It's not quite the scandal of Anthony Weiner proportions, but Newark Mayor Cory Booker has tongues wagging over his own online Twitter flirtations.
Booker, 44, has never been married, so he doesn't have to worry about the "trust" issue. And the candidate for U.S. Senate's own tweets were fairly innocuous, though they were made to a stripper. Her tweets to him were a bit more bold.
The Portland, Oregon woman who identifies herself as Lynsie Lee on Twitter, posted a screen-grab of private messages Booker sent her
BuzzFeed reports. The messages are dated Feb. 24-26 of this year.
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Booker, who is a fervent Twitter user, struck up a correspondence with Lee after both appeared in an upcoming documentary, "Follow Friday: The Film," the
New York Daily News reports.
Lee has written several flirtatious tweets to Booker, at least one of which suggested they take their relationship offline and into real life.
She told BuzzFeed that she started what turned into a saucy exchange when she wrote Booker a public tweet that the West Coast loved him.
"The East Coast loves you, and by the East Coast, I mean me," Booker wrote back in a private message.
"Well, now I’m blushing :)" Lee responded.
"It's only fair," Booker wrote back.
Lee appears topless on her Twitter page and describes herself as as a "#stripper #model #weirdo." She works at a vegan strip club named Casa Diablo.
Lee told Buzzfeed Booker was only flattering her with the private messages. “It began with me sending an actual tweet saying that the west coast loved him, especially me. So he replied with that just to flatter me :)”
A Booker spokeswoman said in a statement to the press that Booker
"talks with people from all walks of life on Twitter."
"Really, the most shocking part of this story was learning there is a vegan strip club in Portland," the spokeswoman said.
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