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riversedge

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1. Wow--look at this response he gave a person in the audiance. Cool...
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 10:42 AM
Apr 2016

BTW--Waukesha is in the heart of Gov Walker RED country.


.....Booker wasn't going to escape Waukesha unscathed, however.

He called on a man in the last row for one final question. "As a future vice presidential candidate," the man began, and the room erupted in laughter and applause. Booker put his arm around the local Clinton field organizer and pointed to her.

"I'm not done," the man said when the room quieted. "That was just to soften it up a little bit . . . and as a friend of the governor of New Jersey, has your opinion of Chris Christie increased or decreased since his endorsement of Donald Trump?"

Booker didn't really answer. "We are all mountain ranges - we all have peaks; we all have valleys," he said. "I focus on his peaks, and where we have points of agreement and can work together. We're still friends."

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160401_Booker_charms_Wisconsin_Democrats_for_Clinton.html#PhcSDIGs90RbXups.99

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