Democratic Senator Cory Booker is rumored to be dating a woman who worked with him on his mayoral campaign.
Booker met Chanda Gibson, a single mother-of-two, when the pair worked together on his 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey.
A source told Page Six the pair have been dating ‘on and off for years’, but for some reason, their dalliances have been kept strictly under wraps.
‘No one could understand why he told her their relationship is secret,’ the source said.
Gibson and Booker have appeared at several functions together (pictured at the opening night of the Prudential Center in New Jersey in 2007)
Democratic senator Cory Booker (left) is rumored to be dating Chanda Gibson (right), a long-time romantic interest who moved across the country to work on his 2002 mayoral campaign
At this point in time, it has not been confirmed if Booker, 49, and Gibson, 44, are actively dating.
Booker is now a Senator for New Jersey, who serves on the judiciary committee that approved Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS nomination.
He spoke out strongly against Kavanaugh, and is thought to be considering a 2020 presidential run.
Gibson is currently the executive director of the Council of Urban Professionals, but left her job as an attorney 16 years ago to help Booker.
On her Linkedin account, Gibson says once she moved from California to New Jersey, she never looked back.
Booker has made headlines recently for his appearance in SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s senate judiciary hearings (pictured), where he took a strong stance against the President’s pick
After her six months working as Booker’s scheduler, she went on to help found America Needs You – New Jersey, which helps to mentor first generation college students, and later spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs.
‘I am originally from California but left my legal career for the east coast in 2002 to support now United State Senator Cory Booker’s first mayoral race in Newark, New Jersey,’ she wrote.
‘Quite unexpectedly, I never left!’
She told Forbes in April that Booker was a ‘spiritual adviser’ to her, and when he offered her a job on his campaign, she was eager to take it.
She said during a moment of existential crisis the politician told her: ‘If you want to do something you believe in, quit your job and come help me run for Mayor’.
‘Talk about a risk,’ she told the magazine.
‘Within eight days, I had quit my job and found myself sleeping on an apartment floor in Newark. I had never been to Newark. I had never been to the East Coast!
‘But I believed in Cory. I believed in what he was trying to do.’