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Cory Booker

April 13, 2023

"Senator Booker" redirects here. For the Virginia State Senate member, see Marshall B. Booker.

Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969)[1][2] is an American politician and attorney who has served as the junior United States senator from New Jersey since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey. He was the 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, and served on the Municipal Council of Newark for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002.

Cory Booker
United States Senator
from New Jersey
Assumed office
October 31, 2013
Serving with Bob Menendez
Preceded byJeffrey Chiesa
38th Mayor of Newark
In office
July 1, 2006 – October 31, 2013
Preceded bySharpe James
Succeeded byLuis Quintana
Member of the Newark Municipal Council
from the Central Ward
In office
July 1, 1998 – June 30, 2002
Preceded byGeorge Branch
Succeeded byCharles Bell
Personal details
Born
Cory Anthony Booker

(1969-04-27) April 27, 1969 (age 53)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Domestic partnerRosario Dawson (2019–2022)
RelativesRuPaul (cousin)
EducationStanford University (BA, MA)
Queen's College, Oxford (MA)
Yale University (JD)
Signature
WebsiteSenate website
College football career
Stanford Cardinal – No. 81
PositionTight end
Class1991
MajorPolitical science
Personal information
Height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight220 lb (100 kg)
Career history
Bowl games1991 Aloha Bowl
High schoolNorthern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan
Cory Booker's voice
Cory Booker speaks on Public Defenders
Recorded March 16, 2023

Booker was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Harrington Park, New Jersey. He attended Stanford University, receiving a BA in 1991 and a master's degree a year later. He attended Queen's College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship before attending Yale Law School. He won an upset victory for a seat on the Municipal Council of Newark in 1998, staging a 10-day hunger strike and briefly living in a tent to draw attention to urban development issues in the city. He ran for mayor in 2002 but lost to incumbent Sharpe James. He ran again in 2006 and defeated Deputy Mayor Ronald Rice. Booker's first term saw the doubling of affordable housing under development and the reduction of the city budget deficit from $180 million to $73 million. He was reelected in 2010. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in a 2013 special election and reelected in 2014 and in 2020.

Throughout his Senate tenure, Booker has written, sponsored, and passed legislation advancing women's rights, affirmative action, same-sex marriage, and single-payer healthcare. He has pushed for economic reforms to address wealth inequality in the U.S., particularly the racial wealth gap. Booker has pursued measures to reform the criminal justice system, combat climate change, and restructure national immigration policy. In foreign policy, he has voted successfully for tougher sanctions against Iran, voiced support for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and lobbied for increased diplomacy in the Middle East. He was the first senator to ever testify against another senator during attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions's 2017 confirmation hearing. Booker was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, suspending his campaign on January 13, 2020.

Early life and education

Booker was born in Washington, D.C.; he grew up in Harrington Park, New Jersey, 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Newark.[1][2] His parents, Carolyn Rose (née Jordan) and Cary Alfred Booker, were among the first black IBM executives.[2][3][4] Booker has said that he was raised in a religious household and that he and his family attended a small African Methodist Episcopal Church in New Jersey.[5] Booker has Sierra Leonean ancestry, which he learned when featured on the PBS television program Finding Your Roots.[6]

Booker graduated from Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, where he played varsity football and was named to the 1986 USA Today All-USA high school football team. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1991 and a master of arts in sociology in 1992. He played football for Stanford at the position of tight end and was teammates with Brad Muster and Ed McCaffrey,[7] making the All–Pacific-10 Academic team. He was elected senior class president.[8][9] In addition, Booker ran The Bridge Peer Counseling Center, a student-run crisis hotline, and organized help from Stanford students for youth in East Palo Alto, California.[10]

Booker was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Queen's College, Oxford, earning a degree in United States history in 1994.[9] At Oxford, Booker served as president of the Oxford University L'Chaim Society.[11] He obtained his Juris Doctor in 1997 from Yale Law School and operated free legal clinics for low-income residents of New Haven, Connecticut. At Yale, Booker was a founding member of the Chai Society (now Shabtai).[12] He also was a Big Brother with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and active in the National Black Law Students Association.[13]

Municipal Council of Newark

Contemplating advocacy work and a run for city council in Newark after graduating from law school, Booker lived in the city during his final year at Yale.[14] After graduation, he served as staff attorney for the Urban Justice Center in New York and program coordinator of the Newark Youth Project.[15] In 1998, Booker won an upset victory for a seat on the Municipal Council of Newark, defeating four-term incumbent George Branch.[16] To draw attention to the problems of open-air drug dealing and associated violence, he went on a 10-day hunger strike, living in a tent and later in a motor home near drug-dealing areas of the city.[17] Booker also proposed council initiatives that affected housing, young people, law and order, and the efficiency and transparency of City Hall, but was regularly outvoted.[18]

Mayor of Newark

Mayoral campaigns

 
Cory Booker for Newark campaign sign

2002 election

See also: 2002 Newark mayoral election

On January 9, 2002, Booker announced his campaign for mayor of Newark rather than running for reelection as councilman.[19][20] That pitted him against longtime incumbent Sharpe James. James, who had easily won election four consecutive times, saw Booker as a real threat and responded with mudslinging. At one campaign event James called him "a Republican who took money from the KKK [and] Taliban ... [who's] collaborating with the Jews to take over Newark."[21] In the campaign James's supporters questioned Booker's suburban background, calling him a carpetbagger who was "not black enough" to understand the city.[22] Booker lost the election, garnering 47% of the vote to James's 53%.[20] The Oscar-nominated documentary Street Fight chronicles the election.[23]

During the campaign, Booker founded the nonprofit organization Newark Now.[24]

2006 election

See also: 2006 Newark mayoral election

On February 11, 2006, Booker announced that he would run for mayor again.[25] Although James filed paperwork to run for reelection, he announced shortly thereafter that he would instead cancel his bid to focus on his work as a state senator, a position to which he was elected in 1999.[26] At James's urging, Deputy Mayor Ronald Rice decided to run for mayor.[27] Booker's campaign, raising over $6 million, outspent Rice's 25 to 1, for which Rice attacked him. Booker, in turn, attacked Rice as a "political crony" of James.[28][29] Booker won the May 9 election with 72% of the vote. His slate of city council candidates, known as the "Booker Team", swept the council elections, giving Booker firm leadership of the city government.[30]

2010 election

See also: 2010 Newark mayoral election

On April 3, 2010, Booker announced his candidacy for reelection. At his announcement event, he remarked that a "united government" was crucial to progress, knowing his supporters in the city council faced tough reelections.[31] Heavily favored to win, Booker faced former judge and Essex County prosecutor Clifford J. Minor and two minor candidates.[32][33] Booker was reelected with 59% of the vote.[34]

Tenure

Before taking office as mayor, Booker sued the James administration, seeking to terminate cut-rate land deals favoring two redevelopment agencies that had contributed to James's campaigns and listed James as a member of their advisory boards. Booker argued that the state's "pay-to-play" laws had been violated and that the land deals would cost the city more than $15 million in lost revenue. Specifically, Booker referenced a parcel at Broad and South Streets that would generate only $87,000 under the proposed land deals yet was valued at $3.7 million under then-current market rates.[35] On June 20, 2006, Superior Court Judge Patricia Costello ruled in Booker's favor.[36]

In late June 2006, before Booker took office, New Jersey investigators foiled a plot to assassinate him led by Bloods gang leaders inside four New Jersey state prisons. The motive for the plot was unclear, but was described variously as a response to the acrimonious campaign[37] and to Booker's campaign promises to take a harder line on crime.[37]

First term

 
Booker at a fundraiser with New York County District Attorney candidate Cyrus Vance Jr. in 2009

Booker took office as mayor of Newark on July 1, 2006.[38][39][40] After his first week in office, he announced a 100-day plan to implement reforms. The proposed changes included increasing police forces, ending background checks for many city jobs to help former offenders find employment in the city, refurbishing police stations, improving city services, and expanding summer youth programs.[41]

One of Booker's first priorities was to reduce the city's crime rate. In furtherance of this, he appointed former deputy commissioner of operations of the New York City Police Department Garry McCarthy director of the Newark Police Department.[42] Crime reduction was such a central concern of Booker's administration that he and his security team were known to personally patrol the Newark's streets until as late as 4 a.m.[43]

Booker was a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition,[44] a bipartisan group with a stated goal of "making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets". In October 2009, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence gave him the Sarah Brady Visionary Award for his work in reducing gun violence.[45] During his mayoralty, crime dropped significantly in Newark, which led the nation in violent crime reduction from 2006 to 2008.[43] March 2010 marked Newark's first murder-free month in over 44 years,[46] although murder and overall crime rates began to rise again after 2008.[47] In addition to his crime-lowering initiatives, Booker doubled the amount of affordable housing under development and quadrupled the amount under pre-development, and reduced the city budget deficit from $180 million to $73 million.[48][49][50]

After taking office, Booker voluntarily reduced his own salary twice, first by 8% early in his first year as mayor.[51] He also raised the salaries of many city workers.[43] But his administration imposed one-day-a-month furloughs for all non-uniformed employees from July through December 2010, as well as 2% pay cuts for managers and directors earning more than $100,000 a year.[52] In 2008 and 2009, the City of Newark received the Government Finance Officers Association's Distinguished Budget Presentation Award.[53][54] In an effort to make government more accessible, Booker held regular open office hours during which city residents could meet with him to discuss their concerns.[55] In 2010, Booker was among the finalists for the World Mayor prize, ultimately placing seventh;[56] he was also an unsuccessful candidate for the 2012 award.[57] In March 2010, Booker won a Shorty Award in the government category for having the best microblog.[58]

