Cory Booker shuns spotlight

Cory Booker had just cast the most controversial vote of his young Senate career to gut the chamber’s filibuster rules.

But as he walked out of the chamber, he held his tongue.

“I got a lot of thoughts,” he told POLITICO, “but I’m not going to share them right now.”

Booker is staying unusually quiet in his early days as a senator. During his first month in Washington, he avoided news conferences, TV appearances or saying much of anything that could generate ink in the national press — and his aides predict that will become the New Jersey Democrat’s style on Capitol Hill.

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The former mayor is following the same playbook as other celebrities-turned-senators like Hillary Clinton, Al Franken and Elizabeth Warren. After being elected, all of them shied away from the national press and tried to project themselves as serious senators mainly focused on the needs of their constituents.

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