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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat Cory Booker gains by defending Vulture Capitalists.
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/20/cory_booker_surrogate_from_hell/singleton/
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What Cory Booker gains by defending Vulture Capitalists. (Original Post)
Dawson Leery
May 2012
OP
"Financial support from Wall Street and...the investor class has been key to Booker’s rise"
brentspeak
May 2012
#1
We are kidding of course. He gains maybe $50,000 - $100,000 contribution. Like I said
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#4
Booker: the quintessential Manchurian Candidate to infiltrate the Democratic Party.
BlueCaliDem
May 2012
#5
brentspeak
(18,290 posts)1. "Financial support from Wall Street and...the investor class has been key to Booker’s rise"
It wouldnt be surprising if Booker has already heard from the White House, and surely hes now in for a world of abuse from Obama supporters. But that hardly means he made a mistake, at least in terms of his own ambition. Financial support from Wall Street and, more broadly speaking, the investor class has been key to Bookers rise, and remains key to his future dreams.
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This is why its not at all surprising to see Booker going to bat for private equity. The allies hes cultivated on Wall Street and in the financial industry (think, for instance, of his chummy relationship with Michael Bloomberg) have made Booker a prolific fundraiser, and when he ventured into the ultra-expensive statewide game, hell need them more than ever. Many of them have turned fiercely against Obama over the past few years, convinced that hes unfairly targeted them. Bookers words on Meet the Press may have enraged the average Obama supporter, but to the Wall Street class they were probably close to heroic finally, a big-name Democrat with the cojones to call out Obama on his class warfare!
The Booker calculation, in other words, is probably that the average Democratic voters memory of his outburst will fade long before 2014 but that the average Wall Street donors wont.
Booker really is a self-serving, useless waste.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)3. It is important to build a grass roots effort to stop him.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. he gains an 'R' behind his name
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)4. We are kidding of course. He gains maybe $50,000 - $100,000 contribution. Like I said
before dems are no better.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)5. Booker: the quintessential Manchurian Candidate to infiltrate the Democratic Party.
He needs to be exposed for the fake he is.