In July 2010, Booker attended a dinner at a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, where he was seated with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.[59] Zuckerberg, who had no known ties to Newark, announced in September 2010 that he was donating $100 million to the Newark school system. According to The New York Times, Booker and Zuckerberg continued their conversation about Booker's plans for Newark.[60] The initial gift was made to start a foundation for education. The gift was formally announced when Booker, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and Zuckerberg appeared together on The Oprah Winfrey Show.[61] Some considered the timing of Zuckerberg's donation a move for damage control to his image, as it was announced on the opening day of the movie The Social Network, a film that painted an unflattering portrait of Zuckerberg. But on her show, Winfrey told the audience that Zuckerberg and Booker had been in talks for months, had planned the announcement for the month before, and that she and Booker had to force Zuckerberg to put his name on the donation, which he had wanted to make anonymously.[62]

On October 10, 2010, Booker established Let's Move! Newark as part of First Lady Michelle Obama's national Let's Move! initiative against childhood obesity.[63]

Booker gained national attention on December 28, 2010, when a constituent asked him on Twitter to send someone to her elderly father's house to shovel his driveway because he was about to attempt to do it himself. Booker responded by tweeting, "I will do it myself; where does he live?" Other people volunteered, including one person who offered his help on Twitter, and 20 minutes later Booker and some volunteers showed up and shoveled the man's driveway.[64][65]

Second term

In October 2011, Booker expanded the Let's Move! Newark program to include Let's Move! Newark: Our Power, a four-month fitness challenge for Newark public school students run by public health advocate Jeff Halevy.[66]

On April 12, 2012, Booker saved a woman from a house fire, suffering smoke inhalation and second-degree burns on his hands in the process. Newark Fire Chief John Centanni said that Booker's actions possibly saved the woman's life.[67] After Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of New Jersey's and New York's shoreline areas in late October 2012, Booker invited Newarkers without electrictiy and similar services to eat and sleep in his home.[68] In February 2013, responding to a Twitter post, Booker helped a nervous constituent propose to his girlfriend.[69] Booker rescued a dog from freezing temperatures in January 2013 and another dog that had been abandoned in a cage in July 2013.[70][71]

On November 20, 2012, a melee occurred at a Newark City Council meeting Booker attended.[72] The nine-seat council was to vote on the successor to the seat vacated by newly elected U.S. Representative Donald M. Payne, Jr. Booker's opponents on the council, including Ras Baraka, sought to appoint John Sharpe James, son of former mayor Sharpe James, while Booker and his supporters favored Shanique Speight. Booker attended the meeting to deal with the eventuality of the lack of a quorum or a tie vote, in which state law would allow him to cast a deciding vote. After acting Council President Anibal Ramos Jr. refused Baraka an opportunity to address the council, Baraka and two other council members walked away in protest. Booker cast the deciding vote for Speight. Supporters of James stormed the stage and were held back by riot police, who eventually used pepper spray on some members of the crowd.[73] Baraka later blamed Booker for inciting the disturbance. Booker refused to comment to the media after the vote.[72][73]

In December 2012, after discussions with a constituent about New Jersey's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Booker began a weeklong challenge attempting to live on a food budget of $30 per week—the amount he said that New Jersey paid SNAP recipients.[74] When critics noted that the very name of the SNAP program shows that it is intended to "supplement" an individual's food budget, not be its sole source, Booker replied that his aim was to spark a discussion about the reality that many Americans rely solely on food stamps to survive.[75]

Public opinion polling

Throughout Booker's mayoralty, Fairleigh Dickinson University's public opinion poll PublicMind asked New Jersey residents whether they had heard of Booker and whether they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him. The results were:

March 2014[81]

  • Name recognition: 88%
  • Favorable opinion: 47%
  • Unfavorable opinion: 23%

Legacy

Booker's mayoralty and celebrity drew substantial media attention to Newark. While he had high ratings from Newarkers, his legacy has received mixed reviews. During his tenure, millions of dollars were invested in downtown development, but underemployment and high murder rates continue to characterize many of the city's neighborhoods.[82][83][84] Despite legal challenges initiated during his term, Newark Public Schools remained under state control for nearly 20 years.[85] Newark received $32 million in emergency state aid in 2011 and 2012, requiring a memorandum of understanding between Newark and the state that obligated the city to request and the state to approve appointments to City Hall administrative positions.[86]

While mayor, Booker claimed in an interview that Newark's unemployment rate had fallen by two percentage points.[87] PolitiFact rated the claim "false" because he used data that had not been seasonally adjusted; the adjusted rate was 0.7 percentage points.[87]

U.S. Senate

Elections

2013

Main article: 2013 United States Senate special election in New Jersey
 
Booker's swearing in as Senator, with his mother and Vice President Joe Biden
 
Booker in 2014

On December 20, 2012, Booker announced that he would explore running for the U.S. Senate seat then occupied by Frank Lautenberg in the 2014 election, ending speculation that he would challenge Governor Chris Christie in the 2013 gubernatorial election.[88] On January 11, 2013, Booker filed papers to form a campaign committee[89] without announcing whether he would run.[90] About a month later, Lautenberg—then 89 years old—announced that he would not seek reelection in 2014.[91]

On June 3, Lautenberg died of viral pneumonia; five days later, Booker announced his intention to run for Lautenberg's seat in a 2013 special election. Booker announced his candidacy at two events, one in Newark and the other in Willingboro.[92]

On August 13, 2013, Booker was declared the winner of the Democratic primary, with approximately 59% of the vote. On October 16, he defeated Republican Steve Lonegan in the general election, 54.9% to 44.0%.[93] Booker was the first African-American to be elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004.[94][95][96][97] The night before his victory, he visited the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, offering prayers and lighting a vigil candle in memory of his father.[98][99]

Booker resigned as mayor of Newark on October 30,[100] and on October 31 was sworn in as the junior U.S. senator from New Jersey.[101] He is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey.[94][95][96][97]

2014

Main article: 2014 United States Senate election in New Jersey

On January 9, 2014, Brian D. Goldberg, a West Orange resident and New Jersey businessman, announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.[102] On January 27, 2014, Freehold Township businessman Richard J. "Rich" Pezzullo announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination. Pezzullo had run for the US Senate in 1996 as the Conservative Party candidate.[103] On February 4, 2014, conservative political consultant Jeff Bell announced his bid for the nomination. Bell was the Republican Party nominee for U.S. Senate in 1978.[104] Ramapo College professor Murray Sabrin, who ran for the Senate in 2000 and 2008, announced his candidacy on February 13.[105]

Bell won the Republican primary and received support from the conservative American Principles Fund, which ran a direct-mail operation costing over $80,000, and the National Organization for Marriage, an organization opposing same-sex marriage, which paid for $6,000 of automated calling.[106] Booker defeated Bell in the general election with 55.8% of the vote to Bell's 42.4%.[107]

2020

Main article: 2020 United States Senate election in New Jersey

In his reelection campaign, Booker faced Republican nominee Rik Mehta, a pharmaceutical executive and attorney.[108] The election was primarily conducted by mail-in ballots, as mandated by Governor Phil Murphy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.[109] Booker and Mehta participated in a virtual debate sponsored by the New Jersey Globe, in which they sparred over issues including the Trump presidency, COVID-19 lockdowns, the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and systemic racism.[110][111]

In the November 3 general election, Booker defeated Mehta, 57%–41%.[112]

Tenure

 
Booker with Judge Merrick Garland, 2016

In November 2013, Booker co-sponsored and voted for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.[113] In December 2013, he was one of the original cosponsors of Bob Menéndez's Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013, which would toughen sanctions against Iran.[114] He also voted for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014[115] and the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013.[116] In January 2014, he cosponsored the Respect for Marriage Act.[117] In February 2014, Booker voted against the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013.[118] In March, Booker pledged to meet with each of his Republican colleagues in the Senate in order to find common ground, and was spotted having dinner with Senator Ted Cruz in Washington.[119]

Leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Booker endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. He was considered a potential vice-presidential candidate during the primary and as the general election began, though he said on June 16 that he was not being vetted.[120] After the election, in which Donald Trump defeated Clinton, Booker testified on January 11, 2017, against Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions, the first instance of a sitting senator testifying against another during a cabinet position confirmation hearing.[121]

Booker supported fellow New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez when Menendez faced trial on federal corruption and bribery charges. During the trial, Booker was a character witness for Menendez, giving him effusive praise.[122] After the judge declared a mistrial, Booker argued that prosecutors ought not to take Menendez to trial again.[123] When Menendez ran for reelection, Booker praised Menendez, saying he was "so grateful for Bob Menendez and that I get to work with him and stand beside him."[124] Booker downplayed the corruption allegations, saying "to try to continue to try to throw this kind of mud at him, it's not going to stick. It didn't stick when the government tried to do it and it should not stick now."[125]

In 2018, Politico named Booker part of the "Hell-No Caucus", along with Senators Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders, after he voted "overwhelmingly to thwart his [Trump's] nominees for administration jobs", including Rex Tillerson, Betsy De Vos, and Mike Pompeo; all the senators on the list were considered potential 2020 presidential contenders.[126]

