Newark, N.J.’s Democratic Mayor Cory Booker expressed a difference of opinion on Meet the Press Sunday morning with the Obama campaign’s effort to paint Mitt Romney as a greedy Wall Street type by going after Bain Capital.
Booker, who normally agrees with the Obama White House on most issues, said that the attacks on Bain Capital made him “very uncomfortable.”
Defending Bain Capital, Booker said, “I live in a state where pension funds, unions are investing in companies like Bain Capital, they’ve done a lot to support business, to grow business.”
The Obama campaign released ads last Monday attacking Romney as a job destroyer who fired over 700 workers.
“This kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. It’s nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough,” Booker said. “Stop attacking private equity. Stop attacking Jeremiah Wright.”
Booker who referred to himself as a “surrogate” for the Obama campaign urged both parties to focus on the issues and said: “It’s going to be a small campaign about this crap or a big campaign in my opinion about the issues the American public cares about.”
