Why isn’t booker getting any traction?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:K

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where's the Annie Liebowitz - Vanity Fair cover for someone who isn't a straight white male - riding in like the cavalry to rescue us all?

Hahahahahaha.

Do an analysis of the last 52 covers of VN.

I make this prediction: whites and Hispanics and Asian Americans are ALL underrepresented.

Prove me wrong.

Wait, you think Vanity Fair has black people on the cover every week? What exactly are you getting at?

I don't know, I don't subscribe to VN.

It's just an informed guess.

Shall we see?

I frankly prefer someone else to conduct the analysis, to prevent my own potential bias to prove myself right

Yeah, that’s not a very informed guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:K

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where's the Annie Liebowitz - Vanity Fair cover for someone who isn't a straight white male - riding in like the cavalry to rescue us all?

Hahahahahaha.

Do an analysis of the last 52 covers of VN.

I make this prediction: whites and Hispanics and Asian Americans are ALL underrepresented.

Prove me wrong.

Wait, you think Vanity Fair has black people on the cover every week? What exactly are you getting at?

I don't know, I don't subscribe to VN.

It's just an informed guess.

Shall we see?

I frankly prefer someone else to conduct the analysis, to prevent my own potential bias to prove myself right

April is Beto. March was Miley Cyrus. February was Laura Dern. January was Saoirse Ronan, Gregory Chalamet, and Chadwick Boseman. So, one non-white person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Single.

shh

Rosario doesn't know this . . .

It's going to come up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I won’t vote for him in the primary because of what happened with the Newark school money from FB. If it’s him vs. Trump in the general election, i’ll Vote for him, but not in the primary.

The state was in charge of Newark’s public schools for 22 years until a year ago.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/newark/2018/02/01/all-eyes-are-on-newark-as-the-city-regains-control-of-its-schools-a-look-at-whats-to-come/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's a show pony. Not a work horse.

You know nothing about his time as a Mayor.

He challenged the teacher unions, the #1 donors to Dems, so he's doomed.

Anything else to know?

“Did you hear about the time Cory Booker chased down an armed robber in front of city hall? How about when he ran into a burning building to save a woman’s life? Or when he shoveled snow from residents’ driveways after a blizzard? All true. He also rode with cops on night patrol, answered citizen complaints over Twitter and lived for eight years in a high-rise apartment where many low-income tenants rely on federal housing assistance. The story of Booker’s two terms running Newark reads like a tall tale or even a comic book: Cory Booker, Supermayor.”

“New grocery stores and hotels—the first in decades—have opened. Panasonic North America relocated its headquarters downtown, as did Audible.com, which provides audio information and entertainment. Prudential Financial is building a new tower. The city reported $1 billion in real estate development in 2011 and 2012—about a third of all development across the state in sheer square footage. Another $2 billion is in the pipeline for the next two years. Bolstered by a growing immigrant population, Newark finally bucked its 60-year depopulation trend in the 2010 Census. What Booker couldn’t do with city resources, he sought to accomplish through public-private partnerships, attracting millions in philanthropic investments to further his policy agenda.”

“Entire new municipal departments have sprouted up, reflecting a different set of policy ambitions—not only the hiring of a philanthropy liaison and the creation of a prisoner re-entry office, but also a new sustainability office and the establishment of a community planning department. The city is poised to pass an overhaul of its zoning code, the first update of its kind in more than 50 years. “He’s tried to modernize the machinery of government,” says Roland Anglin, a professor of metropolitan studies at Rutgers.”

“The most recent budget—adopted this summer—uses less in state aid and other one-time infusions of cash, such as property sales, while reducing homeowners’ property taxes by 13 percent.”

https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-what-cory-booker-accomplished.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's a show pony. Not a work horse.

You know nothing about his time as a Mayor.

He challenged the teacher unions, the #1 donors to Dems, so he's doomed.

Anything else to know?

““We were caught in one of the deepest economic downturns,” he said. “When the economy is like that, there’s a flu in inner cities like Newark. But even with that as the backdrop, all this stuff you see now, it wasn’t there. It was barren. There wasn’t talk about Whole Foods. There wasn’t talk about Panasonic. There wasn’t talk about Prudential building a second tower.”

“Booker’s development went beyond the central business core. “We built veterans housing on Clinton Avenue in the South Ward, that’s not a downtown neighborhood. We built Teacher’s Village, created a village where there was no neighborhood.”

Pretty good warts and all assessment here:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/cory-booker-hillary-clinton-veep-newark-214030

And honestly, it’s an accomplishment for a mayor of Newark not to go to jail. Booker’s predecessor was convicted of five counts of fraud by a federal jury and sentenced to 27 months. The guy before that was indicted for bribery and for stealing funds from a school construction project; those charges were dismissed but he still pleaded guilty to tax evasion. The guy before THAT was found guilty by a federal jury on 64 counts of conspiracy and extortion and sentenced to ten years. Then there was one guy who was OK, but before him there was a guy charged by a grand jury with receiving kickbacks. Culture of corruption is an understatement. It’s something to take charge of a failing city with a scandalous history during a worldwide recession and come out ahead.

