NJ Democrats now reap what they have sowed. They just did not understand the seeds were body snatcher pods. The corrupt Democrat machine thought their Democrat 'negro politicians' would stay in their place inside their corrupt urban city halls. m/rThe American Spectator : A Departure for New Jersey Politics
Cory Booker’s Republican opponent is well positioned to expose
him further.
In old school New Jersey Democratic politics, the general rule of thumb was you don’t cut the line, you play by the (union) rules and eventually, maybe, you will be rewarded with higher office. Unfortunately for Democratic contenders Rep. Frank Pallone and Rep. Rush Holt, the rules of the game have changed.
The ubiquitous Cory Booker clobbered both candidates in the Democratic special election primary for Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s open Senate seat. To get a sense of how lopsided this race was, see the preliminary results in Essex county. Unofficially, in Essex, Booker received 66% of the vote. State House Speaker Sheila Oliver got 10%. U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone got 18%, and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt got 6%.
Booker, who counts Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah and President Bill Clinton as friends, is a constant media presence and utilizes Twitter to an extent unheard of for a pol. He clearly learned from President Obama’s 2008 campaign that it is possible to seize a moment and generate a truly unlikely outcome. No longer do politicians need to bide their time, but by becoming a media darling these new generation politicos can up-jump their predecessors and reach new heights sooner. This media candidate was able to handily defeat the more experienced and richer Pallone as well as the more academic and experienced Holt. Those two must be pining for the days when washed up pols decided these things in back rooms, not on Facebook.
Booker’s rhetoric does not match his results. His much ballyhooed tech startup, Waywire, made him rich but beyond that seems to be a complete dud. His economic record in Newark is also quite mixed.
“When Booker took office, 20 years of Sharpe James and his cronies running the city had unemployment at an unacceptably elevated 8.5 percent; after seven years of Cory Booker, it now stands at 14.4 percent. The number of unemployed Newarkers jumped over that period from 8,892 to 15,744 – a shocking 77% increase.”Crime has also risen under his watch. In 2010 he laid off 167 police officers and violent crime has seen a 24% increase between 2009 and 2012. Even some Democrats have begun to tire of Booker’s persona as many have un-endorsed him in the lead-up to the special election this past Tuesday. ...
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