In April 2018, after the FBI raided the hotel room and offices of Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, Booker, Chris Coons, Lindsey Graham, and Thom Tillis introduced new legislation to "limit President Trump's ability to fire special counsel Robert Mueller." Termed the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, the legislation would allow any special counsel, in this case Mueller, to receive an "expedited judicial review" in the 10 days following being dismissed to determine if said dismissal was suitable. If not, the special counsel would be reinstated. At the same time, according to The Hill, the bill would "codify regulations" that a special counsel could be fired by only a senior Justice Department official, while having to provide reasons in writing.[127]

On September 5, 2018, during the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh (nominated by Trump to replace retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court), Booker questioned Kavanaugh on a series of emails marked "committee confidential" dating to Kavanaugh's time in the office of the White House Counsel during George W. Bush's presidency. The emails, which Booker's office released to the public the next day, show Kavanaugh and others in the Counsel's office discussing racial profiling as a means to combat terrorism, particularly after 9/11. Booker said that he was violating Senate rules in releasing the documents, with the penalty including possible expulsion from the Senate; he nonetheless defended his decision, referring to the process of producing documents for the hearing as a "sham" and challenging those who warned him about the consequences to "bring it on".[128][129] Booker also described the release as "probably the closest I'll ever have in my life to an 'I am Spartacus' moment", referring to a line in the 1960 film Spartacus.[130][131] Committee chairman Chuck Grassley said the documents had already been cleared for public release the night before, and that Booker was not violating any rules, leading some Republicans to accuse Booker of engaging in "theatrics" and "histrionics".[132] Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas mocked Booker in comments the following week, saying, "Honorable—if we could use that word about more people who are in public life, people who actually ask the questions at confirmation hearings, instead of 'Spartacus.'"[133] Booker was also one of several Democratic lawmakers and critics of President Trump who was targeted with a mailed pipe bomb.[134]

Booker played a leading role in the push to pass the First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill.[135] He has introduced the Marijuana Justice Act, which would legalize cannabis in the United States on the federal level, defund some law enforcement in jurisdictions that have shown racial bias in marijuana arrests, and increase funding to communities affected by the war on drugs.[136][137]

Booker announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president in the 2020 election on February 1, 2019.[138]

 
Booker meeting with President Biden

Booker was participating in the certification of the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count on January 6, 2021, when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Minutes after rioters breached the Capitol, Booker and his fellow senators were evacuated from the chambers.[139] Booker blamed Trump for inciting the attack.[140][141] After the attack, Booker called for the invocation of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and/or impeachment to remove Trump.[142]

Committee assignments

Current

  • Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (2021–present)[143]
    • Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources
    • Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research (Chair)
    • Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security
  • Committee on Foreign Relations (2017–present)
    • Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy
    • Subcommittee on Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy
    • Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development(Ranking)
  • Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
  • Committee on the Judiciary (2018–present)
    • Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights
    • Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration
    • Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism

Previous

Caucus memberships

2020 presidential campaign

 
Logo for Booker's presidential campaign.
 
Booker campaigning for president in San Francisco, California
Main article: Cory Booker 2020 presidential campaign

On February 1, 2019, Booker announced his campaign for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 presidential election. Before his announcement, it was widely speculated that he would run for president but he expressed uncertainty about it.[146] Within a month after Booker announced his candidacy, Governor Phil Murphy,[147] Bob Menendez,[148] and every Democratic member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey endorsed him.[149] Booker held a campaign kickoff rally in Newark on April 13.[150] After qualifying for the first five Democratic Party presidential debates, he failed to meet the polling thresholds to participate in the sixth debate in December 2019.[151] On January 13, 2020, Booker announced that he was suspending his campaign.[152] In March 2020, Booker endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president.[153]

Political positions

Main article: Political positions of Cory Booker

Booker has been called a liberal and progressive Democrat.[154][155] As a senator, he has a liberal voting record.[135][156] In a July 2013 Salon interview, Booker said, "there's nothing in that realm of progressive politics where you won't find me."[157] In a September 2013 interview with The Grio, when asked whether he considered himself a progressive, he said he was a Democrat and an American.[158] According to the Humane Society, Booker has had the most pro-animal welfare voting record in the Senate year after year.[159]

Booker supports long-term deficit reduction efforts to ensure economic prosperity, cap and trade taxation to combat climate change, and increased funding for education.[160] He has spoken in favor of creating a federal job guarantee and baby bonds (low-risk savings accounts that minors get access to at age 18).[135] In the Senate, he has emphasized issues of racial and social justice.[135] He played a leading role in the push to pass the First Step Act, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill.[135] He supports ending the War on Drugs.[161] Booker supports abortion rights and affirmative action.[158][162][163] He also supports a single-payer health care plan: in September 2017, he joined Bernie Sanders and 14 other co-sponsors in submitting a single-payer health care plan to Congress called the "Medicare for All" bill.[164]

On foreign policy, Booker supports scaling down U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and opposes intervention in Syria.[165][166] After the US strike on Syria in April 2017, he criticized military action "without a clear plan" or authorization from Congress.[167] He supports a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Booker has stated that Iran poses a direct threat to American and Israeli security and feels all options should be on the table for dealing with the conflict,[165] but his decision to back the Iran nuclear deal framework[168] damaged his long-term relationship with some Jewish voters and supporters.[169] In an attempt to reduce the damage, he initiated an emergency summit for Jewish leaders, which some of his longstanding supporters did not attend.[168][169][170]

Despite his reputation as a progressive, progressives have criticized Booker on occasion.[171] In 2017, he voted against a proposal to lower prescription drug prices, which led to criticism that he was too dependent on corporate support.[172] In 2021, The American Prospect criticized Booker and Bob Menendez for recommending Christine O'Hearne to a federal judgeship after she had spent much of her career defending employers against discrimination and sexual harassment claims, and had defended a school against allegations that its swim coach had sexually abused a girl from ages 13 to 19.[173]

Other activities

Obama association

 
Booker campaigning in Newark for Barack Obama in 2007

In 2009, after Barack Obama became President of the United States, Booker was offered the leadership of the new White House Office of Urban Affairs. He turned the offer down, citing a commitment to Newark.[43]

 
Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Al Franken (D-MN), and Cory Booker (D-NJ)

Booker generated controversy on May 12, 2012, when he appeared on Meet The Press as a surrogate for Obama's reelection campaign and made remarks critical of that campaign.[174] Booker said that the attacks on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital were "nauseating to me on both sides. It's nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity. Stop attacking Jeremiah Wright."[174] The Romney campaign used the comments against Obama.[175] Booker made follow-up comments clarifying that he believed Obama's attacks on Romney's record at Bain were legitimate but did not retract his point about attacking private equity in general.[176] Two weeks later, Booker's communications director Anne Torres tendered her resignation, although she maintained it was unrelated to Meet the Press.[177]

Affiliations and honors

Booker sits on the board of advisers of the political action committee Democrats for Education Reform.[178] He is a member of the board of trustees at Teachers College, Columbia University and was formerly a member of the executive committee at Yale Law School and the board of trustees at Stanford University.

In 2010, Booker received the U.S. Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official, an award given out annually by the Jefferson Awards.[179]

 
Cory Booker and Michael Bennet (D-CO)
 
Cory Booker and Dan Sullivan (R-AK)

In May 2009, Booker received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the Newark-based New Jersey Institute of Technology for "his outstanding career in public service as the Mayor of Newark."[180] In May 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from Brandeis University and was a commencement speaker that year.[181] Booker received another honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in December 2010 from Yeshiva University for "his bold vision for Newark and setting a national standard for urban transformation."[182] In June 2011, Booker received an honorary doctor of laws degree for the urban transformation of Newark and served as that year's commencement speaker at Williams College.[183] In May 2012, Booker received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Bard College and gave the commencement speech.[184] In 2010, he delivered the commencement addresses at Pitzer College on May 15; at Columbia University's Teachers College on May 17; and at Suffolk University Law School on May 23. Booker gave the commencement address to New York Law School graduates on May 13, 2011, at Avery Fisher Hall (now David Geffen Hall) at Lincoln Center. He gave the commencement address at the University of Rhode Island in May 2011; he also received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.[185] He delivered a commencement address to Stanford University graduates on June 17, 2012, at Stanford Stadium.[186] He also received an honorary degree at Fairleigh Dickinson's 69th commencement ceremony in May 2012.[187]

In May 2013, Booker gave the commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis and received an honorary doctorate of law.[188]

On May 16, 2014, Booker gave the commencement speech at Ramapo College of New Jersey at the IZOD Center.[189]

During the 2016 presidential election, when Clinton had an illness described as pneumonia, Donna Brazile, the then-DNC interim chair considered that her ideal replacement ticket would consist of Biden and Booker. But the possibility of a divisive reaction and the possibility of "allowing Trump to capture votes in confusion" caused her to "not entertain any more thoughts of replacing Hillary."[190]

Films

Filmmaker Marshall Curry chronicled Booker's 2002 mayoral campaign in the documentary Street Fight. The film was nominated in 2005 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[191]

Since 2009, Booker has starred in the documentary series Brick City. The series focuses on Booker's efforts to improve Newark by reducing crime and bring about economic renewal. Brick City won a Peabody Award in 2009 and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2010.[192]

