said:
What? He pretty much said exactly the opposite of what he said previously. If that isn't crawfishing then nothing at all can be considered crawfishing... He snapped that tail, went backwards from his position then tried to camouflage himself blaming others. That, IMO, is crawfishing.
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That's back-tracking. Crawfishing is to withdraw from an engagement or commitment, like a bet or a promise to do something. So, like, betting someone $500 and then reneging on a bet is crawfishing (a/k/a pulling a Yurt). Promising to help me move and then not showing up is crawfishing. Stating an opinion and then backtracking from tha opinion is not.
 
Darla said:
LOL Is it really? This is why they don't like you DH. Because you actually check.
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Like most of these things, there's a glimmer of truth in there (a present managing director of Bain's fixed income arm, Sankaty Advisors, was an Obama bundler in 2008). But then the story gets run through the Republican machine before it reaches Damo and get completely mangled to not resemble the truth at all.
 
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