NEWARK, N.J. - Twitter is U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker’s preferred method of communication.
But his social-media habit stirred a fuss this week after the website Buzzfeed disclosed that he direct-messaged a stripper from Oregon.
The 44-year-old Booker, who is single, exchanged the private messages earlier this year with Lynsie Lee. She works at Casa Diablo in Portland, Ore.
Booker and Lee had appeared in a documentary about using Twitter. In February, Lee wrote Booker to say the West Coast loved the Newark mayor. Booker wrote back to say the East Coast loves her, “and by the East Coast, I mean me.”
The playful exchange is typical of how Booker engages on Twitter, sending out cheeky answers to marriage proposals and regularly asking followers to send him direct messages.
Booker brushed off the exchanges with Lee on Thursday, reiterating that he communicates with “thousands of people” on Twitter. Booker said the “puritanical judgment” of Lee was “over the top.”
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