The Wall Street Journal reports today that Newark Mayor Corey Booker, widely perceived as a potential 2013 Democratic nominee for New Jersey governor against incumbent Chris Christie, may forego that race and instead run for the New Jersey Senate seat in 2014. But his ambitions stretch beyond that. According to Politicker, Booker’s fundraising right hand… Read more »
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Corey Booker Fibbing on Food Stamp $4 Per Day Publicity Stunt
Newark Mayor Corey Booker, prepping for his all-but-certain 2013 New Jersey gubernatorial candidacy, has decided on a publicity stunt to raise national name recognition: he’s going to try to live for a week on $ 4 per day in food. Why? Because, supposedly, that’s the amount of money food stamp recipients have to live on…. Read more »
Corey Booker Learns Crossing Obama Dangerous Business
Don’t cross the Obama administration unless you want to be rubbed out politically. It doesn’t even matter if you’re a rising star in the Democratic Party; Obama demands obeisance to him first. Newark Mayor Cory Booker is the latest victim of risking his career by telling the truth. Booker recently went public with his criticism of… Read more »
NBC Dumps and Punishes Newark Mayor Corey Booker
Newark, New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker is apparently now washed up. He went from being one of the most prominent up-and-coming black Democrats to being on the outside looking in merely because he said something that diverges from Obama’s war on capitalism. Now even NBC is kicking him out of its Meet The Press studios…. Read more »