Newark Mayor and next NJ Senator lives in New York

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http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/14/neighbors-cory-booker-never-lived-in-newark/

[Koko78]

"Every country has the government it deserves."

 

-Joseph de Maistre

[drinkTHEkoolaid]

I have the obvious solution where everybody wins.

 

Give downstate, NYC and long island to new jersey!

[DC Tom]

I have the obvious solution where everybody wins.

 

Give downstate, NYC and long island to new jersey!

 

No, split up New Jersey and New York. Northern NJ, NYC, and downstate NY can become "New New York". The rest of NY can become "Upstate NY." And Pennsylvania can have south Jersey.

 

And give Long Island (outside of the NYC boroughs) to Connecticut.

[drinkTHEkoolaid]

 

 

No, split up New Jersey and New York. Northern NJ, NYC, and downstate NY can become "New New York". The rest of NY can become "Upstate NY." And Pennsylvania can have south Jersey.

 

And give Long Island (outside of the NYC boroughs) to Connecticut.

 

I'm fine with that. Deal

[3rdnlng]

No, split up New Jersey and New York. Northern NJ, NYC, and downstate NY can become "New New York". The rest of NY can become "Upstate NY." And Pennsylvania can have south Jersey.

 

And give Long Island (outside of the NYC boroughs) to Connecticut.

 

Who are you, Karle Rove? With this strategy you have taken 3 blue states and turned them into 1 blue state and possibly 2 red states.

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No, split up New Jersey and New York. Northern NJ, NYC, and downstate NY can become "New New York". The rest of NY can become "Upstate NY." And Pennsylvania can have south Jersey.

 

And give Long Island (outside of the NYC boroughs) to Connecticut.

 

If we do that, we're going to have to split Pennsylvania into east and west. Philtadelphia and West Jersey are bad enough, but to add South Jersey to the mix isn't something my fellow Western Pennsylvanians would be to happy with

[UConn James]

And give Long Island (outside of the NYC boroughs) to Connecticut.

 

As long as we can rename the Islanders to the Whalers, I'm in.

[Koko78]

As long as we can rename the Islanders to the Whalers, I'm in.

 

So you can insult the fine people who hunted whales as a profession by using a derogatory slur to promote the franchise? Or mock the plight of endangered species by glorifying the heartless brutes who slaughtered the poor innocent whales by the thousands?

 

You heartless callous bastard.

[/dev/null]

As long as we can rename the Islanders to the Whalers, I'm in.

So you can insult the fine people who hunted whales as a profession by using a derogatory slur to promote the franchise? Or mock the plight of endangered species by glorifying the heartless brutes who slaughtered the poor innocent whales by the thousands?

 

You heartless callous bastard.

 

And lets move them to Fishkill, NY

[Wacka]

Albany had a mayor, Erasmus Corning, that served from 1941 until he died in 1983. That included his his service in the army in WWII. He openly lived in the suburbs and not in the city.

[KD in CA]

 

As long as we can rename the Islanders to the Whalers, I'm in.

 

They're moving to Brooklyn, plus who wants Nassau anyway? Let's just take Suffolk and build a bridge over the Sound.

[B-Man]

Dem ‘Referendum’ on Tea Party Fizzles: Booker Margin in N.J. Barely Half of Obama’s in 2012

 

Democrats did everything they could to portray yesterday’s special election for a Senate seat in New Jersey as a referendum on Republicans and the Tea Party. They clearly fell short of their expectations as Democrat Cory Booker underperformed his showing in almost all the polls, and wound up winning by only 10.3 points. By contrast, President Obama won New Jersey by 18 points just last November. At the same time, Democratic senator Robert Menendez cruised to a 19-point victory over a veteran moderate Republican state senator.

 

In a video released on Monday, President Obama had urged people to vote for Democrat Cory Booker “to send a message to the entire country about what kind of leadership we expect from our representatives in Congress, that we’re better than the shutdown politics we’ve seen in Washington.” Booker himself endlessly referred to Republican Steve Lonegan’s time as head of the state’s chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a tea-party-aligned group.

 

But Booker’s strategy didn’t seem to work and may even have energized Lonegan’s base. Booker had a 35-point lead only six weeks ago. A Rutgers-Eagleton poll released just last Monday still showed him with at 58 percent to 36 percent lead. Quinnipiac’s poll released on Tuesday had Booker with a 14-point lead. Only the Monmouth University poll that came out on Monday properly pegged Booker with a ten-point lead.

[GG]

They're moving to Brooklyn, plus who wants Nassau anyway? Let's just take Suffolk and build a bridge over the Sound.

 

Who willingly wants Suffolk?

[DC Tom]

Who willingly wants Suffolk?

 

People in Connecticut.

 

I figured outside of the boroughs, Long Island was culturally most attuned to Connecticut. In that they're both pretty much the same cultural wasteland.

[John Adams]

If we do that, we're going to have to split Pennsylvania into east and west. Philtadelphia and West Jersey are bad enough, but to add South Jersey to the mix isn't something my fellow Western Pennsylvanians would be to happy with

 

Fine with us in Philly. Enjoy being Northern West Virginia.

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Fine with us in Philly. Enjoy being Northern West Virginia.

 

Finally something Eastern and Western Pennsylvanians can agree on. Let's sit back and drink some pop while we watch Penn St beat Temple for the hundred and somethingth time.

Edited October 17, 2013 by /dev/null

[IDBillzFan]

NYT obliterates Booker.

 

 

But a recent state audit underlines that the former mayor might have paid more attention to the prosaic business of running his city. Instead of shoveling driveways — he loved on snowy days to run about Newark with his shovel — he could have attended a meeting, just one, of his Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation.

 

It turns out this corporation, which the mayor championed and empowered, was pilfering from Newark.

 

The executive director, Linda Watkins-Brashear, who was a close ally of the mayor, acted like a bear come upon a honey pot. The state comptroller foundher total compensation over seven years came to $1.98 million. Yet her salary during those years came to $1.16 million.

 

It seems she cut herself checks from the agency’s accounts. She also handed millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to friends and a former husband. She has denied wrongdoing.

 

Then there was the general counsel, Elnardo Webster, who is a close friend and former law partner of Mr. Booker. He made as much as $400,000 without a contract that anyone could find.

 

Mr. Booker is a splendid retailer of his narrative, but after a while there is a Barnum & Bailey quality to it. His maiden speech in the Senate went on for more than 30 minutes and ranged from the founding fathers to slavery to his own story to, oh yes, unemployment benefits, which was his ostensible point.

 

He talks, tweets and travels relentlessly. But what’s left behind is troubling. His former deputy mayor was convicted of extortion in 2011. The year before that, Mr. Booker laid off police officers. Arrests plummeted and, like a dying fire given oxygen, homicides flared.

 

Homicides in Newark jumped to 111 last year.

[B-Man]

NYT obliterates Booker.

 

 

 

 

So ?

 

those things are résumé enhancers for a democrat politician.

 

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