{"id":112,"date":"2012-05-22T02:46:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T02:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=112"},"modified":"2012-05-22T02:46:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T02:46:40","slug":"booker-hits-back-calls-bain-attacks-fair-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/22\/booker-hits-back-calls-bain-attacks-fair-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker Hits Back, Calls Bain Attacks &#8216;Fair Game&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newark Mayor Cory Booker hit back on Monday night after the GOP pounced on his comments that the negative advertising by both campaigns is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nauseating\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that he is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153uncomfortable\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with the Obama campaign\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attacks on presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time at the private equity firm Bain Capital. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rising Democratic star said on MSNBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>The Rachel Maddow Show<\/em> that the GOP crossed a line on Monday with press releases, sound bites, and even a petition on the GOP website urging voters to <a href=\"https:\/\/net.gop.com\/istandwithcory\/Default.aspx\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stand with Cory.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Booker stressed that he has been an Obama supporter for his entire political career, and is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153upset\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with how the GOP has twisted his words. He posed a challenge to the GOP, invoking the Obama campaign\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new rallying cry. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/booker-hits-back-calls-bain-attacks-fair-game--20120521\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/booker-hits-back-calls-bain-attacks-fair-game--20120521\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/booker-hits-back-calls-bain-attacks-fair-game&#8211;20120521<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newark Mayor Cory Booker hit back on Monday night after the GOP pounced on his comments that the negative advertising by both campaigns is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nauseating\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that he is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153uncomfortable\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with the Obama campaign\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attacks on presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time at the private equity firm Bain Capital. \u00c2\u00a0 The rising Democratic star said &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/05\/22\/booker-hits-back-calls-bain-attacks-fair-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Booker Hits Back, Calls Bain Attacks &#8216;Fair Game&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1037,6],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google-reader","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-1O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}