Now Revealed by Stripper: Booker’s Twitter Messages

[rug]

By MICHAEL BARBARO
Published: September 25, 2013

Mayor Cory A. Booker has a high schooler’s affinity for Twitter, reveling in its ceaseless flow of affirmation and infinite space for self-promotion.

Mayor Cory A. Booker has a high schooler’s affinity for Twitter, reveling in its ceaseless flow of affirmation and infinite space for self-promotion.

Ms. Lee, whose photograph on Twitter features her splayed topless across a yellow couch, replied, “Well, now I’m blushing”

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Ms. Lee, who works at Casa Diablo, which bills itself as the world’s first vegan strip club, did not respond to messages on Wednesday night.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/nyregion/now-revealed-by-stripper-bookers-twitter-messages.html?_r=0

Yes, it's real.

http://casadiablo.org/wordpress/

[gopiscrap]

1. Oh fuck there goes that senate seat

[Dawson Leery]

4. bigdarryl says otherwise.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=325641

[gopiscrap]

13. hope he's right

[MADem]

28. Sounds like "plenty of nuthin'" to me.

The GOP have been running an insinuating "Ooooh he's gay, not that there's anything wrong with that" (snicker snicker) campaign. How does that square with his twitter-friendship with a vegan stripper? They'll have to "charge" him with being bi, I guess.

I can't help but notice that his GOP opponent declined to comment. It will be interesting to learn if they alerted the media after monitoring his twitter feed.

I'm-a gonna have to hear a few diaper/prostitute stories, or learn that he's twitting pics of his Junque, before I get too concerned...

[Dawson Leery]

2. And?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=325641

[rug]

9. Nothing in there about a vegan strip club, is there?

Where are your priorities?

[The Magistrate]

3. Strikes Me As A Single Fella With A Healthy Appetite, Sir

Ought to get him some votes....

[rug]

10. Frankly, I find the vegan aspect most interesting.

How many vegans are there in Jersey?

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Yeah...

I missed the memo where our party was supposed to be in charge of catering to the moral panic finger-waggers and tut-tutters of the world.

[LittleBlue]

5. Is this supposed to be controversial?

Like his office said, the most shocking thing is a vegan strip club in Portland. As far as I know, he's single.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. It's only shocking if you're not familiar with this place.

If you are, you're shocked there's only one.

[MadrasT]

43. OK see now *that* was *funny*

[Warren DeMontague]

44. Honestly, I'm more surprised there's not a Pirate-Themed Strip Club.

Dammit, I googled, and there IS.

[madaboutharry]

6. Seems like there is no there there.

This is nothing. He exchanged messages with her on his twitter account, BFD.

[msanthrope]

7. There's a vegan strip club in Portland? I so want to see that as a Portlandia sketch. nt

[giftedgirl77]

12. That would be awesome... I love Portlandia

[MrScorpio]

8. Really? Isn't he single?

Why is this a problem?

[Fumesucker]

11. I trust those cantaloupes are fully organic n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

14. My favorite line in the article...

“The most shocking part of the story was learning that there is a vegan strip club in Portland.”

My question: What the hell IS a vegan strip club?

[rug]

17. No milk products.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

19. Hmmmm (nt)

[Tree-Hugger]

26. They have artificial milk products

Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.

[dkf]

27. Hahaha funny.

[giftedgirl77]

15. According to the article all they did was flirt if that

& even if it was something more last I checked the man is single....

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

20. He's still single...

and I hardly see where chatting up somebody on Twitter is even remarkable, much less offensive.

[giftedgirl77]

24. That's my take on it.

Maybe all the fuss is all the breasts & thighs being served up in a vegan restaurant. Seems pretty damn hypocritical to me

[Warren DeMontague]

39. Some people can be offended by just about anything.

Still, I suspect Mr. Booker can weather this particular storm just fine.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

40. I find your avatar offensive...

Shit, he's right!

[Warren DeMontague]

41. Tell it to Jerry.

http://www.dozin.com/jers/guitars/wolf/wolf.htm

[davepc]

16. So is he gay or a cad? I'm getting confused now

I can't keep up with all the slurs against Mayor Bookers sex life.

[rug]

18. I think they're insinuating he's a closet vegan.

[RosieS57]

21. All heroes....

......deserve a lap dance now and then.

Regards from Rosie

[madinmaryland]

25. Oh, fer fuck sakes. This BS belongs on rim-job's site.

[longship]

29. No eggs or milk in that place.

All just for show, and all the veggies you can eat.

What's wrong with this? He's single. Other than I don't particularly like the concept of strip clubs, they seem to be everywhere. And a vegan one certainly strains the normal strip club image.

I find the article amusing and somewhat refreshing. If I were Booker, I'd try to leverage the story. (Or maybe just laugh about it.) After all, he isn't trying to pull a Carlos Danger, now is he?

[ecstatic]

30. I was expecting to see something juicy or perhaps vile

Did the article leave something out?

According to the article, she wrote to him first, saying "The west coast loves you."

He replied, “the East Coast loves you, and by the East Coast, I mean me.”

Ms. Lee, whose photograph on Twitter features her splayed topless across a yellow couch, replied, “Well, now I’m blushing ”

Mr. Booker wrote back: “It’s only fair.”

I wouldn't bat an eye if my SO wrote that, much less a single guy being polite on twitter. lmao!

[Chan790]

31. This feels like a news-plant to me.

The timing is suspect, it's really transparent and it has the fingerprints of a story being proffered to the media by the campaign.

[rug]

32. Whatever it is, I think it wil backfire.

[Blue_Tires]

33. just to save everyone the trouble:

[Sissyk]

36. Seems depending on her clothing, she can

open carry or concealed carry that pistol.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

42. This thread is useless without....... Oh never mind. :-P

[Arkana]

46. Damn. I'd go vegan for that.

[HappyMe]

34. Meh.

Didn't even move my outrage meter.

[Dawson Leery]

35. Clearly, she support his campaign.

There is nothing to this. The story was planted by right wing operatives to smear Booker.
First he is Gay, now he is with a white stripper. See where this is going?

[IronLionZion]

37. This might backfire on the GOP. It is New Jersey after all. nt

[NuclearDem]

38. Vegan strip club?

Say quinwhaaaaaa?

[mnmoderatedem]

45. Well now that Mark Sanford and David Vitter are safely reelected

expect republicans to trot out the ol' family values card and expect it to suddenly matter again. They have their own little on/off switch for things like these...

[GeorgeGist]

47. Bad snip

post makes no sense.