Booker contributed to the 2011 documentary Miss Representation and commented on the representations of women in politics in mass media.[193]

Booker appeared in a scene in the 2015 Parks and Recreation episode "Ms. Ludgate-Dwyer Goes to Washington" alongside Orrin Hatch.[194]

Conan O'Brien "feud"

In the fall of 2009, Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien engaged in a satirical on-air and YouTube feud with Booker, with O'Brien jokingly insulting Newark and Booker responding that he would ban O'Brien from the Newark airport.[195][196] Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the feud to end during a prepared comedy skit, telling Booker to chalk it up to a head injury O'Brien suffered less than two weeks earlier.[197] Booker then appeared on O'Brien's show and assured viewers that the feud was over and that he was actually a big fan of O'Brien, who agreed that every time he made a joke about Newark, he would donate $500 to the City of Newark, and also made a $50,000 donation to the Newark Now charity, which NBC Universal matched.[198]

Waywire

In 2012, Booker and tech executives Sarah Ross and Nathan Richardson formed Waywire, a company focused on video sharing technology.[199] Early investors included Oprah Winfrey, Eric Schmidt, Jeff Weiner, and Troy Carter.[199] After Booker's relationship to Waywire was discussed in a front-page New York Times story,[200] board member Andrew Zucker stepped down from his position.[201] Shortly thereafter, Waywire CEO Richardson departed the business as the company shifted its focus from content creation to content curation.[202] In August 2013, Booker told NBC News he intended to resign from the Waywire board and put his holdings in a trust if elected to the Senate;[203] by September, he had resigned from the board and donated his share of the company to charity.[204] Waywire was sold to another video curation business the next month.[205]

Book

In 2016, Booker wrote an autobiography, United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good.

In an article in HuffPost, Shmuly Yanklowitz said of the book:

If there is anything that Booker repeatedly returns to in United, it is that the myopia of contemporary politics leads citizens astray, and leaves them vulnerable to ignoring issues of tangible importance. "I believe that this broken system, which afflicts us all, will be repaired" writes Booker near the end of the book. To repeat an earlier point, what sets Senator Booker's work apart from that of similar political books is that it seeks to elevate discourse rather than bring down opponents of the opposite partisan persuasion.[206]

Personal life

 
Booker with longtime friend Gayle King, 2011

Booker regularly exercises and has been a vegetarian since 1992, when he was a student at Oxford University.[207] He abstains from alcohol and "has no known vices or addictions" other than coffee.[208][209] In 2014, Booker began practicing a vegan diet[210][207] and has expressed his vegan ethical philosophy and advocacy for animals.[211] As of June 2016, Booker worshiped at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Newark.[212]

In 1992, Booker recounted in his column for The Stanford Daily that as a 15-year-old kissing a friend on New Year's Eve, he reached for her breast, had his hand pushed away once and then "reached [his] 'mark.'" The column described Booker's changed attitudes towards sexual relations and how "skewed attitudes" lead to rape.[213] The Daily Caller and Fox News brought up the column during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings in September 2018.[214]

From 1998 to 2006, Booker lived in Brick Towers, a troubled housing complex in Newark's Central Ward. In November 2006, as one of the last remaining tenants in Brick Towers, Booker left his apartment for the top unit in a three-story rental on Hawthorne Avenue in Newark's South Ward, an area described as "a drug- and gang-plagued neighborhood of boarded-up houses and empty lots."[215] Brick Towers has since been demolished, and a new mixed-income development was built there in 2010.[216]

Since 2013, Booker has lived in a townhouse he owns in the Lincoln Park section of Newark's Central Ward, also known as "the Coast" for its arts, jazz, and nightlife history.[217]

Booker speaks Spanish; he attended a Spanish immersion program in Ecuador.[218][219][220]

In 2020, Booker learned that he and entertainer RuPaul are cousins, after both appeared on the TV show Finding Your Roots.[221]

In November 2022, Booker wrote a letter of support and leniency for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to the federal judge before her sentencing hearing. In the letter, Booker said that Holmes "holds onto the hope that she can make contributions to the lives of others and that she can, despite mistakes, make the world a better place."[222]

Relationships

Booker has never been married, and in 2013 he was named one of Town & Country's "Top 40 Bachelors".[209] Although he has generally tried to keep his personal life private, Booker has in the past referred to himself as a "straight male" and said that he is trying to date more in hopes of finding someone to settle down with.[223] He has been romantically linked to poet Cleo Wade.[224] In March 2019, actress Rosario Dawson confirmed to TMZ that she was in a relationship with Booker.[225] Their relationship ended in February 2022.[226][227]

In a 1992 column in The Stanford Daily, Booker admitted that as a teenager he had "hated gays."[228][229] He has himself been the target of rumors about being gay and has generally refused to address these on principle, as he explained in 2013:

Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, "So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight."[230][231]

Electoral history

2002 Newark mayoral election[232]
Party Candidate Votes %
nonpartisan Sharpe James (incumbent) 28,363 52.9
nonpartisan Cory Booker 24,869 46.5
nonpartisan Dwayne Smith 339 0.6
Total votes 53,571 100.0
2006 Newark mayoral election[233]
Party Candidate Votes %
nonpartisan Cory Booker 32,134 72.1
nonpartisan Ronald L. Rice 10,337 23.2
nonpartisan David Blount 1,831 4.1
nonpartisan Nancy Rosenstock 238 0.5
Total votes 44,540 100.0
2010 Newark mayoral election[234]
Party Candidate Votes %
nonpartisan Cory Booker (incumbent) 22,745 59.1
nonpartisan Clifford J. Minor 13,570 35.3
nonpartisan Yvonne Garrett Moore 1,703 4.4
nonpartisan Mirna L. White 444 1.2
Total votes 38,462 100.0
2013 United States Senate special election in New Jersey – Democratic primary[235]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Cory Booker 216,936 59.2 N/A
Democratic Frank Pallone 72,584 19.8 N/A
Democratic Rush Holt Jr. 61,463 16.8 N/A
Democratic Sheila Oliver 15,656 4.3 N/A
Majority 144,352 39.4 N/A
Turnout 7,276 N/A
2013 United States Senate special election in New Jersey[236]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Cory Booker 740,742 54.9 N/A
Republican Steve Lonegan 593,684 44.2 N/A
Ed the Barber Edward Stackhouse Jr. 5,138 0.4 N/A
Independent Robert DePasquale 3,137 0.2 N/A
Alimony Reform Now Stuart David Meissner 2,051 0.2 N/A
Unity is Strength Pablo Olivera 1,530 0.1 N/A
Freedom of Choice Antonio Nico Sabas 1,336 0.1 N/A
Democratic-Republican Eugene Martin Lavergne 1,041 0.08 N/A
Majority 147,058 10.9 N/A
Turnout 1,348,659 25 N/A
Swing to Democratic from Republican Swing
2014 United States Senate election in New Jersey[237]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Cory Booker (incumbent) 1,043,866 55.8 +0.9
Republican Jeff Bell 791,297 42.3 -1.7
Libertarian Joseph Baratelli 16,721 0.9 +0.4
Economic Growth Hank Schroeder 5,704 0.3 +0.3
Independent Jeff Boss 4,513 0.2 +0.2
Democratic-Republican Eugene Martin Lavergne 3,890 0.2 +0.1
Independent Antonio Nico Sabas 3,544 0.2 +0.12
Majority 252,569 13.5 +2.6
Turnout 1,869,535 34.2 +38.6
Democratic hold Swing
2020 United States Senate election in New Jersey – Democratic primary
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Cory Booker (incumbent) 366,105 89.4%
Democratic Lawrence Hamm 43,195 10.6%
Total votes 100.0%
2020 United States Senate election in New Jersey[238]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Cory Booker (incumbent) 2,541,178 57.23% +1.39%
Republican Rikin Mehta 1,817,052 40.92% -1.41%
Green Madelyn Hoffman 38,288 0.86% N/A
Independent Veronica Fernandez 32,290 0.73% N/A
Independent Daniel Burke 11,632 0.26% N/A
Total votes 4,440,440 100.0%
Democratic hold

