Newark, NJ Mayor Booker Says Obama Should Move on DOMA, DADT Repeal

Newark, N.J., mayor Cory Booker admitted to feeling “frustrated” and “impatient” with the Obama administration’s pace of progress on LGBT rights on Sunday, telling a group of LGBT journalists and community leaders about the “competing sentiments” he experiences as a private citizen and as an inner-city executive who can “sympathize” with the roster of problems facing the president. “I was a huge supporter of Barack Obama and still am, but I think that he needs to take some steps right now, and I think that the more people who are friends of his or associates of him get into his ear about ending ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ about repealing DOMA, about creating more inclusive employment discrimination policy, I think that we as a nation can start moving a lot further forward,” said Booker, who co-chaired the Obama campaign in the Garden State last year. “Unless you can change the federal strategy or focus on these issues, New Jersey residents will face high levels of discrimination in my opinion,” he said. Full Story from The Advocate

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