[Anonymous]

You sound scared, bro.

All these comments about everyone running for the Dems.

Wonder who you work for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
1. It's time for the women.

2. That particular man has questionable ties to big pharma.

The big pharma ties is why I would not support him for president.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
1. It's time for the women.

2. That particular man has questionable ties to big pharma.

The big pharma ties is why I would not support him for president.

In the primaries, I agree with you, but would that be disqualifying for you in the general versus Trump or Pence?

Not me. I will never vote for another GOP in my life under this current ideology or configuration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:K

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where's the Annie Liebowitz - Vanity Fair cover for someone who isn't a straight white male - riding in like the cavalry to rescue us all?

Hahahahahaha.

Do an analysis of the last 52 covers of VN.

I make this prediction: whites and Hispanics and Asian Americans are ALL underrepresented.

Prove me wrong.

Wait, you think Vanity Fair has black people on the cover every week? What exactly are you getting at?

I don't know, I don't subscribe to VN.

It's just an informed guess.

Shall we see?

I frankly prefer someone else to conduct the analysis, to prevent my own potential bias to prove myself right

April is Beto. March was Miley Cyrus. February was Laura Dern. January was Saoirse Ronan, Gregory Chalamet, and Chadwick Boseman. So, one non-white person.

3 men, 3 women.

5 white, 1 black, zero Hispanic or Asian.

Perfect gender balance.

Blacks overrpresented, Hispanics and Asian absolutely ignored.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's a show pony. Not a work horse.

You know nothing about his time as a Mayor.

He challenged the teacher unions, the #1 donors to Dems, so he's doomed.

Anything else to know?

“Did you hear about the time Cory Booker chased down an armed robber in front of city hall? How about when he ran into a burning building to save a woman’s life? Or when he shoveled snow from residents’ driveways after a blizzard? All true. He also rode with cops on night patrol, answered citizen complaints over Twitter and lived for eight years in a high-rise apartment where many low-income tenants rely on federal housing assistance. The story of Booker’s two terms running Newark reads like a tall tale or even a comic book: Cory Booker, Supermayor.”

“New grocery stores and hotels—the first in decades—have opened. Panasonic North America relocated its headquarters downtown, as did Audible.com, which provides audio information and entertainment. Prudential Financial is building a new tower. The city reported $1 billion in real estate development in 2011 and 2012—about a third of all development across the state in sheer square footage. Another $2 billion is in the pipeline for the next two years. Bolstered by a growing immigrant population, Newark finally bucked its 60-year depopulation trend in the 2010 Census. What Booker couldn’t do with city resources, he sought to accomplish through public-private partnerships, attracting millions in philanthropic investments to further his policy agenda.”

“Entire new municipal departments have sprouted up, reflecting a different set of policy ambitions—not only the hiring of a philanthropy liaison and the creation of a prisoner re-entry office, but also a new sustainability office and the establishment of a community planning department. The city is poised to pass an overhaul of its zoning code, the first update of its kind in more than 50 years. “He’s tried to modernize the machinery of government,” says Roland Anglin, a professor of metropolitan studies at Rutgers.”

“The most recent budget—adopted this summer—uses less in state aid and other one-time infusions of cash, such as property sales, while reducing homeowners’ property taxes by 13 percent.”

https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-what-cory-booker-accomplished.html

Hey, the guy may be the most amazing in the universe, but he's doomed -- the teacher unions hate him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Single.

So that’s, uh, code for, uh, gay?

And that’s a negative, why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's a show pony. Not a work horse.

You know nothing about his time as a Mayor.

He challenged the teacher unions, the #1 donors to Dems, so he's doomed.

Anything else to know?

“Did you hear about the time Cory Booker chased down an armed robber in front of city hall? How about when he ran into a burning building to save a woman’s life? Or when he shoveled snow from residents’ driveways after a blizzard? All true. He also rode with cops on night patrol, answered citizen complaints over Twitter and lived for eight years in a high-rise apartment where many low-income tenants rely on federal housing assistance. The story of Booker’s two terms running Newark reads like a tall tale or even a comic book: Cory Booker, Supermayor.”

“New grocery stores and hotels—the first in decades—have opened. Panasonic North America relocated its headquarters downtown, as did Audible.com, which provides audio information and entertainment. Prudential Financial is building a new tower. The city reported $1 billion in real estate development in 2011 and 2012—about a third of all development across the state in sheer square footage. Another $2 billion is in the pipeline for the next two years. Bolstered by a growing immigrant population, Newark finally bucked its 60-year depopulation trend in the 2010 Census. What Booker couldn’t do with city resources, he sought to accomplish through public-private partnerships, attracting millions in philanthropic investments to further his policy agenda.”

