Cory Booker: It's Alright If They Think I'm Gay!

Newark mayor Cory Booker is addressing gay rumors.

The candidate for the open U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey may have stepped one foot out the door and may eventually come out the closet.

The Newark mayor Cory Booker is one of the rising stars in politics. He declared his interest in running for senate a few years back to take on ailing Frank Lautenberg.

The ailing senator died this year and now it streamlined Booker's intent to run.

Now as he's now the Democratic nominee, he's getting flack from the left and the right. The left thinks that Booker is too inexperienced and they think his business intentions along with his cozy relationships with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and the Republican governor Chris Christie are too controversial.

What got the news buzzing about the Super Mayor is his love life.

The Washington Post interviews the Newark mayor and they get to talking about why he hasn't settled down with a woman.

After that, Booker says, he started dating more — although, he clarifies, not with Arianna Huffington, with whom he was rumored to have been involved. But he has kept that part of his life private because he says he needs some sacred spaces. Huffington is the president of AOL News and founder of The Huffington Post.

“Because how unfair is it to a young lady to put them in the spotlight if they haven’t signed up for that yet?” he says. “And people who think I’m gay, some part of me thinks it’s wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I’m gay, and I say, ‘So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I’m straight.’ ”

The right openly hates this guy. They think he's another Barack Obama. They think of the president as a "Socialist", "Marxist", "racist", "anti-American", "ineffective leader". That's what Booker will be facing if he should intent on running for president in 2016.

Now if he would win the U.S. Senate special election, he will serve out the remaining term. He will join Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina). Scott is the only Black senator. Mo Cowan, the first Black man to served as a Massachusetts senator. He served the term for eight months. Scott has signaled intention to run for a full term in 2014.

Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) is the current senator. He won the special election and took office this month.

The Washington Post stated that during Saturday’s events for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Cory Booker dabbed his dome with a white handkerchief on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and bellowed, “We still have work to do.” The next morning, the mayor of Newark appeared as a guest on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and bemoaned “too much division going on in our politics.”

Booker is no stranger to Washington. His parents met here. He was born here. He spent his Christmas breaks from Oxford here. Now a political sensation and media darling with nearly 1.5 million Twitter followers, the 44-year-old seems to have been engineered in a political lab to walk the halls of Congress.

He has gained a reputation for his personal involvement in public service, including going on a ten-day hunger strike outdoors to draw attention to the dangers of open-air drug dealing, living on a "food stamp" budget to raise awareness of food insecurity, shoveling the driveway of a constituent upon request, allowing Hurricane Sandy victims into his home, helping a constituent propose to his girlfriend, rescuing a dog from freezing temperatures, saving a woman from a house fire at his own risk and rescuing a dog that had been locked in a crate.

Considered one of the most prominent Democrats in New Jersey, he formally declared his candidacy for the United States Senate in the 2013 special election to succeed Frank Lautenberg, who died in office. Prior to announcing his decision to run for the Senate, Booker had been considering a run in 2014, and following this announcement Lautenberg had announced (prior to his death) that he would not seek reelection in 2014. On August 13, he won the Senate Democratic primary, and will face Steve Lonegan in the October 16 general election.