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Cory Booker, who unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Newark a few years ago in a bitter race against longtime mayor Sharpe James, was elected by a huge margin to lead the 64th biggest city in the country. His opponent, NJ State Senator Ronald Rice, (who was outspent and outmatched) conceded around 10PM; the Star-Ledger notes he didn't mention Booker by name. Booker will be only the third new Mayor of Newark in 36 years, and people are hoping for a big change. Booker, with degrees from Stanford, Oxford and Yale, has said he'll be more a "manager" of government (he has stated he models himself after Mayor Bloomberg) than a politician.
Here's the City of Newark website. The Booker-James mayoral race was captured in the documentary Street Fight. There's an interesting article on the Street Fight site about Booker as a "great black hope," comparing him to Barack Obama.
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I thought this was a NYC website.
Booker also slept with undergrads while he was a trustee at Stanford. Class of 2001 was his fave. Got a chick a job at the East Village Community School after she would give him "massages" over long weekends in a hotel in Menlo Park. Hopefully he doesn't have any young interns around him to distract him from actually getting something done.
Bob A Booey:
New Jersey politics is a great spectator sport. It is great to watch, provided you are across the river from it.
Newarkified - have you ever slept with anyone? If so, please, let us know!
I didn't sleep with him, but I got the chick's single (and away from a crazy roomate) when he would take her away for the weekend. I personally loved him for giving me a few weekends of sanity. However, it might have also been seen as slightly unethical as he was on the baord of trustees and she was a freshman/sophomore at the time.
He seems like he dates white women. The younger and blonder the better.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I wonder if he'll be able to get to higher office if he were to marry one. Then again look at Clarence Thomas.
I hope he gets a Swede like Tiger.
The other guy was too fuddy duddy.
Let's just admitt it "street" is not it these days.