“Entire new municipal departments have sprouted up, reflecting a different set of policy ambitions—not only the hiring of a philanthropy liaison and the creation of a prisoner re-entry office, but also a new sustainability office and the establishment of a community planning department. The city is poised to pass an overhaul of its zoning code, the first update of its kind in more than 50 years. “He’s tried to modernize the machinery of government,” says Roland Anglin, a professor of metropolitan studies at Rutgers.”

“The most recent budget—adopted this summer—uses less in state aid and other one-time infusions of cash, such as property sales, while reducing homeowners’ property taxes by 13 percent.”

https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-what-cory-booker-accomplished.html

Hey, the guy may be the most amazing in the universe, but he's doomed -- the teacher unions hate him.

He won a contested Democratic primary in New Jersey handily, so perhaps that’s false or, if true, not the kryptonite you think it is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's a show pony. Not a work horse.

You know nothing about his time as a Mayor.

He challenged the teacher unions, the #1 donors to Dems, so he's doomed.

Anything else to know?

“Did you hear about the time Cory Booker chased down an armed robber in front of city hall? How about when he ran into a burning building to save a woman’s life? Or when he shoveled snow from residents’ driveways after a blizzard? All true. He also rode with cops on night patrol, answered citizen complaints over Twitter and lived for eight years in a high-rise apartment where many low-income tenants rely on federal housing assistance. The story of Booker’s two terms running Newark reads like a tall tale or even a comic book: Cory Booker, Supermayor.”

“New grocery stores and hotels—the first in decades—have opened. Panasonic North America relocated its headquarters downtown, as did Audible.com, which provides audio information and entertainment. Prudential Financial is building a new tower. The city reported $1 billion in real estate development in 2011 and 2012—about a third of all development across the state in sheer square footage. Another $2 billion is in the pipeline for the next two years. Bolstered by a growing immigrant population, Newark finally bucked its 60-year depopulation trend in the 2010 Census. What Booker couldn’t do with city resources, he sought to accomplish through public-private partnerships, attracting millions in philanthropic investments to further his policy agenda.”

“Entire new municipal departments have sprouted up, reflecting a different set of policy ambitions—not only the hiring of a philanthropy liaison and the creation of a prisoner re-entry office, but also a new sustainability office and the establishment of a community planning department. The city is poised to pass an overhaul of its zoning code, the first update of its kind in more than 50 years. “He’s tried to modernize the machinery of government,” says Roland Anglin, a professor of metropolitan studies at Rutgers.”

“The most recent budget—adopted this summer—uses less in state aid and other one-time infusions of cash, such as property sales, while reducing homeowners’ property taxes by 13 percent.”

https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-what-cory-booker-accomplished.html

Hey, the guy may be the most amazing in the universe, but he's doomed -- the teacher unions hate him.

He won a contested Democratic primary in New Jersey handily, so perhaps that’s false or, if true, not the kryptonite you think it is?

Or, local politics on that issue are very different from national politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's a show pony. Not a work horse.

You know nothing about his time as a Mayor.

He challenged the teacher unions, the #1 donors to Dems, so he's doomed.

Anything else to know?

“Did you hear about the time Cory Booker chased down an armed robber in front of city hall? How about when he ran into a burning building to save a woman’s life? Or when he shoveled snow from residents’ driveways after a blizzard? All true. He also rode with cops on night patrol, answered citizen complaints over Twitter and lived for eight years in a high-rise apartment where many low-income tenants rely on federal housing assistance. The story of Booker’s two terms running Newark reads like a tall tale or even a comic book: Cory Booker, Supermayor.”

“New grocery stores and hotels—the first in decades—have opened. Panasonic North America relocated its headquarters downtown, as did Audible.com, which provides audio information and entertainment. Prudential Financial is building a new tower. The city reported $1 billion in real estate development in 2011 and 2012—about a third of all development across the state in sheer square footage. Another $2 billion is in the pipeline for the next two years. Bolstered by a growing immigrant population, Newark finally bucked its 60-year depopulation trend in the 2010 Census. What Booker couldn’t do with city resources, he sought to accomplish through public-private partnerships, attracting millions in philanthropic investments to further his policy agenda.”

“Entire new municipal departments have sprouted up, reflecting a different set of policy ambitions—not only the hiring of a philanthropy liaison and the creation of a prisoner re-entry office, but also a new sustainability office and the establishment of a community planning department. The city is poised to pass an overhaul of its zoning code, the first update of its kind in more than 50 years. “He’s tried to modernize the machinery of government,” says Roland Anglin, a professor of metropolitan studies at Rutgers.”

“The most recent budget—adopted this summer—uses less in state aid and other one-time infusions of cash, such as property sales, while reducing homeowners’ property taxes by 13 percent.”

https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-what-cory-booker-accomplished.html

Hey, the guy may be the most amazing in the universe, but he's doomed -- the teacher unions hate him.

He won a contested Democratic primary in New Jersey handily, so perhaps that’s false or, if true, not the kryptonite you think it is?

Or, local politics on that issue are very different from national politics.

His U.S. Senate primary was not about national politics?