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Chalk One Up For The Good Guys

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Elections, General Politics

This slipped past me last week, but Cory Booker won the Newark mayorial race in an out and out landslide.

So why is Booker such a big deal? Well, anybody who’s seen the Academy Award-nominated documentary Street Fight already knows how Booker’s challenger in the 2002 mayorial contest, Democratic mayor Sharpe James, played extremely dirty politics against him.

And yes, you should try and rent the documentary. It’s a revealing and jaw-dropping look at how a culture of corruption can defeat a clearly superior candidate. Thankfully, this time around, Sharpe stepped aside and Booker stomped all over Sharpe’s heir apparent.

Yes, chalk one up for the good guys. We don’t just need more Democrats like Cory Booker. We need more politicians like him.

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5 Responses to “Chalk One Up For The Good Guys”

GN Says:
May 16th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Outstanding … saw the doc and was rooting. It slipped by me also.
He should be an invited speaker at a CC event. Just a thought.
amba Says:
May 16th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Great, GN, let’s hold that thought.

Thanks Justin. This is wonderful news.
Justin Gardner Says:
May 16th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
Yes! Let’s try to get him at the next CC event. He might not be too keen to reinforce the “Republican-lite” image that his opponents that have tried to paint him with, but perhaps he’ll see through the rhetoric?
Meredith Says:
May 17th, 2006 at 10:55 am
Cory Booker is an amazing man. He represents the “almost too good to be true,” politician that really is true, the kind of politician that you almost never see anymore. He is the type of man that gives me hope for this country.
Sean Aqui Says:
May 17th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Also saw the doc, and was rooting for Booker. I used to live in Jersey City, so I got to see politics in Newark (and Hudson County, where I lived) up close. New Jersey still has vestiges of machine politics (Democratic, in this case), and Sharpe James had long outlived his worthiness. They both need to go.

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