Cory Booker – The Man With The Shovel
By Grace Cangemi
Newark must be booming. After all, Mayor Cory Booker has enough time on his hands to get involved down here in Monmouth County. Why else would the Mayor of the largest city in the state get involved in legislative races outside his district?
Newark is once again mire in scandal. As Booker’s former Deputy Mayor faces corruption charges for allegedly fixing government contracts in return for political contributions, democrat legislative candidates in Monmouth County are bringing Booker to town. Let’s hope it’s to raise money and not to offer suggestions on responsible leadership and fiscal policy.
Today, in the midst of a financial environment that has everyone else in the state tightening their belts, Booker scored an additional $32 million in emergency aid to Newark. Add that to the more than $91 million Newark has already received. Monmouth County’s aid was less than $79 million total this year. In other words, Newark will receive about $44 million more than all of Monmouth County combined. Instead of throwing fundraisers for Monmouth County legislative candidates, Booker should be sending thank you notes to every taxpayer in the state.
In the past, Booker has been pounded for spending alarming amounts of money on both federal and state lobbyists. Newark is still in fiscal turmoil. An ethics scandal that alleges that political contributions and cronyism influenced contracts in the city won’t go away. Newark alone gets more money than every municipality in Monmouth County combined. I guess that makes Cory Booker a hell of a fundraiser. But there have to be better leaders that Monmouth County dems can look to. There must be men and women in the democrat party who offer a better example than Booker.
Oh yeah, he shoveled snow after the blizzard. Booker hasn’t been able to dig Newark out of corruption and debt, but he sure can shovel. Maybe that’s why Monmouth County dems are bringing him down – to help with the shoveling.
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Bwahhhaaa….Good one Grace! Too funny of a post. He’s a really popular guy that’s already done a lot for his city…but you fail to mention that, don’t you. Here’s a little excerpt from Time Magazine….Oh, yeah…and at least he stayed here during the storm…unlike some of YOUR people.
“Mayor Cory Booker isn’t afraid to do some heavy lifting. When a snowstorm blanketed Newark, N.J., during the 2010 holiday season, he took matters into his own hands, shoveling streets with his staff and turning his popular Twitter feed into a help hotline. His efforts made the already popular mayor a social-media superhero. He has more than 1 million followers on Twitter, though Newark has just 280,000 residents. The attention was nothing new for Booker. Since his election in 2006 (when he won 72% of the vote), he has worked to create summer jobs for teens.”
“His efforts to revamp the city’s police department — often cited as his biggest achievement — have lowered crime in Newark by more than 20%. Booker’s next target? Newark’s long-troubled school system. And for that seemingly intractable problem, he is getting some big-time help. After meeting Booker at a conference last July, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he thought, “This is the guy I want to invest in. This is a real person who can create this change.” A few months later, Zuckerberg handed over $100 million to help the city’s schools — with the caveat that Booker head the initiative.”
Oh..and here’s another little note from earlier this year Grace….which is probably one of the reasons that he’s here to help….This is from Politicker NJ
“Newark Mayor Cory Booker is the most popular politician in the state, according to a March poll commissioned by the Senate and Assembly Democrats, leading the next name in a field of big name politicians by seven points, according to a source with knowledge of the poll.”
“Commissioned in part, in the words of one insider, to gauge the potential for Booker to lift a sagging party on his coattails with a statewide campaign, the poll showed the Newark mayor with high name recognition and a 4-1 favorable rating.”
“Booker had rock star numbers,” said a Democratic Party insider with knowledge of the poll. “If Booker wants the nomination it’s his.”
Oh…now I get the reason you’re trying to smear him….you’re scared he’ll run against your boy in Drumthwacket. Heh-heh…and he’d probably win too now that the Governor’s numbers are in decline and are going in reverse…especially with independents. On to 2013!!
Heh-heh…and he’d probably win too now that the Governor’s numbers are in decline and are going in reverse…especially with independents. On to 2013!!
Rick,
Did I miss a new poll? The last one I read had Christie’s numbers at 54% positive and climbing. That was before the hurricane, which will probably boost his numbers.
Not for the monmouth dems, he’s helping out his friend who is running for the assembly. Grace check with jen beck, she called him personally begging him not to come…didn’t work apparently. Your such a politician grace, no wonder red bank overwhelmingly rejected you.
That is so stupid, that’s like saying new jersey is booming so christie shouldn’t go to iowa. I wonder if u said the same thing when christie speaks at monmouth reps, probably not because you are a hypocritical politician. Nj residents say nj has a lot of porblems, does that mean he should stay in drumtwacket. Very dumb and immature grace, I can see why u keep losing elections now with your idiotic analogies.
Fred – a word of advice. You should not be calling anyone “immature” with the caliber of writing in your post, unless you are in reality, a fifth-grader who got into daddy’s pull down screen by accident. As for Cory Booker – the guy is a disaster. Silly stunts like shoveling snow and telling workers to bring in their own toilet paper is what is posing as leadership in a city rife with corruption, murder, carjackings, blighted neighborhoods and failing schools. Democrats are so quick to embrace and prop up any minority politician who doesn’t sound like Flav O Flav that performance and results don’t matter – just image.
Rick must be hitting the bottle.