Cory Booker talks jobs, health care in Waterloo

WATERLOO — Presidential hopeful and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker met with Waterloo community leaders and college students in his first visit to the city as a presidential candidate Friday.

More than 100 people came to a community round table with the Democrat from New Jersey at Hawkeye Community College’s Van G. Miller Adult Learning Center.

Health care and jobs were Booker’s biggest discussion points. During his time with students, Booker also pledged to not take any corporate campaign donations.

“This presidential campaign will not take corporate PAC (political action committee) dollars, it’s not going to take lobbyist dollars, I’m not taking money from pharma execs,” Booker said. “We’re going to show that we can run this campaign on the power of people, because the power of people is always greater than the people in power.”

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