Senator Cory Booker and a complicit media
I wrote this back in September 2025 but am publishing now with recent additions.
I don’t know why I wrote this. My gut told me to dig so I did.
Screenshot Cory Booker and Alexis Lewis, both wearing Hawaiian lies, with Alexis holding up her left hand to showing the ring on her finger.
In September 2025 Senator Cory Booker announced his engagement to his girlfriend Alexis Lewis who he lived with in Washington DC and dated for 16 months.
Normally I wouldn’t bother to comment as it’s none of my business and I don’t care.
Except…the media announcement didn’t say how old Alexis Lewis was.
While stating that Cory Booker is 56 years old, it conspicuously omitted the age of his fiancée, Alexis Lewis:
“The Democratic New Jersey lawmaker, 56, announced his engagement to Alexis Lewis alongside photos from their romantic beach proposal in an Instagram post on Tuesday, Sept. 2”
So is a middle aged US Senator marrying someone much younger than him? How much younger?
I did a search: Alexis Lewis + age.
Nothing showed up except the search engine’s AI (that I never asked for) which gave me the age of a different person who has the same name.
So I did some digging. A few articles talked about how Alexis Lewis works as an employee in a real estate investment firm. Most of the articles didn’t even bother to mention her profession but the few that did called her an “employee”. I thought that was an odd way to describe her job, “a real estate investment firm employee”.
I did more digging. I found one firm, Brasa Capital Management, that shows an Alexis Lewis on their team page. The picture looks just like the person standing by Cory Booker’s side in his engagement announcement. This Alexis Lewis is listed as “SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS”.
Now why would the media downplay her role as a senior vice president of investments, which is pretty high level? And that’s when the media even bothered to mention her profession. They said she’s an “employee” in an real estate investment firm, making it sound like she’s admin or something. While admins play vital roles in any organization, that’s a bit different to being the senior vice president of investments. A very different pay grade for sure.
I kept digging. Brasa states: “Prior to joining Brasa, she served as an Economic Policy Manager for the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Economic Development. While in this role at the Mayor’s Office, Ms. Lewis spearheaded City efforts to drive commercial development in South Los Angeles and co-led the Mayor’s Evolve Entertainment Fund, a public-private partnership.”
Screenshot Alexis Lewis’ bio on Brasa Capital Management’s website
So Alexis Lewis worked for the Mayor of Los Angeles and while in that role she served corporations and developers by driving commercial development. When they say she “co-led the Mayor’s Evolve Entertainment Fund, a public-private partnership”, that’s another way of saying she funneled public money into private hands for corporate profit. To make it really clear, the public will never see that money again and rich people walk away with pockets bulging.
Alexis Lewis also has an MBA from Cornell, an Ivy League school.
I looked a bit closer at this Brasa Capital Management she works for. Brasa describes themselves this way: “Brasa Capital is a real estate investment manager with flexibility to invest across the capital stack of middle-market residential and commercial assets located in the Western US and Texas.”
So Alexis Lewis’ high powered job invests money for real estate moghuls who are seizing properties across the western United States, driving up rents, and pushing poor people out of their cities.
I wondered if maybe Brasa’s Senior Vice President of Investments wasn’t the Alexis Lewis that Senator Cory Booker got engaged to? Just because they look alike and sound alike, the identity should be confirmed.
Since they were my only lead, I sent an email to Brasa Capital Management to ask for clarification if this is indeed the same Alexis Lewis who is engagement to Cory Booker. As there was mystery regarding her age, I asked Brasa to also confirm the age of their Senior Vice President of Investments, Alexis Lewis.
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I waited all the way till now to hear back from them but they still haven’t responded. They didn’t even reply to decline to comment.
In my email to Brasa, I requested information about Alexis Lewis so that I could showcase her leadership example to young women and girls I mentor. Well, here I am, showcasing her leadership example. Enjoy.
Cory Booker said in their engagement announcement: “She has transformed me, helping me to ground and center my inner life, and discover the joys of building a nurturing home with someone you love.”
I wonder if all the poor people who’ve been gentrified out of their homes in Los Angeles and across the western United States feel like Alexis Lewis helped to “ground” them or “discover the joys of building a nurturing home”.
Notice that your media didn’t tell you any of this back when their engagement was announced. They downplayed her job, if they mentioned it at all. They focused on Alexis Lewis looking just like Cory Booker’s ex, Rosario Dawson, which is certainly creepy, but the money is somewhat more important to me. The media ignored the money to gush about what Senator Cory Booker was wearing while going down on one knee.
