Cory Booker
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Former mayor of Newark, New Jersey
Current U.S. Senator from New Jersey
Member of the Congressional Black Caucus
Supports comprehensive immigration reform
For three consecutive years during which he served as Newark mayor, Booker claimed on his tax returns that he had “materially participated in the operation” of the Trenk DiPasquale firm, which conducted millions of dollars worth of business with the city. If Booker’s claim was true, it would have constituted an egregiuos violation of ethical standards by a government official. Booker spokesman Kevin Griffis, however, told the press that Booker was not obligated to disclose on his Senate financial-disclosure form the payments he had received from Trenk DiPasquale, because (according to Griffis) the money was a return on equity rather than “compensation for services rendered.” But as National Review Online notes, “If that is true, then the mayor’s tax returns are fraudulent.”
In a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai, these senators expressed concern over the fact that Sinclair had recently aired an ad showing its various local anchors reading from a corporate scriptextolling the virtue of “balanced journalism”; stating that “truth is neither politically ‘left or right’”; emphasizing the importance of a “commitment” to reporting that “seek[s] the truth and strive[s] to be fair, balanced and factual”; criticizing “some members of the media” for “us[ing] their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control ‘exactly what people think’”; and condemning “the troubling trend of irresponsible, one sided news stories plaguing our country.” Viewing the Sinclair ad as an implicit defense of President Donald Trump, who had long been under withering attack by media outlets nationwide, the senators wrote in their letter: “We are concerned that Sinclair is engaged in a systematic news distortion operation that seeks to undermine freedom of the press and the robust localism and diversity of viewpoint that is the foundation of our national broadcasting laws.” “We have strong concerns,” they added, “that Sinclair has violated the public interest obligation inherent in holding broadcast licenses. Sinclair may have violated the FCC’s longstanding policy against broadcast licensees deliberately distorting news by staging, slanting, or falsifying information.” The senators also demanded that the FCC put on hold its review of Sinclair’s potential merger with Tribune. In his response, Pai said he “must respectfully decline” the senators’ request “in light of my commitment to protecting the First Amendment and freedom of the press.” “I understand that you disliked or disagreed with the content of particular broadcasts,” he added, “but I can hardly think of an action more chilling of free speech than the federal government investigating a broadcast station because of disagreement with its news coverage or promotion of that coverage.”
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