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Why voters should care about Booker’s start-up problem
Ari Melber,
3:59 PM on 08/09/2013
Newark Mayor Cory Booker talks to the media next to former Senator Bill Bradley as he announces his plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat during a news conference in Newark, June 8, 2013. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
If Aaron Sorkin were to craft a movie about Newark Mayor Cory Booker, you can bet that Waywire, Booker’s controversial technology start-up, would provide a cautionary tale for the mayor’s voracious ambition.
The company is an allegory for Booker’s style—audacious, well-connected and promising “revolutionary” change; yet prone to a certain vagueness and affinity for what we might call the politics of the donor class.
The New York Times renewed the spotlight on Waywire this week, questioning how a full-time mayor managed to launch an online video company, raise investments from the Oprah’s and Google’s of the world, and amass a potentially multi-million dollar stake. Booker’s opponents, in both parties, are seizing on the story to attack him, and it could persist through the general election.
There are two substantive charges here: Booker should be more transparent about the company, and the arrangement creates unavoidable conflicts of interes
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