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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He's a show pony.  Not a work horse.[/quote]

You know nothing about his time as a Mayor.[/quote]

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

Anything else to know?[/quote]

““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.[/quote]

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