Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker got the profile treatment in The Washington Post on Monday. The newspaper suggested that up-and-coming Democrat “seems to have been engineered in a political lab to walk the halls of Congress.” And, inevitably, the topic of Waywire came up.A small video aggregation website, Booker co-founded Waywire last year and tapped his network of powerful friends and supporters to help raise $1.75 million for the venture. Booker recently disclosed that his stake in Waywire was worth between $1 and $5 million, and his role in the company has received attention in the press. And Waywire’s chief executive, Nathan Richardson, recently resigned from the company. Booker now says he might not have gotten involved at all if he had known he would running for Senate.
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