New Jersey law to let Cory Booker run for President and Senate simultaneously

[Borealis]

https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/11/booker_for_president_murphy_signs_off_on_cory_book.html

Gov. Phil Murphy just made it a lot easier for U.S. Sen. Cory Booker to run for president in 2020.

The governor signed a bill Thursday that won't force Booker, a fellow Democrat, to choose between a presidential campaign or another run for the Senate. Instead, he'll be able to run
for both at the same time.

Murphy gave final approval to legislation aptly nicknamed "Cory Booker's Law." It will will allow Booker, the New Jersey Democrat, to appear on a November ballot both as a candidate
for president or vice president, and for U.S. Senate or House.

Current law doesn't prevent anyone from doing so, but the new law "clarifies" that the prohibition on holding more than one state elective office does not apply to running for Congress
and the White House simultaneously.

Of course, the new measure doesn't only apply to Booker. Others could take advantage of it. But with the state's junior senator making trips to first-in-the-nation presidential voting
states like Iowa and New Hampshire, it's clear Booker could be the first New Jersey official to run for nationwide office since former Gov. Chris Christie's failed White House bid in 2016.

If he runs for president and doesn't win, it's likely he'll have a U.S. Senate seat to fall back on thanks to New Jersey's Democrat-controlled Legislature and Murphy. Garden State public
officials have not been able to hold more than one elective office since 2008, though those already in office could continue to run for re-election to those posts.

Booker has raised $7.7 million for his 2020 re-election through Sept. 30, more than any other incumbent up for re-election that year, according to an NJ Advance Media analysis of
Federal Election Commission filings.

Booker is considered among the top-tier candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 should he decide to run. President Donald Trump, a Republican, has taken to 
calling him out by name at his campaign rallies.

[Sableye]

its not like these sorts of things are particularly needed anyways, look at rubio who did the same thing and still got elected.

[CyclonatorZ]

For the love of god, this cunt better not get the nomination in 2020, otherwise we're fucked again. The last thing we need is another corrupt establishment politician running on the platform that "hey, I'm not Trump at least, so you fuckers better all vote for me!"

[Firgof Umbra]

How about we not elect someone to the office of President who is rewriting the law to suit their agenda while breaking norms when who we have in office is a President who is rewriting the law to suit their agenda while breaking norms.

[Alice]

Isn't Booker one of the reasons the Democratic party is so spineless and useless? How about we just make a law banning Cory Booker instead?

[Kube]

Booker has basically took almost as much in Wall St bribes as McConnell a few years ago, and is generally despised for it. I would argue he's the stereotype Democrat of NJ.

[Hail Satan]

that's been a ongoing problem since at least the 70s.

[Alice]

Well they should consider making spines mandatory. Kinda hard to work with a government that's no longer even the same taxonomical classification as you.

[Death-trooper]

Also isn't this like against Checks and Balances? Cause this basically merges the Legislative/executive branch into one thing.

[Snowmew]

This is for the election. If he wins both, he becomes president and resigns from his senator seat.