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cory, booker, senator, booker, redirects, here, virginia, state, senate, member, marshall, booker, cory, anthony, booker, born, april, 1969, american, politician, attorney, served, junior, united, states, senator, from, jersey, since, 2013, member, democratic,. Senator Booker redirects here For the Virginia State Senate member see Marshall B Booker Cory Anthony Booker born April 27 1969 1 2 is an American politician and attorney who has served as the junior United States senator from New Jersey since 2013 A member of the Democratic Party Booker is the first African American U S senator from New Jersey He was the 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013 and served on the Municipal Council of Newark for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002 Cory BookerUnited States Senatorfrom New JerseyIncumbentAssumed office October 31 2013Serving with Bob MenendezPreceded byJeffrey Chiesa38th Mayor of NewarkIn office July 1 2006 October 31 2013Preceded bySharpe JamesSucceeded byLuis QuintanaMember of the Newark Municipal Councilfrom the Central WardIn office July 1 1998 June 30 2002Preceded byGeorge BranchSucceeded byCharles BellPersonal detailsBornCory Anthony Booker 1969 04 27 April 27 1969 age 53 Washington D C U S Political partyDemocraticDomestic partnerRosario Dawson 2019 2022 RelativesRuPaul cousin EducationStanford University BA MA Queen s College Oxford MA Yale University JD SignatureWebsiteSenate websiteCollege football careerStanford Cardinal No 81PositionTight endClass1991MajorPolitical sciencePersonal informationHeight6 ft 4 in 1 93 m Weight220 lb 100 kg Career historyBowl games1991 Aloha BowlHigh schoolNorthern Valley Regional High School at Old TappanCory Booker s voice source source Cory Booker speaks on Public DefendersRecorded March 16 2023Booker was born in Washington D C and raised in Harrington Park New Jersey He attended Stanford University receiving a BA in 1991 and a master s degree a year later He attended Queen s College Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship before attending Yale Law School He won an upset victory for a seat on the Municipal Council of Newark in 1998 staging a 10 day hunger strike and briefly living in a tent to draw attention to urban development issues in the city He ran for mayor in 2002 but lost to incumbent Sharpe James He ran again in 2006 and defeated Deputy Mayor Ronald Rice Booker s first term saw the doubling of affordable housing under development and the reduction of the city budget deficit from 180 million to 73 million He was reelected in 2010 He was elected to the U S Senate in a 2013 special election and reelected in 2014 and in 2020 Throughout his Senate tenure Booker has written sponsored and passed legislation advancing women s rights affirmative action same sex marriage and single payer healthcare He has pushed for economic reforms to address wealth inequality in the U S particularly the racial wealth gap Booker has pursued measures to reform the criminal justice system combat climate change and restructure national immigration policy In foreign policy he has voted successfully for tougher sanctions against Iran voiced support for the withdrawal of U S troops from Afghanistan and lobbied for increased diplomacy in the Middle East He was the first senator to ever testify against another senator during attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions s 2017 confirmation hearing Booker was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 U S presidential election suspending his campaign on January 13 2020 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Municipal Council of Newark 3 Mayor of Newark 3 1 Mayoral campaigns 3 1 1 2002 election 3 1 2 2006 election 3 1 3 2010 election 3 2 Tenure 3 2 1 First term 3 2 2 Second term 3 3 Public opinion polling 3 4 Legacy 4 U S Senate 4 1 Elections 4 1 1 2013 4 1 2 2014 4 1 3 2020 4 2 Tenure 4 3 Committee assignments 4 3 1 Current 4 3 2 Previous 4 4 Caucus memberships 5 2020 presidential campaign 6 Political positions 7 Other activities 7 1 Obama association 7 2 Affiliations and honors 7 3 Films 7 4 Conan O Brien feud 7 5 Waywire 7 6 Book 8 Personal life 8 1 Relationships 9 Electoral history 10 See also 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External linksEarly life and educationBooker was born in Washington D C he grew up in Harrington Park New Jersey 20 miles 32 km northeast of Newark 1 2 His parents Carolyn Rose nee Jordan and Cary Alfred Booker were among the first black IBM executives 2 3 4 Booker has said that he was raised in a religious household and that he and his family attended a small African Methodist Episcopal Church in New Jersey 5 Booker has Sierra Leonean ancestry which he learned when featured on the PBS television program Finding Your Roots 6 Booker graduated from Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan where he played varsity football and was named to the 1986 USA Today All USA high school football team He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1991 and a master of arts in sociology in 1992 He played football for Stanford at the position of tight end and was teammates with Brad Muster and Ed McCaffrey 7 making the All Pacific 10 Academic team He was elected senior class president 8 9 In addition Booker ran The Bridge Peer Counseling Center a student run crisis hotline and organized help from Stanford students for youth in East Palo Alto California 10 Booker was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Queen s College Oxford earning a degree in United States history in 1994 9 At Oxford Booker served as president of the Oxford University L Chaim Society 11 He obtained his Juris Doctor in 1997 from Yale Law School and operated free legal clinics for low income residents of New Haven Connecticut At Yale Booker was a founding member of the Chai Society now Shabtai 12 He also was a Big Brother with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and active in the National Black Law Students Association 13 Municipal Council of NewarkContemplating advocacy work and a run for city council in Newark after graduating from law school Booker lived in the city during his final year at Yale 14 After graduation he served as staff attorney for the Urban Justice Center in New York and program coordinator of the Newark Youth Project 15 In 1998 Booker won an upset victory for a seat on the Municipal Council of Newark defeating four term incumbent George Branch 16 To draw attention to the problems of open air drug dealing and associated violence he went on a 10 day hunger strike living in a tent and later in a motor home near drug dealing areas of the city 17 Booker also proposed council initiatives that affected housing young people law and order and the efficiency and transparency of City Hall but was regularly outvoted 18 Mayor of NewarkMayoral campaigns Cory Booker for Newark campaign sign 2002 election See also 2002 Newark mayoral election On January 9 2002 Booker announced his campaign for mayor of Newark rather than running for reelection as councilman 19 20 That pitted him against longtime incumbent Sharpe James James who had easily won election four consecutive times saw Booker as a real threat and responded with mudslinging At one campaign event James called him a Republican who took money from the KKK and Taliban who s collaborating with the Jews to take over Newark 21 In the campaign James s supporters questioned Booker s suburban background calling him a carpetbagger who was not black enough to understand the city 22 Booker lost the election garnering 47 of the vote to James s 53 20 The Oscar nominated documentary Street Fight chronicles the election 23 During the campaign Booker founded the nonprofit organization Newark Now 24 2006 election See also 2006 Newark mayoral election On February 11 2006 Booker announced that he would run for mayor again 25 Although James filed paperwork to run for reelection he announced shortly thereafter that he would instead cancel his bid to focus on his work as a state senator a position to which he was elected in 1999 26 At James s urging Deputy Mayor Ronald Rice decided to run for mayor 27 Booker s campaign raising over 6 million outspent Rice s 25 to 1 for which Rice attacked him Booker in turn attacked Rice as a political crony of James 28 29 Booker won the May 9 election with 72 of the vote His slate of city council candidates known as the Booker Team swept the council elections giving Booker firm leadership of the city government 30 2010 election See also 2010 Newark mayoral election On April 3 2010 Booker announced his candidacy for reelection At his announcement event he remarked that a united government was crucial to progress knowing his supporters in the city council faced tough reelections 31 Heavily favored to win Booker faced former judge and Essex County prosecutor Clifford J Minor and two minor candidates 32 33 Booker was reelected with 59 of the vote 34 Tenure Before taking office as mayor Booker sued the James administration seeking to terminate cut rate land deals favoring two redevelopment agencies that had contributed to James s campaigns and listed James as a member of their advisory boards Booker argued that the state s pay to play laws had been violated and that the land deals would cost the city more than 15 million in lost revenue Specifically Booker referenced a parcel at Broad and South Streets that would generate only 87 000 under the proposed land deals yet was valued at 3 7 million under then current market rates 35 On June 20 2006 Superior Court Judge Patricia Costello ruled in Booker s favor 36 In late June 2006 before Booker took office New Jersey investigators foiled a plot to assassinate him led by Bloods gang leaders inside four New Jersey state prisons The motive for the plot was unclear but was described variously as a response to the acrimonious campaign 37 and to Booker s campaign promises to take a harder line on crime 37 First term Booker at a fundraiser with New York County District Attorney candidate Cyrus Vance Jr in 2009 Booker took office as mayor of Newark on July 1 2006 38 39 40 After his first week in office he announced a 100 day plan to implement reforms The proposed changes included increasing police forces ending background checks for many city jobs to help former offenders find employment in the city refurbishing police stations improving city services and expanding summer youth programs 41 One of Booker s first priorities was to reduce the city s crime rate In furtherance of this he appointed former deputy commissioner of operations of the New York City Police Department Garry McCarthy director of the Newark Police Department 42 Crime reduction was such a central concern of Booker s administration that he and his security team were known to personally patrol the Newark s streets until as late as 4 a m 43 Booker was a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition 44 a bipartisan group with a stated goal of making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets In October 2009 the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence gave him the Sarah Brady Visionary Award for his work in reducing gun violence 45 During his mayoralty crime dropped significantly in Newark which led the nation in violent crime reduction from 2006 to 2008 43 March 2010 marked Newark s first murder free month in over 44 years 46 although murder and overall crime rates began to rise again after 2008 47 In addition to his crime lowering initiatives Booker doubled the amount of affordable housing under development and quadrupled the amount under pre development and reduced the city budget deficit from 180 million to 73 million 48 49 50 After taking office Booker voluntarily reduced his own salary twice first by 8 early in his first year as mayor 51 He also raised the salaries of many city workers 