Cory Booker Endorses Ben Jealous

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has endorsed former NAACP head Ben Jealous to be Maryland’s next governor. Booker and Jealous are slated to campaign together at an event on Thursday afternoon. It may be awkward for the Senator should he run into his CBC colleague Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) whose wife, Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, announced her candidacy last week. Other contenders include Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz; state Senator Richard S. Madaleno Jr.; high-tech entrepreneur Alec Ross; former Venable law firm managing partner Jim Shea; and Krishanti Vignarajah, a former policy advisor to First Lady Michelle Obama. More here.