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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

“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[/quote]

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

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? [/quote]

Or, local politics on that issue are very different from national politics.[/quote]

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