Sen. Cory Booker Tells Austin to Embrace the "Moral Moment" We're In [View all]
Under the hazy purple lights of Cheer Up Charlies, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker talked gun violence, civil rights, and the urgency of love in front of a packed crowd Wednesday night, Aug. 28.
It was the New Jersey senator’s first visit to Austin as a presidential candidate, and his latest since delivering the keynote address at the Texas Democratic Party’s annual Johnson-Jordan dinner last September.
The candidate was introduced by Dyana Limon-Mercado, the chair of the Travis County Democratic Party, who noted that she couldn’t endorse any particular candidate but praised Booker’s platform.
“One of the things I appreciate most about Sen. Booker is that he was paying attention to Texas when a lot of other people weren’t,” Limon-Mercado said. “He was here over a year ago rallying with Texas Democrats, he was here years ago investigating for-profit prisons in West Texas, and it says a lot to me about what people are doing when nobody’s looking.”
Read more: https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2019-08-29/sen-cory-booker-tells-austin-to-embrace-the-moral-moment-were-in/
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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