Lone Dem Scrambles to Defend Confirming Ivanka’s Father-in-Law

New Jersey’s Cory Booker cites Charles Kushner’s role in helping pass the First Step Act for his support for top diplomatic role.

The Daily Beast

#ACLU Town Hall with Senator Cory Booker today, May 22, 4pm ET / 1pm PT, a virtual Town Hall to discuss the ongoing battle to defend our democracy in the face of President Trump's constant attacks on civil liberties. (This link will direct you to a third party site, YouTube.com.)

#CoryBooker #civilrights #democracy
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ACLU Town Hall with Senator Cory Booker

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Yes, yes: #CoryBooker shouldn't have supported Kushner's nomination as ambassador to France. I wish he hadn't. But who gives a shit who the f'ing ambassador to France is, particularly when anybody nominated by this administration is likely to be corrupt, incompetent, and immoral? In any event, the nomination was going through with or without Booker's vote.

Let's keep our eye on the big picture, folks. These purity tests don't work out well for us. Anybody who thinks Cory Booker isn't on the right side of this fight has taken leave of their senses.

#Amerika #impeach47 #resist #donotcomply

The entire entrenched "leadership" of the Democratic party needs to go, they're controlled opposition, controlled by the financial elites, and if and when full fascism is established, they will either join the regime or quietly step aside.

Booker just demonstrated that his Senate speech was just to get him in the record books.

#CharlesKushner #CoryBooker #Corruption https://mastodon.social/@tuckerfrump/114540706932278201

1 Democratic Senator Voted To Confirm Jared Kushner's Ex-Con Dad To Be Ambassador To France

Charles Kushner had noted his “special and close friendship" with the senator in prepared testimony for his confirmation hearing.

Yahoo News
Cory Booker Faces Backlash After Voting for Jared Kushner's Father

Charles Kushner, who is set to serve as ambassador to France, said, "I think that my past mistakes … make me more qualified."

Newsweek
Ken Gibson, Sharpe James, Cory Booker, Ras Baraka, and Black Politics in Newark

Lawrence Hamm, of the People’s Organization for Progress (POP), joins us from Newark, New Jersey to talk about Black politics in that city. The late Sharpe James was mayor for a record setting 20 year

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#DavidHogg also made the important point that the idea of younger, fresher faces challenging Democratic incumbents is not a new one.

“Some of the most prolific leaders in our party, whether it’s [Senator] #CoryBooker [D-NJ], whether it’s #AOC, whether it’s [Representative] #RoKhanna [CA] or even [House Minority Leader] #HakeemJeffries [D-NY] … all got there through Democratic primaries of incumbents,” he told Capehart.

#USpol #Democrats

‘Just wildly illegal’: top Democrats push to censure Trump’s plan to accept Qatar jet

Four senators, including Cory Booker, say they will press for vote against president’s plan to take $400m gift from Qatar

The Guardian