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In reply to the discussion: US Sen. Cory Booker Refuses to Endorse Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor [View all]
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(316,620 posts)338. Wow.. Problem is.. "republcans" are A Cult Now and
Run by a Pedo Rapist, Racist, Felon, Traitor and Psychopathic Liar..
No Excuses for hat. 
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but not unexpected -- Booker's campaigns were greatly assisted by Jewish power brokers (Shmuley, Boteach)
cadoman
Aug 2025
#106
You'll be sad to see that Booker has promised to work every day on the Virginia Attorney General race
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#264
I sure as hell hope he wouldn't support Jones when he's running against another Democrat, and then ignore him
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#270
Well, one DUer said "His time for electioneering needs to be focused on the people of NJ."
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#344
"His time for electioneering needs to be focused on the people of NJ" is not longer operative, then?
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#345
Any moment now someone's going to stop saying "AIPAC" and say "It's all about the Benjamins"...
Hekate
Aug 2025
#380
Hurray for the UUs. 😉 When we finally tied the knot, we went to the UU minister, and my 2 kids...
Hekate
Aug 2025
#383
+1. But it would have to be a singular master of statecraft with the intelligence, astuteness and charisma
vanessa_ca
Aug 2025
#134
OK so. If I remember correctly (sure to be corrected) Cory used to be similarly dismissed back when.
UTUSN
Aug 2025
#2
NYC'r. I've hung out in Bergan County for over 60 yrs. Good Luck to my Neighbor State NJ! Stay Blue!
electric_blue68
Aug 2025
#292
So supporting the Democratic nominee for a city that's directly tied to millions of your own voters is the 'okey-doke'?
Celerity
Aug 2025
#19
FFS, all he said was, "I have learned a long time ago, to let New York politics be New York politics.
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#28
I don't hate Booker at all. I DO hate Trump, who's now in direct contact w/ serial sexual harasser/sore loser Cuomo
Celerity
Aug 2025
#30
I am not 'bashing' Booker at all. That is a flat out false frame you are trying to construct.
Celerity
Aug 2025
#33
That is a ridiculously false leap and a personal smear of me to say I am implying Booker is a 'traitor'. To disagree
Celerity
Aug 2025
#42
You are way out of bounds with your multiple false smears of me, falsely trying to
Celerity
Aug 2025
#55
I said NYC, which is right across the Hudson River from NJ and immensely linked to NJ at a multiplicity of levels is
Celerity
Aug 2025
#62
I can see why you're feeling defensive, but you got yourself well into the mix. Yardwork is right.
Hekate
Aug 2025
#242
endorsements from outside Senators are extremely rare -- just Sanders in 2017 by my count
cadoman
Aug 2025
#110
Hmmm. Trump is inserting himself into NYC mayoral politics, so there is definitely one person who benefits...
Hekate
Aug 2025
#234
Note that Booker is African American and Mamdani is African American and Muslim.
yardwork
Aug 2025
#237
Yes there is & they're hardly being bothered with "coding. " Looks like NYC mayoral race is a proxy war...
Hekate
Aug 2025
#253
Not supporting Democratic candidates in general elections only helps Trump
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#64
I don't understand why "are you going to support him?" can't just be answered with "yes"
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#163
Which is my point. Mamdani does indeed have a good chance of winning his NYC race.
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#343
Booker, who endorsed a Republican Independent, and"reached out" to Adams
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#346
He endorsed Bloomberg when they were both mayors working to pass gun safety laws together.
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#348
Numerous people in this thread have bullshitted about Booker chickening out of supporting a Democrat
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#349
Numerous people in this thread have "bullshitted" as you put it, but it wasn't the Booker supporters.
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#350
1hank you. Divisive myths of Establishment vs Progressive, the Age Wars, slandering Dems as corrupt,
betsuni
Aug 2025
#40
Your open approval of a major Democrat refusing to support the Dem mayoral nominee in a contentious race is telling.
Celerity
Aug 2025
#22
The same people who haven't shut up for ten years about an actress not endorsing their beloved candidate are now ok...
Hassin Bin Sober
Aug 2025
#25
Your open bashing of a Democratic Senator is telling. Mamdani has a double digit polling lead.
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#29
Wilfully false framing you are trying to erect. I am not 'bashing' Booker at all.
Celerity
Aug 2025
#34
Yes, you are bashing Booker. And you are the one constructing "false framing."
