Cory Booker: “The issue for us right now is not the speed with which we are getting this done, it is waiting for the funding.”

Sysco’s action represents an effort to vertically integrate the food distribution space and eliminate a competitor price check that helps maintain lower-cost options.

We have a governor that's saying this is unacceptable. We're gonna make sure that we get to the bottom of it. People need to be held accountable.

There’s all these [Democratic] priorities that are not reflected in that text, and we’re not going to support it.

Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, watching a version of that spectacle, called it 'counterfeit masculinity,' toughness performed to paper over the absence of the real thing, and the phrase has stuck with me because it is exactly…