What I like about him is that every person he meets is his friend. This is a picture of him during his mayoral race in Newark.
He would seek to raise the minimum wage, be cautious about government surveillance and it's necessity, support environmental protections, support non-proliferation initiatives, seek economic improvements in foreign relations without compromising American labor as in NAFTA and CAFTA, support Ports security, would support bills for gun control, infrastructure improvement and safety as well as guarantees for civil rights.
He is the man for New Jersey in the US Senate. He would be a great asset to the country. He needs to ask the voters to come out and vote for him. He never should forget unless he asks for them to come out and vote they may get the message they aren't needed in the turn out. It would be a disappointment to them if they weren't reminded how important they are.
Cory Booker has been a hero all his life and should have the opportunity to be a hero for New Jersey in the US Senate.
His parents, (click here) Carolyn Rose (née Jordan) and Cary Alfred Booker, were among the first black executives at IBM. Booker graduated from Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan and was named to the 1986 USA Today All-USA high school football team.
Booker went on to Stanford University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1991 and a Master of Arts in sociology the following year. While at Stanford, he played varsity football, and also made the All–Pacific Ten Academic team and was elected senior class president. In addition, Booker ran The Bridge Peer Counseling Center, a student-run crisis hotline, and organized help from Stanford students for youth in East Palo Alto, California.
After Stanford, Booker was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where he earned an honors degree in U.S. history in 1994 as a member of The Queen's College. He earned his Juris Doctor in 1997 from Yale Law School, where he operated free legal clinics for low-income residents of New Haven, Connecticut. At Yale, Booker was a founding member of the Chai Society (now the Eliezer Society), a Big Brother with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and was active in the National Black Law Students Association...