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#37
Disagreeing with Booker is not bashing Booker. If disagreeing with a Democrat is now bashing them, then there are
Celerity
Aug 2025
#41
You falsely saying (3 times now) I am 'implying Booker's a traitor' is an outrageous direct smear and personal attack.
Celerity
Aug 2025
#48
You are the one who injected the whole 'traitor' wording, and tryied to false associate me with it by saying
Celerity
Aug 2025
#58
You are all over the thread with repeated attacks on me. I am simply replying to your multiple replies to me that you
Celerity
Aug 2025
#65
It was made about me and certainly not by my choice. I simply responded in my defence to multiple personal attacks and
Celerity
Aug 2025
#179
No, Celerity, you made it about you, and you were the one who started attacking.
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#188
And here you go again. Proving my point. You keep coming at me over and over.
Celerity
Aug 2025
#211
Celerity, every post you cite is in response to your posts, and YOU started it with your post #19.
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#280
Again you misrepresent what I said. I was criticising the support of a specific action (Booker not endorsing Mamdani)
Celerity
Aug 2025
#294
No, you attacked DUers for supporting Booker. Again, you refuse to answer my question and continue to deflect.
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#314
You've been, on and off, having go after go at me for over TWENTY straight hours now in this thread, starting with post
Celerity
Aug 2025
#321
The "open approval" is hilarious. We supporters of Democrats on a forum supporting Democrats
betsuni
Aug 2025
#351
What are you talking about? The website the OP linked to is the online presence for The Alegemeiner Journal (aka The
Celerity
Aug 2025
#373
He's failed to support a Democrat who has a general election this year
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#133
If it helps, then yes, I think Tlaib was dumb and hurt the Democrats
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#161
You wilfully left off a lot of what I said, you took a small part and are now trying to spin it as if I was taking issue
Celerity
Aug 2025
#248
As has been pointed out, it was not a "refusal" it was a rather graceful dodge. If he had ...
Hekate
Aug 2025
#254
Kinda makes my point about why it was smart for Booker to stay out of the NYC race.
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#44
My response was to the person who posted the giant picture of the Algemeiner headline and story.
lapucelle
Aug 2025
#252
Politically, afaict American Hasids are more closely aligned w American Evangelicals than w Democrats
Hekate
Aug 2025
#297
Link washing the source and then a mischaracterization of it as a "NYC Jewish newspaper"...
lapucelle
Aug 2025
#367
Indeed it is. And no, it does not reflect the opinions of most Jewish Americans or Jewish New Yorkers.
lapucelle
Aug 2025
#313
You are absolutely correct! He should be able to endorse or not-endorse whomever he wants or doesn't want to.
Oopsie Daisy
Aug 2025
#74
Good grief. Booker is at least a generation younger than the geriatric set in charge.
Hekate
Aug 2025
#291
If Mamdani needs every Democrat in the United States to endorse him to win MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY...
W_HAMILTON
Aug 2025
#339
There is a significant difference between a spontaneous, unsolicited formal endorsement
Fiendish Thingy
Aug 2025
#363
It's negative framing, but it's the truth and there's a lot of disappointment about this the party needs to address
vanessa_ca
Aug 2025
#126
Were you this upset with Rashida Tlaib urging her constituents not to support Harris?
yardwork
Aug 2025
#128
The irony is that the Journal cited in the OP obviously thinks it's a good thing Booker didn't endorse.
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#53
It's stubbornly nasty when there's an almost religious fervor that only they are right, moral, smarter,
betsuni
Aug 2025
#387
Believe them, when they show you who they are..... Follow the flow of $ to Booker from AIPAC
Bread and Circuses
Aug 2025
#26
Booker was the only Dem to vote in favor of Charles Kushner (felon) to be Ambassador to France
IcyPeas
Aug 2025
#35
How very...... end- justifies-the-means and CYA of him. Even if it's not ethical or progressive of him.
Ping Tung
Aug 2025
#45
Mamdani is winning by double digits. Booker is just making sure he wins reelection.
SunSeeker
Aug 2025
#47
All throughout 2024 Zohran demanded that Kamala Harris "earn" his support
Justice Brandeis
Aug 2025
#56
Is this any different than Rashida Tlaib refusing to endorse VP Harris? Are the same folks who are upset about
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#70
I know, right? Blurting out and injecting random off-topic thoughts seems... odd.
Oopsie Daisy
Aug 2025
#75
It has to do with my opinion that the dem leadership could stand a refresh.
