Booker worked for the Legislative Research Commission until 2014, when he was released for appearing in a campaign video of Alison Lundergan Grimes, a candidate in the 2014 United States Senate election in Kentucky.[8] He then worked for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and West Louisville FoodPort.[9] In 2016, he ran against Gerald Neal in the Democratic Party primary election for the 33rd district of the Kentucky Senate.[10] Booker finished in third place with 20 percent of the vote, behind Neal, who received 48 percent, and Joan Stringer, who received 32 percent.[11]