Booker gets support from Garden State Equality

Garden State Equality Action Fund, a powerful  progressive advocacy group, will back Cory Booker’s campaign for re-election to the United States Senate.  

“Long before he got to Washington — and long before defending equality was popular — Senator Booker was on the frontlines of the LGBTQ movement,” the organization said in a statement.  “Garden State Equality proudly supports its great Senator and is incredibly grateful for his contributions to the ongoing dialogue on LGBTQ equality and for using his voice on the debate stage and on the campaign trail to elevate commonly ignored issues including violence against trans women of 

Bookler faces a primary challenge from Lawrence Hamm, a former Newark Board of Education member who chairs Bernie Sanders’ New Jersey presidential campaign.