43 But his administration imposed one day a month furloughs for all non uniformed employees from July through December 2010 as well as 2 pay cuts for managers and directors earning more than 100 000 a year 52 In 2008 and 2009 the City of Newark received the Government Finance Officers Association s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award 53 54 In an effort to make government more accessible Booker held regular open office hours during which city residents could meet with him to discuss their concerns 55 In 2010 Booker was among the finalists for the World Mayor prize ultimately placing seventh 56 he was also an unsuccessful candidate for the 2012 award 57 In March 2010 Booker won a Shorty Award in the government category for having the best microblog 58 In July 2010 Booker attended a dinner at a conference in Sun Valley Idaho where he was seated with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg 59 Zuckerberg who had no known ties to Newark announced in September 2010 that he was donating 100 million to the Newark school system According to The New York Times Booker and Zuckerberg continued their conversation about Booker s plans for Newark 60 The initial gift was made to start a foundation for education The gift was formally announced when Booker New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Zuckerberg appeared together on The Oprah Winfrey Show 61 Some considered the timing of Zuckerberg s donation a move for damage control to his image as it was announced on the opening day of the movie The Social Network a film that painted an unflattering portrait of Zuckerberg But on her show Winfrey told the audience that Zuckerberg and Booker had been in talks for months had planned the announcement for the month before and that she and Booker had to force Zuckerberg to put his name on the donation which he had wanted to make anonymously 62 On October 10 2010 Booker established Let s Move Newark as part of First Lady Michelle Obama s national Let s Move initiative against childhood obesity 63 Booker gained national attention on December 28 2010 when a constituent asked him on Twitter to send someone to her elderly father s house to shovel his driveway because he was about to attempt to do it himself Booker responded by tweeting I will do it myself where does he live Other people volunteered including one person who offered his help on Twitter and 20 minutes later Booker and some volunteers showed up and shoveled the man s driveway 64 65 Second term In October 2011 Booker expanded the Let s Move Newark program to include Let s Move Newark Our Power a four month fitness challenge for Newark public school students run by public health advocate Jeff Halevy 66 On April 12 2012 Booker saved a woman from a house fire suffering smoke inhalation and second degree burns on his hands in the process Newark Fire Chief John Centanni said that Booker s actions possibly saved the woman s life 67 After Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of New Jersey s and New York s shoreline areas in late October 2012 Booker invited Newarkers without electrictiy and similar services to eat and sleep in his home 68 In February 2013 responding to a Twitter post Booker helped a nervous constituent propose to his girlfriend 69 Booker rescued a dog from freezing temperatures in January 2013 and another dog that had been abandoned in a cage in July 2013 70 71 On November 20 2012 a melee occurred at a Newark City Council meeting Booker attended 72 The nine seat council was to vote on the successor to the seat vacated by newly elected U S Representative Donald M Payne Jr Booker s opponents on the council including Ras Baraka sought to appoint John Sharpe James son of former mayor Sharpe James while Booker and his supporters favored Shanique Speight Booker attended the meeting to deal with the eventuality of the lack of a quorum or a tie vote in which state law would allow him to cast a deciding vote After acting Council President Anibal Ramos Jr refused Baraka an opportunity to address the council Baraka and two other council members walked away in protest Booker cast the deciding vote for Speight Supporters of James stormed the stage and were held back by riot police who eventually used pepper spray on some members of the crowd 73 Baraka later blamed Booker for inciting the disturbance Booker refused to comment to the media after the vote 72 73 In December 2012 after discussions with a constituent about New Jersey s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP Booker began a weeklong challenge attempting to live on a food budget of 30 per week the amount he said that New Jersey paid SNAP recipients 74 When critics noted that the very name of the SNAP program shows that it is intended to supplement an individual s food budget not be its sole source Booker replied that his aim was to spark a discussion about the reality that many Americans rely solely on food stamps to survive 75 Public opinion polling Throughout Booker s mayoralty Fairleigh Dickinson University s public opinion poll PublicMind asked New Jersey residents whether they had heard of Booker and whether they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him The results were September 2008 76 Name recognition 56 Favorable opinion 32 Unfavorable opinion 8 April 2009 77 Name recognition 62 Favorable opinion 39 Unfavorable opinion 10 May 2010 78 Name recognition 66 Favorable opinion 42 Unfavorable opinion 6 May 2012 79 Name recognition 67 Favorable opinion 47 Unfavorable opinion 6 January 2013 80 Name recognition 75 Favorable opinion 66 Unfavorable opinion 13 March 2014 81 Name recognition 88 Favorable opinion 47 Unfavorable opinion 23 Legacy Booker s mayoralty and celebrity drew substantial media attention to Newark While he had high ratings from Newarkers his legacy has received mixed reviews During his tenure millions of dollars were invested in downtown development but underemployment and high murder rates continue to characterize many of the city s neighborhoods 82 83 84 Despite legal challenges initiated during his term Newark Public Schools remained under state control for nearly 20 years 85 Newark received 32 million in emergency state aid in 2011 and 2012 requiring a memorandum of understanding between Newark and the state that obligated the city to request and the state to approve appointments to City Hall administrative positions 86 While mayor Booker claimed in an interview that Newark s unemployment rate had fallen by two percentage points 87 PolitiFact rated the claim false because he used data that had not been seasonally adjusted the adjusted rate was 0 7 percentage points 87 U S SenateElections 2013 Main article 2013 United States Senate special election in New Jersey Booker s swearing in as Senator with his mother and Vice President Joe Biden Booker in 2014 On December 20 2012 Booker announced that he would explore running for the U S Senate seat then occupied by Frank Lautenberg in the 2014 election ending speculation that he would challenge Governor Chris Christie in the 2013 gubernatorial election 88 On January 11 2013 Booker filed papers to form a campaign committee 89 without announcing whether he would run 90 About a month later Lautenberg then 89 years old announced that he would not seek reelection in 2014 91 On June 3 Lautenberg died of viral pneumonia five days later Booker announced his intention to run for Lautenberg s seat in a 2013 special election Booker announced his candidacy at two events one in Newark and the other in Willingboro 92 On August 13 2013 Booker was declared the winner of the Democratic primary with approximately 59 of the vote On October 16 he defeated Republican Steve Lonegan in the general election 54 9 to 44 0 93 Booker was the first African American to be elected to the Senate since Barack Obama in 2004 94 95 96 97 The night before his victory he visited the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem M Schneerson offering prayers and lighting a vigil candle in memory of his father 98 99 Booker resigned as mayor of Newark on October 30 100 and on October 31 was sworn in as the junior U S senator from New Jersey 101 He is the first African American U S senator from New Jersey 94 95 96 97 2014 Main article 2014 United States Senate election in New Jersey On January 9 2014 Brian D Goldberg a West Orange resident and New Jersey businessman announced that he would seek the Republican nomination for U S Senate 102 On January 27 2014 Freehold Township businessman Richard J Rich Pezzullo announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination Pezzullo had run for the US Senate in 1996 as the Conservative Party candidate 103 On February 4 2014 conservative political consultant Jeff Bell announced his bid for the nomination Bell was the Republican Party nominee for U S Senate in 1978 104 Ramapo College professor Murray Sabrin who ran for the Senate in 2000 and 2008 announced his candidacy on February 13 105 Bell won the Republican primary and received support from the conservative American Principles Fund which ran a direct mail operation costing over 80 000 and the National Organization for Marriage an organization opposing same sex marriage which paid for 6 000 of automated calling 106 Booker defeated Bell in the general election with 55 8 of the vote to Bell s 42 4 107 2020 Main article 2020 United States Senate election in New Jersey In his reelection campaign Booker faced Republican nominee Rik Mehta a pharmaceutical executive and attorney 108 The election was primarily conducted by mail in ballots as mandated by Governor Phil Murphy in response to the COVID 19 pandemic 109 Booker and Mehta participated in a virtual debate sponsored by the New Jersey Globe in which they sparred over issues including the Trump presidency COVID 19 lockdowns the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court and systemic racism 110 111 In the November 3 general election Booker defeated Mehta 57 41 112 Tenure Booker with Judge Merrick Garland 2016 In November 2013 Booker co sponsored and voted for the Employment Non Discrimination Act 113 In December 2013 he was one of the original cosponsors of Bob Menendez s Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013 which would toughen sanctions against Iran 114 He also voted for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 115 and the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 116 In January 2014 he cosponsored the Respect for Marriage Act 117 In February 2014 Booker voted against the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 118 In March Booker pledged to meet with each of his Republican colleagues in the Senate in order to find common ground and was spotted having dinner with Senator Ted Cruz in Washington 119 Leading up to the 2016 presidential election Booker endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination He was considered a potential vice presidential candidate during the primary and as the general election began though he said on June 16 that he was not being vetted 120 After the election in which Donald Trump defeated Clinton Booker testified on January 11 2017 against Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions the first instance of a sitting senator testifying against another during a cabinet position confirmation hearing 121 Booker supported fellow New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez when Menendez faced trial on federal corruption and bribery charges During the trial Booker was a character witness for Menendez giving him effusive praise 122 After the judge declared a mistrial Booker argued that prosecutors ought not to take Menendez to trial again 123 When Menendez ran for reelection Booker praised Menendez saying he was so grateful for Bob Menendez and that I get to work with him and stand beside him 124 Booker downplayed the corruption allegations saying to try to continue