Cory Booker

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Cory Booker (2015)

Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969 in Washington, DC ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . The lawyer has represented the state of New Jersey in the US Senate since 2013 . Until then, he had held the office of Mayor of Newark City from 2006 . Booker has become known for his intense political communication via social networks and media. He ran for his party's nomination for the 2020 presidential election a year before the Iowa primary, withdrew his candidacy on January 13, 2020. He justified his decision with too little donation to still be able to win.

Professional career

Booker, whose parents were among the first black executives at IBM , studied political science and law at Stanford , Yale and Oxford universities . After studying law, he worked for the Urban Justice Center in New York and as a program coordinator for the Newark Youth Project . In the mid-2000s he became a partner in a law firm.

Political career

Alderman and Mayor of Newark

In 1998, Booker was elected to the nine-member Newark City Council by defeating incumbent George Branch. In 2002, he did not run again for a city council, but ran as a candidate for mayor. He was subject to incumbent Sharpe James . From 2002 to 2006 he held no political office. He founded the grassroots organization Newark Now , which should contribute to networking the residents of Newark and improving the living conditions in the city.

In 2006, Booker ran again for mayor and was elected with 72 percent of the vote. In addition, many of the city council candidates close to him were successful, so that he also had strong support in the city council. During his first year in office, he reduced the crime rate by 33 percent; He also managed to raise a $ 100 million donation from Mark Zuckerberg for the Newark Schools and significantly reduce the city's deficit. In 2009, US President Barack Obama offered him the position of head of the newly created office for urban development, which Booker refused, citing his ties to Newark.

As Mayor of Newark in 2010 he was safe, but re-elected with a narrower result of almost 60 percent of the vote and remained in office until he was sworn in as a US Senator on October 31, 2013.

United States Senator

Cory Booker won the extraordinary by-election of one of New Jersey's two seats in the US Senate in October 2013 for the Democrats. Booker had already announced in December 2012 that he would run for this seat in the regular election in November 2014 and thus the previous mandate holder, his party colleague Frank Lautenberg to challenge. After Lautenberg died in June 2013, Booker ran as a candidate for the necessary by-election. Even if the Lautenbergs did not speak out in favor of Booker, he was well ahead of his competitors in opinion polls, both for the party's internal area code and in the subsequent general by-election. On August 13, 2013, he won the Democratic Party's nomination with 59 percent of the vote, making him the clear favorite against his Republican challenger Steve Lonegan in the October election. For the time being, he put an end to speculation about further political ambitions when he ruled out running in the 2016 presidential election (also for the office of vice president ) in August 2013 .

The election campaign turned out to be more difficult than expected; Booker's popularity ratings fell significantly at times. In the election for the seat in the US Senate on October 16, 2013, Cory Booker won 54.6 percent over Steve Lonegan (44.3 percent) and took office in the successor to interim Senator Jeffrey Chiesa on October 31, 2013 with the Swearing in. In the November 2014 Senate election , Booker ran for a full six-year term. He prevailed against Republican Jeff Bell with more than 56 percent of the vote .

In the Senate, Booker stood out in particular at the hearing of Supreme Court candidate Brett Kavanaugh , when he disrupted the opening because of Kavanaugh's documents withheld, put Kavanaugh under pressure over questions, particularly about affirmative action , and announced that he would publish documents classified as secret himself if he should be expelled from the Senate as a consequence.

Media use and reception

Cory Booker at the 2011 Time 100 Gala

Booker makes extensive use of the media for its public relations work. His 2002 election campaign was the focus of the documentary Street Fight , which was nominated for an Oscar . He was the main character in the documentary series Brick City , which accompanied his work as mayor and the reforms in Newark in two seasons in 2009 and 2011. He used social media in particular for this work ; After a snowstorm in 2010, he received requests from citizens via Twitter to shovel snow, some of which he carried out personally and coordinated the relief and clean-up work after the devastating Hurricane Sandy in autumn 2012. Booker's actions repeatedly caused a stir; For example, he lived in a public housing in a hot spot for eight years , went on hunger strike for ten days or a week on $ 30 a week to draw attention to the lack of care for people in need of public aid. He hit the headlines in April 2012 when he rescued a neighbor from her burning house.

The news magazine Time declared Booker to be a “social-media superhero” in 2010; Oprah Winfrey called him a "rock star" because of his media presence and raised funds for his Senate election campaign.

Political ambitions

the fan (October 2019)

In January 2016, Booker's memoirs appeared under the title United , which some journalistic observers linked to a possible candidacy for vice-president in the 2016 election , which was repeatedly speculated in the media.

After the defeat of the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, Cory Booker was named as a possible candidate for the 2020 presidential election . In January 2017, Booker stated he did not want to run for president in order to focus on the government under Donald Trump's presidency . Booker was in the bottom of early Democratic pre-election polls, with 8 to 3 percent of those polled saying he was a preferred candidate. However, he continued to be talked about, including by supporting Democratic candidates nationwide, including Doug Jones in his 2017 Alabama election and Mike Espy in his 2018 Senate nomination in Mississippi .

