Newark's Cory Booker has a lot on his plate, and we're not talking about all that needs to be done in Newark. From the Daily News...
Tough-minded pundit Arianna Huffington may have found a politician she approves of. Word is that the Huffington Post founder has been quietly dating Newark Mayor Cory Booker. Huffington didn't respond to several e-mails. Hizzoner's spokeswoman told us, "We don't comment on his personal life." Huffington was an early supporter of Booker in the Rhodes scholar's battle to unseat longtime Newark boss Sharpe James. Booker has contributed several posts to her blog.One person bound to take an interest in the talk is TV reporter (and Oprah pal) Gayle King, who has regularly turned up on Booker's arm at events where Huffington is also a guest.
Maybe he could do Obama a fave and start dating this gal instead.
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Corey is so adorable!
He is a cutie, huh?
I was a little surprised about Arianna, but not as surprised as I was when she appeared on Tyra!
That was no Barbara Walters interview, that's for sure.
Whether or no she's truly "dating" Booker, I can never take any claims for Arianna's perspicacity seriously after the debacle of her ex's senatorial run. Either she was too dumb to notice his true sexual preference (something he denies) or she was simply too hungry for political power to care, given his many millions. Either way, she is a very scary woman, a kind of second or even third-string version of Pamela Churchill Harriman. Especially so if she and Booker are seeing each other socially, too.
cathar, I seem to recall you being a bit more sympathetic to Dina Matos McGreevey who was in the same situation as Arianna.
These types of relationships will continue to occur as long as people are raised to think homosexuality is a sin or some type of personal defect to be repressed.
SSP, the Dina Matos McGreevey situation is in NO real way analogous to Arianna Huffington's. You know better. Or should know better but here muster mock outrage. Ms. Huffington is, unlike Dina Matos, a shameless seeker after political influence. Nor did she purposely marry someone so conveniently wealthy, American-born (and accent-less, how can we take a domestic version of La Pasionaria seriously if she sounds like Zsa Zsa playing a French cat in a Disney animated movie?) and, best of all, pliable to her obvious and strong will. (He also, as you perhaps forget, ran as a bloody Republican! So much for her ideological fealty.)
And I was raised to think that fidelity was rather important to any relationship. Something James McGreevey seems to have ignored throughout both his beard-marriages, to go by his own memoir. "That type" of relationship, where one's vows of constancy are only honored in the breach, I hope remains "sinful," though you may of course disagree.
Cory Booker is very appealing, very cute. I saw him a few times when I lived in Newark and he made me smile. Also, he is smart and will probably do quite a bit for Newark, given the chance.
She's his beard...nuff said.
Can her money help lower the 20K per kid spending in Newark schools?
Is this a way to increase tax revenue?
Can her money help lower the 20K per kid spending in Newark schools?
Is this a way to increase tax revenue?