to try to throw this kind of mud at him it s not going to stick It didn t stick when the government tried to do it and it should not stick now 125 In 2018 Politico named Booker part of the Hell No Caucus along with Senators Kamala Harris Kirsten Gillibrand Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders after he voted overwhelmingly to thwart his Trump s nominees for administration jobs including Rex Tillerson Betsy De Vos and Mike Pompeo all the senators on the list were considered potential 2020 presidential contenders 126 In April 2018 after the FBI raided the hotel room and offices of Trump s personal attorney Michael Cohen Booker Chris Coons Lindsey Graham and Thom Tillis introduced new legislation to limit President Trump s ability to fire special counsel Robert Mueller Termed the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act the legislation would allow any special counsel in this case Mueller to receive an expedited judicial review in the 10 days following being dismissed to determine if said dismissal was suitable If not the special counsel would be reinstated At the same time according to The Hill the bill would codify regulations that a special counsel could be fired by only a senior Justice Department official while having to provide reasons in writing 127 On September 5 2018 during the Senate Judiciary Committee s confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh nominated by Trump to replace retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court Booker questioned Kavanaugh on a series of emails marked committee confidential dating to Kavanaugh s time in the office of the White House Counsel during George W Bush s presidency The emails which Booker s office released to the public the next day show Kavanaugh and others in the Counsel s office discussing racial profiling as a means to combat terrorism particularly after 9 11 Booker said that he was violating Senate rules in releasing the documents with the penalty including possible expulsion from the Senate he nonetheless defended his decision referring to the process of producing documents for the hearing as a sham and challenging those who warned him about the consequences to bring it on 128 129 Booker also described the release as probably the closest I ll ever have in my life to an I am Spartacus moment referring to a line in the 1960 film Spartacus 130 131 Committee chairman Chuck Grassley said the documents had already been cleared for public release the night before and that Booker was not violating any rules leading some Republicans to accuse Booker of engaging in theatrics and histrionics 132 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas mocked Booker in comments the following week saying Honorable if we could use that word about more people who are in public life people who actually ask the questions at confirmation hearings instead of Spartacus 133 Booker was also one of several Democratic lawmakers and critics of President Trump who was targeted with a mailed pipe bomb 134 Booker played a leading role in the push to pass the First Step Act a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill 135 He has introduced the Marijuana Justice Act which would legalize cannabis in the United States on the federal level defund some law enforcement in jurisdictions that have shown racial bias in marijuana arrests and increase funding to communities affected by the war on drugs 136 137 Booker announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president in the 2020 election on February 1 2019 138 Booker meeting with President Biden Booker was participating in the certification of the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count on January 6 2021 when Trump supporters stormed the U S Capitol Minutes after rioters breached the Capitol Booker and his fellow senators were evacuated from the chambers 139 Booker blamed Trump for inciting the attack 140 141 After the attack Booker called for the invocation of the Twenty fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and or impeachment to remove Trump 142 Committee assignments Current Committee on Agriculture Nutrition and Forestry 2021 present 143 Subcommittee on Conservation Climate Forestry and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition Specialty Crops Organics and Research Chair Subcommittee on Livestock Dairy Poultry Local Food Systems and Food Safety and Security Committee on Foreign Relations 2017 present Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy Subcommittee on Multilateral International Development Multilateral Institutions and International Economic Energy and Environmental Policy Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management International Operations and Bilateral International Development Ranking Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee on the Judiciary 2018 present Subcommittee on Antitrust Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration Subcommittee on Crime and TerrorismPrevious Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation 2013 2018 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 2015 2017 Committee on Environment and Public Works 2013 2021 Caucus memberships Congressional Black Caucus 144 Congressional NextGen 9 1 1 Caucus 145 2020 presidential campaign Logo for Booker s presidential campaign Booker campaigning for president in San Francisco California Main article Cory Booker 2020 presidential campaign On February 1 2019 Booker announced his campaign for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 presidential election Before his announcement it was widely speculated that he would run for president but he expressed uncertainty about it 146 Within a month after Booker announced his candidacy Governor Phil Murphy 147 Bob Menendez 148 and every Democratic member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey endorsed him 149 Booker held a campaign kickoff rally in Newark on April 13 150 After qualifying for the first five Democratic Party presidential debates he failed to meet the polling thresholds to participate in the sixth debate in December 2019 151 On January 13 2020 Booker announced that he was suspending his campaign 152 In March 2020 Booker endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president 153 Political positionsMain article Political positions of Cory Booker Booker has been called a liberal and progressive Democrat 154 155 As a senator he has a liberal voting record 135 156 In a July 2013 Salon interview Booker said there s nothing in that realm of progressive politics where you won t find me 157 In a September 2013 interview with The Grio when asked whether he considered himself a progressive he said he was a Democrat and an American 158 According to the Humane Society Booker has had the most pro animal welfare voting record in the Senate year after year 159 Booker supports long term deficit reduction efforts to ensure economic prosperity cap and trade taxation to combat climate change and increased funding for education 160 He has spoken in favor of creating a federal job guarantee and baby bonds low risk savings accounts that minors get access to at age 18 135 In the Senate he has emphasized issues of racial and social justice 135 He played a leading role in the push to pass the First Step Act a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill 135 He supports ending the War on Drugs 161 Booker supports abortion rights and affirmative action 158 162 163 He also supports a single payer health care plan in September 2017 he joined Bernie Sanders and 14 other co sponsors in submitting a single payer health care plan to Congress called the Medicare for All bill 164 On foreign policy Booker supports scaling down U S involvement in Afghanistan and opposes intervention in Syria 165 166 After the US strike on Syria in April 2017 he criticized military action without a clear plan or authorization from Congress 167 He supports a two state solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict Booker has stated that Iran poses a direct threat to American and Israeli security and feels all options should be on the table for dealing with the conflict 165 but his decision to back the Iran nuclear deal framework 168 damaged his long term relationship with some Jewish voters and supporters 169 In an attempt to reduce the damage he initiated an emergency summit for Jewish leaders which some of his longstanding supporters did not attend 168 169 170 Despite his reputation as a progressive progressives have criticized Booker on occasion 171 In 2017 he voted against a proposal to lower prescription drug prices which led to criticism that he was too dependent on corporate support 172 In 2021 The American Prospect criticized Booker and Bob Menendez for recommending Christine O Hearne to a federal judgeship after she had spent much of her career defending employers against discrimination and sexual harassment claims and had defended a school against allegations that its swim coach had sexually abused a girl from ages 13 to 19 173 Other activitiesObama association Booker campaigning in Newark for Barack Obama in 2007 In 2009 after Barack Obama became President of the United States Booker was offered the leadership of the new White House Office of Urban Affairs He turned the offer down citing a commitment to Newark 43 Tammy Duckworth D IL Al Franken D MN and Cory Booker D NJ Booker generated controversy on May 12 2012 when he appeared on Meet The Press as a surrogate for Obama s reelection campaign and made remarks critical of that campaign 174 Booker said that the attacks on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney s record at Bain Capital were nauseating to me on both sides It s nauseating to the American public Enough is enough Stop attacking private equity Stop attacking Jeremiah Wright 174 The Romney campaign used the comments against Obama 175 Booker made follow up comments clarifying that he believed Obama s attacks on Romney s record at Bain were legitimate but did not retract his point about attacking private equity in general 176 Two weeks later Booker s communications director Anne Torres tendered her resignation although she maintained it was unrelated to Meet the Press 177 Affiliations and honors Booker sits on the board of advisers of the political action committee Democrats for Education Reform 178 He is a member of the board of trustees at Teachers College Columbia University and was formerly a member of the executive committee at Yale Law School and the board of trustees at Stanford University In 2010 Booker received the U S Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official an award given out annually by the Jefferson Awards 179 Cory Booker and Michael Bennet D CO Cory Booker and Dan Sullivan R AK In May 2009 Booker received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the Newark based New Jersey Institute of Technology for his outstanding career in public service as the Mayor of Newark 180 In May 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from Brandeis University and was a commencement speaker that year 181 Booker received another honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in December 2010 from Yeshiva University for his bold vision for Newark and setting a national standard for urban transformation 182 In June 2011 Booker received an honorary doctor of laws degree for the urban transformation of Newark and served as that year s commencement speaker at Williams College 183 In May 2012 Booker received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Bard College and gave the commencement speech 184 In 2010 he delivered the commencement addresses at Pitzer College on May 15 at Columbia University s Teachers College on May 17 and at Suffolk University Law School on May 23 Booker gave the commencement address to New York Law School graduates on May 13 2011 at Avery Fisher Hall now David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center He gave the commencement address at the University of Rhode Island in May 2011 he also received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree 185 He delivered a commencement address to Stanford University graduates on June 17 2012 at Stanford Stadium 186 He also received an honorary degree at Fairleigh Dickinson s 69th commencement ceremony in May 2012 187 In May 2013 Booker gave the commencement address at Washington University in St Louis and received an honorary doctorate of law 188 On May 16 2014 Booker gave the commencement speech at Ramapo College of New Jersey at the IZOD Center 189 During the 2016 presidential election when Clinton had an illness described as pneumonia Donna Brazile the then DNC interim chair considered that her ideal replacement ticket would consist of Biden and Booker But the possibility of a divisive reaction and the possibility of allowing Trump to capture votes in confusion caused her to not entertain any more thoughts of replacing Hillary 190 Films Filmmaker Marshall Curry chronicled Booker s 2002 mayoral campaign in the documentary Street Fight The film was nominated in 2005 for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature 191 Since 2009 Booker has starred in the documentary series Brick City The series focuses on Booker s efforts to improve Newark by reducing crime and bring about economic renewal Brick City won a Peabody Award in 2009 and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2010 192 Booker contributed to the 2011 documentary Miss Representation and commented on the representations of women in politics in mass media 193 Booker appeared in a scene in the 2015 Parks and Recreation episode Ms Ludgate Dwyer Goes to Washington alongside Orrin Hatch 194 Conan O Brien feud In the fall of 2009 Tonight Show host Conan O Brien engaged in a satirical on air and YouTube feud with Booker with O Brien jokingly insulting Newark and Booker responding that he would ban O Brien from the Newark airport 195 196 Then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the feud to end during a prepared comedy skit telling Booker to chalk it up to a head injury O Brien suffered less than two weeks earlier 197 Booker then appeared on O Brien s show and assured viewers that the feud was over and that he was actually a big fan of O Brien who agreed that every time he made a joke about Newark he would donate 500 to the City of Newark and also made a 50 000 donation to the Newark Now charity which NBC Universal matched 198 Waywire In 2012 Booker and tech executives Sarah Ross and Nathan Richardson formed Waywire a company focused on video sharing technology 199 Early investors included Oprah Winfrey Eric Schmidt Jeff Weiner and Troy Carter 199 After Booker s relationship to Waywire was discussed in a front page New York Times story 200 board member Andrew Zucker stepped down from his position 201 Shortly thereafter Waywire CEO Richardson departed the business as the company shifted its focus from content creation to content curation 202 In August 2013 Booker told NBC News he intended to resign from the Waywire board and put his holdings in a trust if elected to the Senate 203 by September he had resigned from the board and donated his share of the company to charity 204 Waywire was sold to another video curation business the next month 205 Book In 2016 Booker wrote an autobiography United Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good In an article in HuffPost Shmuly Yanklowitz said of the book If there is anything that Booker repeatedly returns to in United it is that the myopia of contemporary politics leads citizens astray and leaves them vulnerable to ignoring issues of tangible importance I believe that this broken system which afflicts us all will be repaired writes Booker near the end of the book To repeat an earlier point what sets Senator Booker s work apart from that of similar political books is that it seeks to elevate discourse rather than bring down opponents of the opposite partisan persuasion 206 Personal life Booker with longtime friend Gayle King 2011 Booker regularly exercises and has been a vegetarian since 1992 when he was a student at Oxford University 207 He abstains from alcohol and has no known vices or addictions other than coffee 208 209 In 2014 Booker began practicing a vegan diet 210 207 and has expressed his vegan ethical philosophy and advocacy for animals 211 As of June 2016 Booker worshiped at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Newark 212 In 1992 Booker recounted in his column for The Stanford Daily that as a 15 year old kissing a friend on New Year s Eve he reached for her breast had his hand pushed away once and then reached his mark The column described Booker s changed attitudes towards sexual relations and how skewed attitudes lead to rape 213 The Daily Caller and Fox News brought up the column during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings in September 2018 214 From 1998 to 2006 Booker lived in Brick Towers a troubled housing complex in Newark s Central Ward In November 2006 as one of the last remaining tenants in Brick Towers Booker left his apartment for the top unit in a three story rental on Hawthorne Avenue in Newark s South Ward an area described as a drug and gang plagued neighborhood of boarded up houses and empty lots 215 Brick Towers has since been demolished and a new mixed income development was built there in 2010 216 Since 2013 Booker has lived in a townhouse he owns in the Lincoln Park section of Newark s Central Ward also known as the Coast for its arts jazz and nightlife history 217 Booker speaks Spanish he attended a Spanish immersion program in Ecuador 218 219 220 In 2020 Booker learned that he and entertainer RuPaul are cousins after both appeared on the TV show Finding Your Roots 221 In November 2022 Booker wrote a letter of support and leniency for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to the federal judge before her sentencing hearing In the letter Booker said that Holmes holds onto the hope that she can make contributions to the lives of others and that she can despite mistakes make the world a better place 222 Relationships Booker has never been married and in 2013 he was named one of Town amp Country s Top 40 Bachelors 209 Although he has generally tried to keep his personal life private Booker has in the past referred to himself as a straight male and said that he is trying to date more in hopes of finding someone to settle down with 223 He has been romantically linked to poet Cleo Wade 224 In March 2019 actress Rosario Dawson confirmed to TMZ that she was in a relationship with Booker 225 Their relationship ended in February 2022 226 227 In a 1992 column in The Stanford Daily Booker admitted that as a teenager he had hated gays 228 229 He has himself been the target of rumors about being gay and has generally refused to address these on principle as he explained in 2013 Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I m gay and I say So what does it matter if I am So be it I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I m straight 230 231 Electoral history2002 Newark mayoral election 232 Party Candidate Votes nonpartisan Sharpe James incumbent 28 363 52 9nonpartisan Cory Booker 24 869 46 5nonpartisan Dwayne Smith 339 0 6Total votes 53 571 100 02006 Newark mayoral election 233 Party Candidate Votes nonpartisan Cory Booker 32 134 72 1nonpartisan Ronald L Rice 10 337 23 2nonpartisan David Blount 1 831 4 1nonpartisan Nancy Rosenstock 238 0 5Total votes 44 540 100 02010 Newark mayoral election 234 Party Candidate Votes nonpartisan Cory Booker incumbent 22 745 59 1nonpartisan Clifford J Minor 13 570 35 3nonpartisan Yvonne Garrett Moore 1 703 4 4nonpartisan Mirna L White 444 1 2Total votes 38 462 100 02013 United States Senate special election in New Jersey Democratic primary 235 Party Candidate Votes Democratic Cory Booker 216 936 59 2 N ADemocratic Frank Pallone 72 584 19 8 N ADemocratic Rush Holt Jr 61 463 16 8 N ADemocratic Sheila Oliver 15 656 4 3 N AMajority 144 352 39 4 N ATurnout 7 276 N A2013 United States Senate special election in New Jersey 236 Party Candidate Votes Democratic Cory Booker 740 742 54 9 N ARepublican Steve Lonegan 593 684 44 2 N AEd the Barber Edward Stackhouse Jr 5 138 0 4 N AIndependent Robert DePasquale 3 137 0 2 N AAlimony Reform Now Stuart David Meissner 2 051 0 2 N AUnity is Strength Pablo Olivera 1 530 0 1 N AFreedom of Choice Antonio Nico Sabas 1 336 0 1 N ADemocratic Republican Eugene Martin Lavergne 1 041 0 08 N AMajority 147 058 10 9 N ATurnout 1 348 659 25 N ASwing to Democratic from Republican Swing2014 United States Senate election in New Jersey 237 Party Candidate Votes Democratic Cory Booker incumbent 1 043 866 55 8 0 9Republican Jeff Bell 791 297 42 3 1 7Libertarian Joseph Baratelli 16 721 0 9 0 4Economic Growth Hank Schroeder 5 704 0 3 0 3Independent Jeff Boss 4 513 0 2 0 2Democratic Republican Eugene Martin Lavergne 3 890 0 2 0 1Independent Antonio Nico Sabas 3 544 0 2 0 12Majority 252 569 13 5 2 6Turnout 1 869 535 34 2 38 6Democratic hold Swing2020 United States Senate election in New Jersey Democratic primary Party Candidate Votes Democratic Cory Booker incumbent 366 105 89 4 Democratic Lawrence Hamm 43 195 10 6 Total votes 100 0 2020 United States Senate election in New Jersey 238 Party Candidate Votes Democratic Cory Booker incumbent 2 541 178 57 23 1 39 Republican Rikin Mehta 1 817 052 40 92 1 41 Green Madelyn Hoffman 38 288 0 86 N AIndependent Veronica Fernandez 32 290 0 73 N AIndependent Daniel Burke 11 632 0 26 N ATotal votes 4 440 440 100 0 Democratic holdSee alsoBarack Obama Supreme Court candidates List of African American United States senatorsReferences a b 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February 2019 Cory Booker on Animal Rights Veganism and How to Change the World VegNews Interview Interviewed by Jasmin Singer Retrieved March 13 2019 I finally just made a decision that I was going to become vegan I remember my last non vegan meal was Election Day November 2014 Dolmage Jaimi January 5 2015 NY Post Thinks Cory Booker is an Animal Rights Extremist Because he Eats Vegan Food One Green Planet New York City Retrieved December 8 2015 Pathe Simone June 6 2016 Cory Booker s At Home Preaching the Clinton Gospel Roll Call Archived from the original on October 22 2019 Retrieved December 29 2018 Booker Cory February 19 1992 So much for stealing second Vol 201 no 12 The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation Retrieved December 19 2018 Stanley Becker Isaac September 21 2018 In 1992 Cory Booker wrote of groping a high school friend as they fumbled upon a bed and issued a call for sexual respect The Washington Post Retrieved December 19 2018 Frankston Lorin Janet November 24 2006 Mayor moves to tough Newark area The Philadelphia Inquirer Mays Jeffery C July 20 2008 Razed Brick Towers no longer is a symbol of poverty The Star Ledger Newark New Jersey Retrieved April 6 2012 Cramer Ruby October 14 2013 Cory Booker Yes I Live In Newark BuzzFeed News Retrieved February 15 2019 Siddiqui Sabrina Walters Joanna February 1 2019 Democratic senator announces presidential bid The Guardian Retrieved March 7 2019 Chiu Allyson June 27 2019 He s running for embarrassing dad at a Mexican restaurant Democrats debate in Spanish to mixed reviews The Washington Post Retrieved September 10 2019 Cory Booker El trabajo de Trump en Puerto Rico no ha sido perfecto YouTube Univision Noticias Archived from the original on October 30 2021 Retrieved July 29 2019 See RuPaul and Cory Booker react to finding out they re cousins CNN October 29 2020 Muldowney Decca November 13 2022 Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Gets Surprise Support from Sen Cory Booker The Daily Beast Retrieved November 18 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