In 1992 as a graduate student at Stanford now Senator from New Jersey Cory Booker (D) penned an Op-Ed for the Stanford Daily entitled So much for stealing second. In it, he details that in 1984 while at a New Year’s Eve Party he groped a woman’s breast without her consent.
The first time she pushed his hand away, the second time, as Booker recalls, he hit his ‘mark.’ Booker continues that after the assault he and the woman struck up a cordial friendship and that she confided in him that that night she had been drunk and unsure about what she was doing.
Senator Booker goes on to state that while attending Stanford he saw the error of his ways. He claims that he moved away from viewing sexual relations as being best achieved through “luck, guile, strategy, or coercion.”
To a more progressive sentiment, one clearly displayed in his “soliloquy titled ‘The Oppressive Nature Of Male Dominated Society And Its Violent Manifestations: Rape, Anorexia, Battered Wives.’