“This morning, I will begin living on a food budget of $30 a week / $4.32 per day. This is the financial equivalent of the budget provided to people participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, in the State of New Jersey. I will live only on a SNAP equivalent food budget for the next seven …
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NEW JERSEY: Gay Groups Encourage Cory Booker To Challenge Christie In 2013
The Newark Star-Ledger today reports that both Garden State Equality and the Human Rights Campaign are encouraging Mayor Cory Booker to challenge Gov. Chris Christie in his 2013 re-election bid. Steve Goldstein, the head of New Jersey’s largest gay rights organization, says he’ll go “door to door from New Jersey to West Hollywood to raise millions of dollars” if Newark …
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After a flame war with a Twitter user who calls herself “the enemy of communism and socialism,” Newark Mayor Cory Booker challenged her to join him in trying to live on food stamps for one week. Booker, who’s prolific on Twitter, on Sunday tweeted out a quote from Plutarch: “An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most …
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CHARLOTTE: Top Politicos Address Second LGBT Caucus At Democratic Convention
A galaxy of the Democratic Party’s top stars literally waited in line outside the jammed LGBT Caucus ballroom today for a turn to address the overflow audience of activists, journalists, and delegates. Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who entered to chants of COR-REE COR-REE, sent reporters flying to their Twitter accounts when he broadly hinted that he’d be the one to …
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You and millions of others had the same thought after Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s fiery speech tonight.
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NEW JERSEY: Chris Christie & Cory Booker Team Up For Press Club Comedy Video
It’s actually pretty good. “BOOKER!” Made for the New Jersey Press Association Legislative Correspondents Club Show.
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