The Other Booker
Cory's treading water in the Presidential primary, unfortunately. But there's another Booker in Kentucky who's making a play to unseat Moscow Mitch.
It’s been about four months since Charles Booker, the Democratic state representative from Louisville who has formed an exploratory committee for a U.S. Senate run, drove to Harlan County to throw his support behind protesting coal miners camped out along a set of railroad tracks.He's sincere, more natural and comfortable on the stump than Amy McGrath, and oh, yeah, he's African-American.
The experience, he said, was transformative.
At the time, a group of out-of-work miners had occupied a railroad line used to haul coal from a Harlan County mine. They were protesting their former employer, Blackjewel LLC., for issuing bad checks to hundreds of Kentucky miners and laying them off with virtually no notice.
Booker was one of many Kentucky politicians to visit the protest. Others included Democrats Amy McGrath and Mike Broihier, Booker’s would-be primary opponents.
“I think what that inspired in me is that Kentuckians are ready to work for the change that we need to see, even if that means to be uncomfortable and to stand up and speak out,” Booker said.
“It changed my life, for sure,” he said.
On Wednesday, Booker was back in Eastern Kentucky, taking questions from a small crowd of voters at a restaurant in Whitesburg with the hope of gaining some notoriety in a region where few people know his name.
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I congratulate Booker on running for the Senate, although McGrath is already in the race, and I support her staunchly. I've already donated part of that $11 million she has bankrolled for her campaign.
I favor Booker trying for the Senate, but Rand Paul is up for reelection two years later and he is a major embarrassment for this state. Booker oughta keep his powder dry and ponder running in 2022.
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