What about all the people who are down on their knees in poverty and houselessness?
I checked just now and found that CNN did finally mention Alex Lewis’ job the day after the engagement announcement:
“Lewis is a vice president of investments at Brasa Capital Management, a real estate investment firm, according to the company’s website. She previously worked as an economic development aide in the Los Angeles mayor’s office.”
That’s all they said about it, “according to the company’s website.” So they didn’t bother to ask Alexis Lewis herself… Nor did they even ask the company, Brasa, the way I did.
I also checked to see if there were any updates on her age. This The List article published December 1 revealed her age as 38. Senator Cory Booker is 56. That means he’s 18 years older than her, old enough to be her father.
Even while revealing the age gap, the article buried the revelation below several paragraphs and multiple smiling pictures, as if to distract the reader into not noticing her age.
Senator Cory Booker and Alexis Lewis are now married. Engaged in September 2025, married in November 2025. It was a whirlwind romance between a politician, 56 and a real estate hawk, 38 and young enough to be his daughter. They also mention that Alexis Lewis is Jewish. They also go on about how Alexis Lewis looks like Rosario Dawson.
This Newsweek article published on November 30 is months too late but they do state at the top of the article that Alexis Lewis is 38 and…
“She is a Washington, D.C., native and the youngest of three children. Her father, Curtis Jerome Lewis, is a labor attorney who found his own firm in 1986.”
That’s it. That’s all they got. What Labor issues did her father’s firm work on? What cases did he engage with? What values did that teach Alexis Lewis? Newsweek didn’t think to ask any of these questions.
In the engagement announcement pictures, Cory Booker and Alexis Lewis were both wearing Hawaiian leis. The location seemed to be in Hawaii.
Hasn’t Hawaii been devastated by real estate developers? Haven’t Hawaiian people constantly talked about how they’re being robbed of their homes and land by real estate developers?
This situation reminds me of Prince Harry and Meghan’s wedding in London. The government got rid of the houseless people in the area so they weren’t an eyesore ruining the royal wedding. Note that the government didn’t get rid of those houseless people by giving them housing. The government just kicked them out of that particular area for the duration of the wedding.
Isn’t it somehow insulting that Senator Cory Booker and his real estate investment wife celebrated their engagement in Hawaii wearing leis — a clear cultural symbol of Hawaii’s Indigenous culture and identity — while ignoring the housing plight of the people in Hawaii?
I feel insulted and I’m not even Hawaiian.
But maybe Alexis Lewis is Hawaiian. I don’t know because I can’t find any connection she might have to Hawaii. I now know she’s a Washington DC Native and Jewish, but that doesn’t mean her ancestry can’t still be mixed with Hawaiian. This CNN article suggested that she has some connection to Hawaii in how Cory Booker described the engagement party:
“And we walked out and there was a hula dancer, a Hawaiian dancer, a Polynesian dancer, and a guy with a ukulele. And then after their second song, other performers came up and sang a song that’s really meaningful to her, that she told me since one of our early dates, that she wants at her wedding,” he said.”
So is she Hawaiian or Polynesian, or does she just really like ukuleles, CNN and Senator Booker? Or did the song that was meaningful to her have nothing to do with any of those things?
But if Alexis Lewis is Hawaiian, why not just say that? What’s with the weird alluding? It’s another detail mysteriously omitted about her by the media.
Cory Booker, meanwhile, happens to be a mix of Black, white, and some Native although he was not raised Indigenous and has no Indigenous cultural ties to any particular tribe that I know of (let me know if you know more about this).
If she is Hawaiian, she wouldn’t be the first non-white person to sell out to the colonizing empire. She married a sell out 18 years older than her, after all, in a whirlwind romance.
Newsweek ended their article talking about Cory Booker’s filibuster earlier this year:
“It also piqued interest in Booker as a potential presidential hopeful in 2028. America hasn’t elected an unmarried president since 1884.”
So we should all expect a President Cory Booker? A married President, of course, 18 years older than is his real estate predator wife. We currently have a President who is 24 years older than his wife and that’s working out wonderfully, as everyone can see.
I hope they’re happy in their married life together, the same I wish for any couple.
I also hope that much older men stop preying on younger women.
I also hope that poor people have access to safe, healthy, clean, affordable, sustainable housing.
I also hope that Indigenous peoples get their LAND BACK.