The perfect embodiment of Booker’s time as mayor of Newark is the Pampers story. The mayor got wind of a damsel in distress, a mother of five named Barbara Byers, who amid a heavy snow was running out of diapers. Byers’ brother tweeted news of the crisis to Booker, who famously responded “I’m on it” and showed up at her door to replenish her supply.
But as Byers told Politico she never needed his photo-op heroics. “The only reason he brought me Pampers was that it had been three days and our street hadn’t been plowed,” she said. “I have five kids and, trust me, I don’t just run out of Pampers. All we wanted was for him to plow our streets. It’s about knowing how to manage a city.”
The Histrionics of a Fraud
January 12, 2017 by Scott McKay
Cory Booker kicks off his 2020 presidential run by disqualifying himself at the Sessions confirmation hearing.
Let’s dispense with the obvious — while it’s far too
early for political prognostication surrounding the 2020 presidential
campaign, it doesn’t take too much effort to see that the Democrats have
very little in the way of worthy candidates for nomination.
For this, they can thank Barack Obama and his eight years of
hollowing out that party by relying on vicious identity politics and
Hard Left cultural aggression to pile up near-unanimous votes in urban
areas dominated by racial and ethnic minorities and “lifestyle liberals”
at the expense of “normal” Americans in suburbs and small towns.
Consequently, state legislatures are becoming more and more uniformly
Republican and governor’s mansions are already there. The only path to
national relevance for Democrat politicians is becoming the mayor’s
office in larger cities Dems dominate.Which is where Cory Booker, who appears to be the preener-in-chief among the rag-tag roster of 2020 Democrat presidential hopefuls, came from.
What Booker proves is it’s not important whether a Democrat is actually successful as a mayor on his or her ascent up the political totem pole — Booker, as mayor of Newark, couldn’t be considered a success by any rational measure. ...
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