The Obama Style - Press Covers Up Crime, Corruption and Incompetence - Empty Promise

It is too important to have an honest, competent Senator, instead of an incompetent, feel good vote, just because the candidate is an attractive black mask. Most white voters are rather stupid, easily intimidated and emotional. They abandon reason for fear of being erroneously called racist and a need to feel magnanimous for voting for the misunderstood black guy. Newark has a bad reputation for a reason. They never learn! m/r

Empty Promise | National Review Online

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013    By Eliana Johnson

Cory Booker’s hypocrisy on vacant property. 

Until March, Cory Booker owned an abandoned home on Newark’s Court Street. When I visited it last week, there was a “No Loitering” sign above the door and barbed wire looped over the fence. Through a hole, an overgrown backyard littered with glass bottles and other trash was visible from the sidewalk. Advertisements for a restoration and cleaning service were posted in the boarded-up windows.

During his tenure as mayor of Newark, Booker has spoken out against the neglected properties that litter the city, and in August 2011, he signed into law an ordinance requiring landowners to register vacant properties with the city’s Office of Rent Control. The mayor himself, however, failed to register the Court Street house, according to Maria Hernandez in Newark’s rent-control office. The ordinance required those who owned vacant property at the time of the law’s passage to register it by August 31, 2011, with the penalty for noncompliance being a fine between $500 and $1,000. “Every day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offense,” the ordinance reads.

Public records show that after purchasing the home for $175,000 in December 2009, Booker sold it in March of this year to Newark Now, the charity he founded in 2003, for $1. The mayor “looks forward to seeing it utilized by community partners working to make Newark a better place,” Booker spokesman James Allen tells National Review Online. Asked about the mayor’s failure to comply with his own ordinance, Allen provided no comment. Newark Now president and CEO Lavar Young, who did not return National Review Online’s request for comment, told the Newark Star-Ledger that the charity is currently in negotiations to sell the house.

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Booker is in the midst of a campaign for the U.S. Senate and holds a commanding lead over his Republican challenger, Steve Lonegan. ...

Lonegan, a former mayor of Bogota, N.J., held a press conference outside of the abandoned home on Tuesday but was drowned out by shouting, reportedly frommen associated with a charity founded by Booker... [Sounds more like Al Sharpton instead of Cory Booker.]

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