Lonegan: Booker Afraid to Admit Support for Obama’s War
“Cory Booker is afraid to admit he supports the President’s proposed war in Syria,” Lonegan said, “so instead he attempts to hide behind the smokescreen of not having enough information. But people are onto the Mayor’s act now, and his refusal to speak out against the President’s war can only be interpreted as assent.”
BOGOTA, NJ – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan accused Democrat Cory Booker of being “afraid to admit he supports President Obama’s proposal for military action in Syria.”
“Mayor Booker claims he cannot say whether he will support or oppose President Obama’s proposed military attack on Syria allegedly because he has no access to classified information,” Lonegan said, calling that argument “as fake as T-Bone.”
“The American people have figured out very quickly that President Obama has not made the case that American interests are at stake in Syria,” Lonegan said. “Americans are sick of being the world’s policeman and sick of getting involved in domestic civil wars where there is no evidence that America’s national security is threatened.”
“Cory Booker is afraid to admit he supports the President’s proposed war in Syria,” Lonegan said, “so instead he attempts to hide behind the smokescreen of not having enough information. But people are onto the Mayor’s act now, and his refusal to speak out against the President’s war can only be interpreted as assent.”
Mayor Lonegan said he spoke out against the proposal to go to war in Syria immediately after the President proposed it. “Once again, Cory Booker is trying to talk out of three sides of his mouth on this issue in an attempt to hide the reality that he does whatever he is told to do by President Obama,” Lonegan added. “New Jersey needs a fighter for the people, not an Obama Rubber Stamp, representing us in the U.S. Senate.”
Lonegan’s comments came to members of the media in Paterson where Lonegan was marching in the 24th Annual New Jersey State Dominican Parade. Lonegan built and operated a cabinet manufacturing business in Paterson for over a decade.
Lonegan served as Bogota Mayor for twelve years, winning three times in a town that gave Barack Obama 67.5 percent of the vote in 2012. He served for seven years as state director of Americans for Prosperity New Jersey, where he helped defeat liberal attempts to expand big government. Steve Lonegan is the conservative Republican candidate in the New Jersey special election for the United States Senate. Lonegan stands firmly on the bedrock conservative values of small government, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.