CentralMass
Aug 2025
#103
The moderate and conservative Dems will never vote for her over Jeffries. They (with Pelosi aiding them) blocked AOC
Celerity
Aug 2025
#72
I see no difference in Rashida Tlaib refusing to endorse VP Harris, and this.
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#69
Well... one BIG difference is that Booker isn't encouraging people to cast a protest-vote or to abstain from voting.
Oopsie Daisy
Aug 2025
#76
Yes, and thank-you. One additional point is that Booker is a Senator from New Jersey, NOT New York.
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#118
I know, right? I like Senator Booker... and apparently so do his constituents.
Oopsie Daisy
Aug 2025
#130
The only difference is one is a mayoral race being nationalized and the other was an actual national...
PunkinPi
Aug 2025
#78
All excellent points, and as you point out indirectly, Booker is a Senator from New Jersey, NOT NY.
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#119
What a surprise. As it pertains to this non-issue... who specifically do you "blame" and for what?
Oopsie Daisy
Aug 2025
#79
I support Senator Booker. He's free to remain noncommittal. At least he's not urging people to vote "Uncommitted" or *
Oopsie Daisy
Aug 2025
#85
Well, if you don't want to answer my question, that's fine. I don't have time for games.
Oopsie Daisy
Aug 2025
#94
With all this faux-outrage, one might falsely assume he'd told voters to vote for "UNCOMMITTED" or to vote *
Oopsie Daisy
Aug 2025
#80
Why in the world would a Senator from New Hersey endorse a mayoral candidate in another state?
Ursus Rex
Aug 2025
#83
Because nearly half a million who live in New Jersey work in New York City? (nt)
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#137
What a waste-of-space answer. And now we know he did endorse for NYC mayor before.
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#347
I expect the next time someone starts a thread about how all the govs are unacceptable to run for POTUS...
Hekate
Aug 2025
#316
And yet Cory Booker enthusiastically voted yes to make ex-con Kushner ambassador to France.
Scrivener7
Aug 2025
#92
Enthusiastically? Was he dancing? Cheering? Waving flags and banners? Wearing a party hat? Holding balloons?
Oopsie Daisy
Aug 2025
#96
OK, but right now, don't you think it's important that every Democratic candidate gets full-throated support from
Scrivener7
Aug 2025
#105
This article is a deliberate attempt to stir up controversy where there is none
Quiet Em
Aug 2025
#104
Perhaps, but it sure seems that a good number in this thread are not happy that a New Jersey Senator isn't
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#120
One thing is for certain: Mamdani's candidacy is great for the Democratic Party.
David__77
Aug 2025
#135
It's the same old divisive bullshit stirred up by people who want Republicans to win.
yardwork
Aug 2025
#143
Populist conspiracy theories of evil corrupt enemies who will stop at nothing to thwart their heroes,
betsuni
Aug 2025
#205
He's not gonna do anything to jeopardize the flow of that sweet, sweet AIPAC money nt
Rob H.
Aug 2025
#171
A tiny portion of the US population, yet somehow responsible for the troubles of the whole country
Hekate
Aug 2025
#325
IF? They've given him $870K+ and he posed in a group photo with war criminal Netanyahu in DC less than a month ago nt
Rob H.
Aug 2025
#251
My takeaway from this thread is that I'm beyond sick and tired of hearing about the NYC mayoral race
BannonsLiver
Aug 2025
#195
He is correct to point out that he's in New Jersey, and New Yorkers can figure this out. Is he wrong?
Hekate
Aug 2025
#223
Had to click on the link to find the name of the source: The Algemeiner. Why do I not know them?
Hekate
Aug 2025
#236
Chuck Schumer was the only Senator to endorse Eric Adams for NYC Mayor in 2021
Quiet Em
Aug 2025
#272
Booker "reached out" to Adams in 2021. Why does Booker being Mayor in 2009 matter?
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2025
#274
This Algemeiner paper is a Orthodox Jewish Publication for the Hasidic Community. From Pew Reseach...
electric_blue68
Aug 2025
#312
The OP is missing and presumed just looking for excitement. 317 posts and no sign of he who posted first.
Hekate
Aug 2025
#317
Discovering a new nitpicking Democrat-bashing source is very very exciting! Like a dog running home
betsuni
Aug 2025
#369
As usual, Democrats never get the benefit of the doubt, their motives assumed to be nefarious,
betsuni
Aug 2025
#359
And the source of the link-washed story turns out to be a right wing website
lapucelle
Aug 2025
#368
Yeah, there are a 1,000 more pressing things than an irrelevant endorsement.
themaguffin
Aug 2025
#365