Lonegan: Cory Booker Needs to Come Clean
“If Cory Booker is elected, California will have a third senator, because Booker will be beholden to the Silicon Valley billionaires who funded his ‘start-up’ business. Additionally, campaign donations were being raised at the same time as funding for Cory Booker’s business. This is sketchy, to say the least.”
NEW YORK, NY – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan took his Exposing Booker Tour to the Wall Street offices of Cory Booker’s Waywire company.
The Waywire scandal was exposed on the front page of the New York Times Wednesday, revealing that Mayor Booker has received over $1.5 million in angel financing from his major Silicon Valley supporters. Booker initially failed to reveal his single largest asset, a gift from Silicon Valley moguls, and was forced to amend his financial disclosure only days before the primary.
Mayor Lonegan pointed out that Cory Booker opted to put his newfound business in New York City, not in his city of Newark. His motives for this are unclear; he either has no confidence in Newark as a place to start a business, did not receive a corporate welfare subsidy from taxpayers, or was doing everything possible to keep his business out of the public eye.
Mayor Lonegan explained that in the years to come there will be significant votes in the U.S. Senate about the use of data and individual privacy. Companies like Google and Facebook, the world’s largest collectors of data and communications information, will be impacted by these votes in Congress.
“Given how much money Booker has received from Silicon Valley, will he be beholden to their interests?” Lonegan asked.
Lonegan said, “If Cory Booker is elected, California will have a third senator, because Booker will be beholden to the Silicon Valley billionaires who funded his ‘start-up’ business. Additionally, Campaign donations were being raised at the same time as funding for Cory Booker’s business. This is sketchy, to say the least.”
The 15-year-old son of CNN president, Jeff Zucker, was an advisory board member at Waywire. He resigned Wednesday, the day of the New York Times report.
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.
Booker should fix Newark first before running. The city is a mess under his (lack of) leadership. I will cast my vote for Lonergan. Honestly, loutenberg, Torricelli, loutenberg did nothing for NJ. It is time for real and honest representation.
New Jersey keeps electing these democrats to represent our state and for what? New Jersey has the lowest return on federal tax dollars sent in the entire nation. Coming in as the biggest loser is New Jersey with a return of 61 cents per dollar sent. Where was Frank Lautenberg representing New Jersey? With some of the highest taxes in the nation I would like to see at minimum a break even number. New Mexico gets $2.03 for every $1.00 sent, Mississippi $2.02 for every dollar and Alaska $1.84 for each dollar sent.
See for yourself the failure of the NJ democratic machine https://visualeconomics.creditloan.com/united-states-federal-tax-dollars/
I will vote Lonergan for real hope for NJ.
“Booker should fix Newark before running”.
Why not Lonegan? Why shouldn’t he be given an impossible job that would preclude him from running?
You realize your logic is atrocious, right?
Rob I remember that type of thinking by a Mayor Dave Dinkins in NYC , humm “Rudy” Giuliani showed him
Rob,
With Booker as mayor Newark has seen an alarming increase in crime. Overall increase is 17% with violent crime up 27%. The murder rate is up 19% and robberies up an astounding 48%. He has done some good for the city finding money for projects through philanthropy and facebook’s 100mil but strings attached and measures of success are yet to be determined.
#4 Rudy and NYC in that period benefited from a fantastic economy, then tried to capitalize on being the face of “9-11!”. He was a hack, and eventually that became obvious to everyone.
#5 correlation and causation are two different things. We’ve had a little difficulty with a credit collapse since 2007. The economy has been hit hard, and crime in shit neighborhoods typically spikes when that happens.
Short of doubling the police force, for which there is no funding, I can’t imagine how one would “fix” Newark in the short term, outside of draconian measures that would make Stalin blush. The best way to go is to bring some money and jobs in and let gentrification occur.