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Cory Booker giddy as Democrats vote against 'defund the police': GOP senator 'has given us the gift'
Fox News ^ | 8/11/21 | Marisa Schultz

Posted on 08/11/2021 3:49:16 PM PDT by Libloather

A fired-up Sen. Cory Booker praised GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville for forcing a vote Tuesday in the Senate on defunding the police, saying he wanted to "hug" his GOP colleague for putting to rest "scurrilous" accusations that Senate Democrats want to strip law enforcement of money.

Tuberville, R-Ala., authored an amendment to Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget resolution that would decrease federal funds to localities that defund the police. In teeing up the politically charged vote, Tuberville said in a floor speech that "opposing my amendment is a vote in support of defunding the police and against the men and women in blue."

If the intent was to get Democrats to vote against the measure to make a point that liberals want to defund the police, Booker said he was "excited" to squash that opportunity.

"This senator has given us the gift that finally, once and for all, we can put to bed this scurrilous accusation that somebody in this great esteemed body would want to defund the police," an overly animated Booker, D-N.J., said Tuesday night from the Senate floor.

Booker encouraged all of his colleagues to not walk, but "sashay" down to the well of the Senate to vote in favor of Tuberville's amendment to "put to rest the lies" that Senate Democrats want to defund law enforcement.

"This is a gift," Booker said. "If it wasn't complete abdication of Senate procedures and esteem I would walk over there and hug my colleague from Alabama!"

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: alabama; booker; corybooker; defund; democrat; newjersey; police; tommytuberville
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Booker is pro-cop. Got it. Why didn't he speak up last year? Frickin' dipstick. Don't forget - Gropin' Joe beat this numbnut on the debate stage.
1 posted on 08/11/2021 3:49:16 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Take away his security team and the capitol police.....we’ll find out just how quick he wants to defund things.


2 posted on 08/11/2021 3:51:38 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Libloather

Who knew Spartacus was LGBTQ+? (Did I miss any letters?)


3 posted on 08/11/2021 3:53:01 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Libloather

Hey Booker Democrats everywhere are defunding the Police


4 posted on 08/11/2021 3:55:29 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Trying to recall the name of that film he starred in...


5 posted on 08/11/2021 3:58:17 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Libloather
 
 
Thought I had heard the last of this loser a long time ago.
 
 

6 posted on 08/11/2021 3:59:29 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: butlerweave

Vote Totals? R? D?


7 posted on 08/11/2021 4:04:27 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: Libloather

Booker’s a complete weasel.


8 posted on 08/11/2021 4:05:09 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: Libloather

This could serve to undermine the woke white left-wing base as much as anything.


9 posted on 08/11/2021 4:05:27 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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A huge blunder on Booker’s part. The non-corporatist, energetic, collectivist wing of the Democrat party is deadly serious about defunding the police.

This would be like a Republican bragging that he was voting to make sure there was more funding for abortion.


10 posted on 08/11/2021 4:15:21 PM PDT by Codeflier (Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals. )
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To: Libloather

so while they are hugging each other over this completely irrelevant vote, the country is burning. Awesome guys, keep up the great work.


11 posted on 08/11/2021 4:17:05 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: Libloather

Babylon Booker


12 posted on 08/11/2021 4:20:18 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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If he wanted to “put it to rest” he would have introduced the bill himself. AssClown!!


13 posted on 08/11/2021 4:20:51 PM PDT by PeatownPaul
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To: Libloather

Booker may have voted NOT to defund the police, but he seems to have no problem spouting bare faced lies.


14 posted on 08/11/2021 4:21:07 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (As if.)
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To: Libloather

Calm down there Spartacus.


15 posted on 08/11/2021 4:24:08 PM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: Libloather

Booker couldn’t have done this on his own?


16 posted on 08/11/2021 4:24:44 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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Sorry, Spartacus, but the word in the ‘hood is that T-Bone is unhappy with this vote.


17 posted on 08/11/2021 4:30:24 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: JennysCool

Now the extreme left will not vote for Booker because he is pro cop.


18 posted on 08/11/2021 4:42:14 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (I got the shot. Not because I wanted to. Because I had to, in violation of my civil rights.)
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A huge blunder on Booker’s part. The non-corporatist, energetic, collectivist wing of the Democrat party is deadly serious about defunding the police.

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sander voted for it. Sounds a lot more like Tubberville's blunder.

19 posted on 08/11/2021 4:50:57 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Tallguy
Who knew Spartacus was LGBTQ+? (Did I miss any letters?)

Last I heard there were 26 letters in the alphabet, but liberals tell us there are 48 different "genders".

20 posted on 08/11/2021 6:22:25 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far is that most of the news media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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