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To: i-node who wrote (656065)	5/22/2012 6:48:12 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577814

Mayor Cory Booker received over $565K from Bain + the financial industry for 2002 campaign I know reading isn't your thing, tejek, but you might give it a try next time. Among those contributing to his campaign were John Connaughton ($2,000), Steve Pagliuca ($2,200), Jonathan Lavine ($1,000) — all of Bain Capital. It looks to me like Bain and Wall Street were big supporters of his campaign............at least that's what it says in the article. Of course the article assumes one can read English: They were among his earliest and most generous backers. Contributions to his 2002 campaign from venture capitalists, investors, and big Wall Street bankers brought him more than $115,000 for his 2002 campaign. Among those contributing to his campaign were John Connaughton ($2,000), Steve Pagliuca ($2,200), Jonathan Lavine ($1,000) — all of Bain Capital. While the forms are not totally clear, it appears the campaign raised less than $800,000 total, making this a significant percentage. He and his slate also jointly raised funds for the “Booker Team for Newark” joint committee. They received more than $450,000 for the 2002 campaign from the sector — including a pair of $15,400 contributions from Bain Capital Managing Directors Joshua Bekenstein and Mark Nunnelly. It appears that for the initial campaign and runoff, the slate raised less than $4 million — again making this a sizable chunk. In all — just in his first Mayoral run — Booker’s committees received more than $565,000 from the people he was defending. At least $36,000 of that came from folks at Romney’s old firm. I don't know.........it looks like Booker has some conflicting loyalties and someone called in their chits. It might explain his strange support of Bain and Romney.