In February 2019, Booker announced that he would run for the 2020 presidential election. One of his supporters was Jon Bon Jovi . Booker withdrew his candidacy on January 13, 2020 on the grounds that he had not raised enough funds from fundraising to still be able to win.

Fonts

  • United. Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good. Random House, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1101965160 .

literature

  • Gwen Ifill : The Breakthrough. Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. Doubleday, New York et al. 2009, ISBN 978-0-385-52501-5 , Chapter Cory Booker , pp. 137-157 (preview) .
  • Andra Gillespie: The New Black Politician. Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America. New York University Press, New York et al. 2012, ISBN 978-0-8147-3244-1 .
  • Jonathan L. Wharton: A Post-racial Change Is Gonna Come. Newark, Cory Booker, and the Transformation of Urban America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-349-44733-6 (preview) .

Web links

Commons : Cory Booker  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Presidential Election Events, July 2016  - News
Wikiquote: Cory Booker  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cory Booker drops out of 2020 race , eu.usatoday.com January 13, 2020, accessed January 13, 2020
  2. ^ A b Kate Zernike: Booker, Winning Rocky Senate Bid, Gets a Job to Fit His Profile. In: The New York Times , October 16, 2013.
  3. ^ Mount Union Announces Schooler Lecturer. ( Memento of August 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: University of Mount Union , August 8, 2012.
  4. ↑ David Giambusso: Newark Mayor Cory Booker's nonprofit charity remains go-to marketplace for city contractors. In: NJ.com , September 18, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b c Nick Carbone: Cory Booker Reminds Us All He's Still a Superhero. In: Time , April 13, 2012.
  6. ↑ a b Tanja Morschhäuser, Viktor Funk: After Sandy: Cory Booker help via Twitter: If the mayor brings diapers. , November 1, 2012.
  7. ^ Richard Pérez-Peña: Booker Is Re-elected Newark Mayor. In: The New York Times , May 11, 2010.
  8. ^ Jillian Rayfield: Cory Booker Will Explore Run for Senate in 2014. In: Salon.com , December 20, 2012.
  9. ↑ Angela Selli Santi, Geoff Mulvihill: Cory Booker Formally Enters NJ Senate Race, Endorsed by Bill Bradley. In: The Grio , June 8, 2013.
  10. Jump up ↑ New Jersey Senate - Bell vs. Booker. Aggregate of election polls at RealClearPolitics.
  11. ↑ Matt Friedman, David Giambusso: Booker Wins Democratic US Senate Primary Election. In: The Star-Ledger , August 13, 2013.
  12. ^ Maggie Haberman: 2016 Presidential Race: Cory Booker Rules Out Run. In: Politico , August 1, 2013.
  13. ^ New Jersey Senate 2013. In: The New York Times , October 16, 2013.
  14. ↑ David Giambusso: Cory Booker Planning to Be Sworn In to Senate on Halloween. In: The Star-Ledger , October 23, 2013.
  15. ^ Matt Friedman: Cory Booker Leads Opponent Jeff Bell by 10 Points, Poll Finds. In: The Star-Ledger , August 6, 2014.
  16. ↑ Herb Jackson: Cory Booker grills Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. In: North Jersey Record , September 6, 2018; John Haltiwanger: 'Bring it': Cory Booker says he's releasing a confidential document on Kavanaugh, risking expulsion from the Senate. In: Business Insider , September 6, 2018.
  17. ^ Street Fight. In: PBS (online presence).
  18. ↑ Perry Bacon Jr .: How Cory Booker Could Reshape the Senate. In: The Grio , July 10, 2013.
  19. ↑ Sean Gregory: Cory Booker: The Mayor of Twitter and Blizzard Superhero. In: Time , December 29, 2010.
  20. ↑ Catalina Camia: Oprah Raising Money for Cory Booker's Senate Bid. In: USA Today , July 30, 2013.
  21. ↑ Heather Haddon: Sen. Cory Booker to Release Memoir. In: The Washington Post , June 15, 2015; Michael Tanenbaum: US Senator Cory Booker writing memoir-policy book 'United'. January 2016 publication timed to coincide with presidential race. In: PhillyVoice.com , June 15, 2015. General information on the writing of books by politicians Karen Heller: Every Candidate an Author. The Ceaseless Boom in Books by Politicians. In: The Washington Post , May 27, 2015.
  22. ^ Cory Booker not open for being President. In: CNN.com , Jan. 21, 2016.
  23. ^ Cory Booker announces he is running for president. In: CNN. February 1, 2019, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  24. ^ Jon Bon Jovi: Booker would 'do an amazing job' as president . In: The Hill
personal data
SURNAME Booker, Cory
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Booker, Cory Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC