CONWAY — Close to 120 people shoehorned themselves into the lobby of Cooper Cargill Chant legal services in North Conway last Saturday for a campaign visit by newly declared presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.).
As testament to the junior New Jersey senator and former Newark mayor’s star power, attendees also were gathered in the practice’s two conference rooms and on the porch.
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