user: Question: The stripper who was exchanging Twitter messages with New Jersey Senate hopeful Cory Booker has tried to downplay their conversations after they were exposed on Wednesday. Booker, the 44-year-old Newark mayor who is leading in the race to fill his state’s empty Senate seat, is an active Twitter user and regularly converses with constituents and random followers. His social media habit raised some eyebrows this week after the website Buzzfeed disclosed that he direct messaged with Lynsie Lee, a stripper from Oregon. 'Nothing secret or sexy': Lynsie Lee (left) says that she was just innocently flirting with Newark Mayor Cory Booker (right) Newark Mayor Cory Booker has exchanged flirty messages with a stripper from Portland named Lynsie Lee (pictured) Lee told The Associated Press that the interaction was 'G-rated flirting' that had been blown out of proportion. She called it a '1 out of 10' compared with some of the messages she receives. 'I flirted with him publically, as I do with a lot of people,' Lee said about Booker. 'There was nothing secret or sexy about it.' She said she and mayor never communicated outside Twitter. Lee said she resents any implication that she deliberately leaked the conversation for fame or money. Booker and Lee both had appeared in a documentary about using Twitter. In February, Lee wrote Booker to say the West Coast loved the Newark mayor. Booker wrote back to say the East Coast loves her, 'and by the East Coast, I mean me.' 'Well now I'm blushing,' Lee wrote back. 'It's only fair,' Booker responded. The woman, who goes by the name 'Lynsie Lee' on Twitter, shared direct messages between her and Booker from February. Lynsie Lee tweeted this screen shot of a private message with Booker after a woman tweeted that she and Booker, who is running for Senate, often privately message each other. Lee provided a screenshot of the exchange to BuzzFeed, which published a story Wednesday. She said a jokey, catty feud among the girls in the documentary — all of whom, she said, had a crush on Booker — led her to post the image. She also had fun with her newfound political notoriety. 'If you come to see me at @CasaDiablo tonight, bring your wallets. I'm prime meat for the next couple of days! ;)' she tweeted Thursday. The playful exchange is typical of how Booker engages on Twitter, sending out cheeky answers to marriage proposals, responding to a man with a play on the lyrics to Jay-Z's '99 Problems,' retweeting people with risque usernames and regularly asking followers to send him direct messages. Booker brushed off the exchanges with Lee on Thursday, reiterating that he communicates with 'thousands of people' on Twitter. Booker said he doesn't care what people do for work and the 'puritanical judgment' of Lee was 'over the top.' Unique: Johnny Diablo Zukle is the owner of the vegan strip club where Lee works. Rules: Though Lee is not a vegan herself, the strip club takes an ethical stance against animal abuse. Similar interests: Lee and Booker were featured in the same documentary about Twitter. Booker said he talks to everybody and has no plans to stop. 'You guys might have some prurient interest,' he said, 'but at the end of the day this is about extending kindness to folks.' Lee works at a vegan strip club, making the story even more bizarre given the fact that Casa Diablo claims to be the first of its kind. Booker is a vegetarian, though not vegan. Lee said she's also not vegan. Playful: Lee said that her messages with Booker are far less spicy than other flirtations she has online. Self aware: She jokingly posted on Twitter that she will be 'prime meat' for the next couple days because of her new-found popularity. Booker Republican opponent, Steve Lonegan, called the tweets another distraction in a 'rather bizarre campaign of a cult personality,' complaining that the issues have taken a back seat to Booker's celebrity and use of social media. Booker joked that the fascination had to do with more than a strip club. 'I really think it's because the press corps is obsessed with vegan living,' he said.
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Important parts: The woman, who goes by the name 'Lynsie Lee' on Twitter, shared direct messages between her and Booker from February. Lynsie Lee works at Casa Diablo, a vegan. strip club in Portland, Oregon. She describes herself in her Twitter bio as. 'wits and tits #stripper #model #weirdo' Lynsie Lee posted the articles on her Twitter page and. encouraged her followers to donate to Booker's campaign.
By. Sam Webb. PUBLISHED:. 11:09 EST, 31 January 2013. |. UPDATED:. 12:35 EST, 31 January 2013. Mr Trump will name the second golf course at his resort for his Scottish mother, Mary McLeod. American billionaire Donald Trump will name the second golf course on his Scottish estate after his late mother, Mary McLeod. U.S. Apprentice star Mr Trump has confirmed the second 18-hole facility at Trump International Golf Links in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, will be called The. McLeod Course, as a tribute to his mother,. who was born in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis. The first site opened last summer, despite objections from locals. Mr Trump told the Press and Journal: 'It was a very easy decision for me to make. 'My mother loved Scotland and I wanted to create a lasting tribute to her. 'We have a lot of land and we are going to do our very best to make the second course as good as the first.' On the resort's website, Mr Trump. states: 'She grew up in a simple croft until she landed in Manhattan at. the age of 20 and her first language was Gaelic.' He made the announcement even as he continues to fight proposals for 11 giant turbines off the Aberdeenshire coast, which Mr Trump says will spoil the view from his golfing resort. The billionaire believes the structures, each as high as a 64-storey building, will besmirch the unspoilt landscape surrounding the £750million, 1,200 acre complex. In the past Trump’s lawyers have threatened Scottish agencies supporting a potential offshore wind farm being built near the site of his golf resort. Mary McLeod was born in Stornoway and emigrated to New York aged 20. Mary Anne married Fred Trump, the son of German immigrants, in 1936. They had five children together. As well as the second 18-hole links golf course, Trump hopes to build a five-star hotel, luxury holiday homes and a residential village. He added: 'But I won't build it, if the view is ruined by the monstrosities which are going to ruin Scotland.' The golf course, which opened last July, has been beset by controversy. The property magnate has been accused of bullying local people into accepting his plans. Trump and his mother. Right, his mother in 1932, four years before she married Donald Trump's father Fred. U.S. property mogul Donald Trump during a media event on the sand dunes of the Menie estate. There are accusations he bullied locals objecting to the site being built. Ambitious: An artist's impression showing how billionaire Donald Trump's golf course on the Menie estate in Aberdeenshire will look when finished. In October, You’ve Been Trumped, a documentary by British filmmaker Anthony Baxter chronicled the tycoon’s battle against residents, was shown on BBC 2. In December the resort was battered by North Sea storms, causing a large chunk of pathway to fall away. The collapsed path, near the fourth tee, had been covered in neatly trimmed turf but now lies exposed to the elements with pipes running out of the ground.

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assistant: Billionaire says second course will be a tribute to his Scottish mother. Mary McLeod was born in Stornoway and emigrated to Manhattan at 20. However, he will not build the course if a planned wind farm is built nearby.