Newark Mayor Cory Booker is expected to win Tuesday’s special primary election for U.S. Senate in New Jersey. If he does, he’ll be well on his way to becoming Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). And if that happens, he now says, he’ll step down from the start-up he set up with the help of some very wealthy friends.“If I become a United States Senator, I will step off the board, put my holdings in a public trust,” Booker told NBC News in an interview on Monday, in response to a question about whether his involvement in a struggling video curation website was “cashing in on your public office.”
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