Booker downplays Twitter chat with stripper fan
Thursday, September 26, 2013 Last updated: Friday September 27, 2013, 12:30 AM
BY MICHAEL LINHORST
STATE HO– USE BUREAU
The Record
Cory Booker’s national profile is built in part on his reputation as a Twitter celebrity, a politician with over a million followers who is willing to communicate with anyone about almost anything.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Newark Mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker meeting with reporters Thursday in Newark. Much of the questioning focused on his Twitter chat with a Portland, Ore., stripper.
One of those people, it turns out, is Lynsie Lee, a stripper in Portland, Ore., who works in a “vegan strip club.” The politician and the performer shared a brief, private chat in February.
But that once-private exchange is now public and buzzing around the Internet that helped make Booker famous.
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He chats with a lot of his followers. She is a person too and there is nothing wrong with communicating with her. She is just as much a person as a Bergen Record reporter.