NJ.com – Matt Friedman
…Despite Menendez’s reticence, the press conference was a show of political support for the senator by his Democratic colleagues, who took pictures with him and praised him, none more than his Senate colleague, Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
Booker urged his colleagues to applaud loudly for Menendez, and said that the senator was his “go-to guy” when Booker was mayor of Newark.
“I am the Robin to his Batman. The Starsky to his Hutch. On bad days, the Laverne to his Shirley,” Booker said.
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-9th Dist.) made no mention of superheroes or 70s sitcoms in his praise of Menendez.
“All of us should be thanking Robert Menendez, our senator,” he said.
And Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop praised Menendez for helping get the light rail started in Jersey City as a member of the U.S. House.
“If you go back to the mid-90s, we are grateful to the advocacy of Senator Menendez for making that a reality,” Fulop said…
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