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Senator Corey Booker?
New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg (D) will not seek re-election in 2014 when his current term is up. The 89 year-old Lautenberg has been a Senator for most of the last three decades. From the Star-Ledger:
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a pugnacious and plain-spoken Democrat who has represented New Jersey for three decades, will not seek re-election to a sixth term next year.
“I am not announcing the end of anything. I am announcing the beginning of a two-year mission to pass new gun safety laws, protect children from toxic chemicals and create more opportunities for working families in New Jersey,” Lautenberg told the Star-Ledger. “While I may not be seeking re-election, there is plenty of work to do before the end of this term and I’m going to keep fighting as hard as ever for the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate.”
Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) had been considering a primary challenge against Lautenberg, but now that Lautenberg is out of the race Booker is the front runner to replace him.
Polling by Monmouth and PPP found that Booker currently holds a solid lead in both a potential open primary and in a possible general election match-up. While it is still very early now, Booker is clearly the favorite to win this open seat.
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I’m just overwhelmed; we’ll have another o in the senate.
I liked Lautenberg but of course I don’t live in his state so don’t know all that much about him. I do know that I’m not impressed with Booker.
As well you might not be. Google Corey Booker and black agenda report. I tried but they’re messing around with their servers and it’s really raising hob with the website. They’ve been on Booker’s case for awhile now. When you get access, well worth reading.
Thanks. Will do that.
I have heard Booker speak and the man is clearly very capable. He did not attend Stanford by a fluke.
I’m sure he’s very bright and charming. Little bit too much bragging and too much talking for my taste.
Add to the lot another Wall Street stooge soiling his way into congress.
The MSM will sing his praises because he lived on a food stamp budget for a week and rescued some homeless person or whatever token heroic stunt he did. I forget what the fuck it was. Doesn’t matter. The corrupt two party system backed by the corporate media are giving us another future multi- millionaire patriot.
That must have been a hard decision for Lautenberg to decide not to run and effectively make Booker the favorite. He has effectively decided to pass the torch to the next generation. I wonder if Booker himself had anything to do with Lautenberg’s decision or whether it was purely about age.
It appears to be entirely practical: the entrails read election doom. I’ve been looking for someone else to vote for since his last election, he’s too old. And he’s not as liberal as he’s made out to be.
Booker gets some really good PR from the Ownership Class. I wonder if former Pres. Clinton and Hillary will do fundraising and campaign events for him? That would be a good ” tell “. Anyway, Lautenberg, Harkin and probably Johnson(SD) will join Harry, Barack and Joe on that long term vacation list in 2014, methinks. Will our SS checks need to be adjusted, yet again, to pay for their retirement? Perhaps double log chain CPI, with tie downs, will work.
Afraid Corey will fit right in. Hope I’m wrong.
You are not.
Thank you..isn’t it how that works out…I know a lot of folks who associate progressivism with the Democratic party…i.e just a few days ago I heard Amy Goodman referring to John Kerry as “librul”.Or calling George Soros “librul”.
You are absolutely correct.Booker is no librul just as being a member of the DNC confers progressivism.
Quite simply,If the DNC was a librul entity we would never had been saddled with half the mess that has engulfed us.
Mrs. Tiger (who, like me, grew up in NJ) thinks Lautenberg decided to retire because Christie is almost certain to get re-elected. Should that happen, Lautenberg would have to stay alive for nearly five more years to avoid having his seat filled by a Republican.
If Corey Booker is elected to succeed Lautenberg, the seat will be filled by a Republican–and Menendez, who is another of those amorphous “centrists”–will be encouraged to move further right.
Is there a photo of Harold Ford, Jr., Corey Booker and President Obama together, perhaps? Maybe viewing/admiring the Statue of MLK, Jr.? That would be a nice touch for the campaign kickoff.