Cory Booker, the Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, raised $1.9 million for his 2014 Senate campaign in this year’s first quarter, including donations from well-known figures in sports, entertainment, lobbying and finance. Jason Kidd, point guard for the New...
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Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ speaks onstage at the 2013 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.
Booker’s Backers: Jason Kidd, Victor Cruz, Rob Reiner, Ron Howard
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Sen. Frank Lautenberg, right, and Sen. Max Baucus arrive at the weekly Senate Democratic Policy Luncheon at the Capitol on Jan. 29, 2013.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 13
That’s how many consecutive U.S. Senate elections Democrats have won in New Jersey. The Democratic winning streak began in 1976, when Harrison Williams was elected for the fourth and final time, and was extended in 2012, when Democrat Robert Menendez...
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Sen. Frank Lautenberg walks to the Senate floor from a Democratic caucus meeting on Capitol Hill on Feb. 14, 2013. Lautenberg, 89, has decided not to seek re-election on order to clear the way for Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker to assume the spot.
Lautenberg Goes — Maybe Not Gently — But He Goes
Octogenarian Frank Lautenberg – close to being a nonagenarian — seemed to delight in sending mixed signals on whether he would run for Senate re-election next year in New Jersey. So much so that the front page of yesterday’s New York Times...
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Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, arrives at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Super-Booker to the Twitter Rescue: ‘Cha-Cha Comes in from the Cold’
This time it was cold, not fire, threatening a Newark damsel in distress. Still, Mayor Cory Booker knew just what to do: He swept her off her four furry feet, placed her in a police cruiser and ordered the heat...
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Mitch Behm, assistant inspector general of the U.S. Transportation Department, left, and Senator Frank Lautenberg, center, a Democrat from New Jersey, before the start of a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington.
Lautenberg Turns 89, Poll Negative
Frank Lautenberg might not be having such a good birthday: A new poll says the U.S. senator from New Jersey is vulnerable, and another high-ranking Democrat says he’s weighing whether to take on Gov. Chris Christie in November or seek...
Read more »Booker Books a 2014 Senate Race
Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey: Magnet for Wall Street money. Scooper-upper of imperiled neighbor in a burning apartment. Now, filer of Federal Election Commission Form 1, “Statement of Organization,” to run for U.S. Senate in 2014. Cory Booker, 44,...
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Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama during a town hall style debate at Hofstra University.
Washington Daybook: Swing States
Both President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney will claim victories in debate today as they and their surrogates attend rallies in the swing states of Iowa, Ohio and Virginia. Expect the frenetic campaign pace to continue through the weekend...
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Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, at the Democratic National Convention.
Castro, Booker: Paths from City Hall in a Swiftly Changing Nation
Most of them have come from governors’ offices in the past century: The presidents of the United States. Some from the Senate. Not since Calvin Coolidge, however, has a one-time mayor of an American city become president. He came from...
Read more »Democratic Platform Writers Propose Support for Same-Sex Marriage
The first major political party platform to endorse same-sex marriage cleared the Democratic National Convention’s platform committee today in Detroit. The platform committee unanimously voted to approve the document and send it to the convention delegates meeting in Charlotte next...
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Bill Clinton
Clinton: Romney’s `Sterling’ Career
The ranks of Democrats defending Republican Mitt Romney’s career as a buyout executive have grown with a high-profile addition: former President Bill Clinton. In an interview last night on CNN, the Obama campaign surrogate refused to fall in line with...
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