Booker to Maddow: 'I'm very upset that I'm being used by the GOP'

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Booker to Maddow: 'I'm very upset that I'm being used by the GOP'
By Zachary Roth
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Mon May 21, 2012 9:50 PM EDT

Cory Booker went on The Rachel Maddow Show Monday to continue his damage control efforts.

As you've no doubt heard, the Newark mayor went on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday and described as "nauseating" the Obama campaign's attacks on Bain Capital -- the private equity firm Mitt Romney ran -- for its record of laying off workers at the companies it acquired. Booker later tried to walk the comments back, but the Romney campaign and its allies pounced on them in an effort to undermine the Obama camp's attack.

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Mayor, from all I have heard, you are an extraordinarily decent man.

But, you went on the Meet the Press, saying you were an Obama campaign surrogate and you had your surrogate talking points memo right there with you. You also said that an Obama campaign ad about Romney's "job creating" record disgusted you.

How can you possibly be surprised that the Republicans are using that against the Obama campaign and in favor of Romney?