The recent death of New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg has complicated Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s march to the U.S. Senate, speeding up the election calendar and giving him only two months to raise money and increase name recognition before an August 13 primary. Most observers in the Garden State don’t expect Booker to have much [...]
Angry Booker Slams Newark Residents For Not Reporting Attack on Teen
February 14, 2013 | Posted by
Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s anger was evident yesterday as he assailed the people of his city for not coming forward to report the perpetrators in a brutal video that went viral showing three men savagely whipping another man with a belt after forcing him to strip naked. The video, filmed in August, was viewed more [...]
Cory Booker Files Campaign Committee Papers For NJ Senate Run
January 11, 2013 | Posted by
Newark Mayor Cory Booker has almost made it official that he is going to run in 2014 for the New Jersey U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Sen. Frank Lautenberg. While Booker has not made his formal announcement yet, earlier this week he filed papers with the Federal Election Commission, creating a “Cory Booker for [...]
Cory Booker, Leaning Toward NJ Senate Run, Calls for Gun Controls
December 18, 2012 | Posted by
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who is reportedly leaning toward a run for the U.S. Senate, last night joined New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other big city mayors who are pleading for the nation’s leader to take action against guns. In an appearance on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, Booker took a forceful stand in favor [...]
Cory Booker Responds To Critics of His Food Stamp Challenge
December 8, 2012 | Posted by
As Newark Mayor Cory Booker has fought off critics of his food stamp challenge, one thing is clear: He is achieving his goal of bringing more attention to the plight of Americans forced to survive on food stamps. Booker is in day 5 of his bid to live for a week on the equivalent of [...]
Cory Booker To Live On Food Stamps For A Week
December 1, 2012 | Posted by
Cory Booker is literally putting his money where his mouth is. The Newark Mayor and rising Democratic Party star told the Associated Press on Thursday that he plans to honor the challenge he made to a Twitter follower earlier this month to try living on the monetary equivalent of food stamps for at least a [...]
Nor’easter Adds More Woes To Sandy-Battered NJ, NY Area
November 8, 2012 | Posted by
A nor’easter covered the battered New York and New Jersey area Wednesday, dumping rain, wet snow and more misery on an area still trying to recover from Superstorm Sandy a week ago. Thousands of area residents who were still trying to dig their homes and cars out from last week’s devastating flooding were again relegated [...]
Corey Booker Overcomes Earlier Miscue And Takes Likely Aim At Christie
September 10, 2012 | Posted by
His uncharacteristic bump-in-the-road is now firmly behind him, leaving Newark mayor Cory Booker to resume his role as the rising star within the Democratic Party who will look to unseat New Jersey Governor Chris Christie next year. Booker most recently served as the co-chairman of the Democratic Party’s platform committee during last week’s convention in [...]
Newark Mayor Cory Booker Helps Accident Victim
June 23, 2012 | Posted by
Cory Bookey, Newark, NJ’s superhero mayor, was at it again, this time helping to stabilize a pedestrian who had been the victim of a car accident. Booker told the world about the incident via Twitter, but he said he was one of several people who helped the pedestrian. A Newark spokeswoman told the Associated Press [...]
Newark Mayor Cory Booker Gets Scolded by Obama Campaign
June 2, 2012 | Posted by
Newark Mayor Cory Booker traveled across the entire country to deliver a speech to Democrats in Seattle, where he jokingly told them he had been advised by the Obama campaign to avoid sticking his foot in his mouth again. Booker was referring to the media storm he created when he went on Meet the Press [...]
