Scapegoat: Cory Booker’s communications advisor pushed out over his own pro-Bain comments
Anne Torres, a veteran City Hall staffer and Booker’s communications director since August 2010, resigned her position Tuesday. Though she denied the resignation was tied to the mayor’s comments, three city officials with knowledge of personnel decisions said Torres was forced out and made the scapegoat for the mayor’s gaffe…
City officials told The Star-Ledger that Torres is being blamed for not properly preparing the mayor for his stint on “Meet the Press” — a show on which he has appeared several times before. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak for City Hall.
Torres, 29, a member of the Booker administration for six years, confirmed her resignation in a brief interview with The Star-Ledger on Tuesday, but gave little reason. She said only that it was the result of differences in how her position should be handled.
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d1carter on May 30, 2012 at 3:34 PM
I wonder if all these Booker assaults will cost Obama in Jersey?
rob verdi on May 30, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Booker is a bigger azz than already assumed.
You Eunuch, way to be accountable!
May he go under, with all his previous ‘smarts’. He deserves to fail, for this alone.
Schadenfreude on May 30, 2012 at 3:38 PM
Ah yes, we are in the days when telling the truth is a “flap.”
Very sad. And nauseating.
rbj on May 30, 2012 at 3:39 PM
“How is it under there Annie? Under the bus, I mean.”
Akzed on May 30, 2012 at 3:39 PM
Now that’s leadership!
“The buck stops there!”
He’s like a little junior Baraka.
CycloneCDB on May 30, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Booker should have just flipped to Republican and stopped this nonsense. Yeah, I know, he doesn’t line up on all issues but he was an honorable man before the Bain backtrack.
Fallon on May 30, 2012 at 3:53 PM
The war on women, alive and well in New Jersey.
JPeterman on May 30, 2012 at 3:53 PM
But now he’ll go into the annals of history like Powell, a man without a core and a soul.
Schadenfreude on May 30, 2012 at 3:56 PM
We already have enough spineless Republican’s, we don’t need another.
JPeterman on May 30, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Bring Me the Head Of
Alfredo Garcia!Anne Torres!novaculus on May 30, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Before the Bain backtrack. He was hardly spineless.
Fallon on May 30, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Ha! No kiddin’! Just once, I wish I could find a dem with spine. (Once, my kid had a t-shirt with “it must be hard to live without a spine” (when he was 15) imprinted on it. Last t-shirt he bought that I noticed (he’s now 35) had “I did it right the first time, I am NOT union-controlled.”
How’s life treating you, JP? It’s been a while.
jersey taxpayer on May 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM
Good lord. More proof that dissent isn’t tolerated on the so-called open-minded Left.
changer1701 on May 30, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Booker was right the first time. You could tell he agonized whe he was saying it. My respect went way up, and then he turned around and kissed obama and went back to being a mouth piece.
Bambi on May 30, 2012 at 4:36 PM
Pic of the Day: Diversity Is Confromity. Tolerance Is Acceptance and Approval. Choom Rations Have Been Doubled This Week In Oceania. And, We Have Always Been At War With EastAsia.
http://predicthistunpredictpast.blogspot.com/2012/05/pic-of-day-diversity-is-confromity.html
M2RB: The Beatles
Resist We Much on May 30, 2012 at 4:55 PM
You know, if/when Obama loses in November, there will be a lot of changes in the leadership of the Democrat Party. The likes of Pelosi, Hoyer, and Reid won’t be running the show much longer if the GOP retakes the entire government. So why not take a stand against these old-timers who are running the party into the ground(do it behind closed doors if you must) and set yourself up to be a more middle of the road savior in 4-8 years? Booker has completely neutered himself in this debacle. Now the party must think it has complete control over him.
Doughboy on May 30, 2012 at 4:59 PM
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OOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUU – the Choom one made me dizzy (ok – dizzier…).
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I wonder if Anna Torres is minority by birth or by marriage? Anyway, can a minority file suit against a minority for discrimination? Oh, I think you can, Anna Torres, I think you can!
ExpressoBold on May 30, 2012 at 5:12 PM
Wow, a little political moderation by a Democrat mayor and heads roll, now that’s extreme!
And then the Democrats continue their war on minorities by forcing out this loving and kind woman of Hispanic decent. Have the Democrats no shame?
RJL on May 30, 2012 at 6:30 PM