DNC 2012: Cory Booker Calls Jerusalem Omission ‘Unfortunate’

The co-chair of the Democratic National Cenvention’s platform committee, Newark Mayor Cory Booker said that the decision to remove a plank calling Jerusalem the capital of Israel was an “unfortunate omission,” reports Politico’s Ken Robillard. Booker insisted that any “mistakes” that he and the other leaders of the platform committee made should not detract “from the point that we have a president of the United States who believes both in God, we all know that, but also believes in that plank [supporting Jerusalem].”

 

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