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A vote for Booker is a vote for Christie | Bob Braun's Ledger

A vote for Booker is a vote for Christie | Bob Braun's Ledger:



A vote for Booker is a vote for Christie

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                New Jersey’s top Democrats are cowards. New Jersey’s top  Republicans are cowards. That is why Cory Booker, who did nothing for Newark but divide it, preside over unprecedented bloodshed in its streets, and form a diabolical alliance with Chris Christie to suppress its people, will walk to his re-election in November. I mourn for democracy in New Jersey.
                Booker does not deserve to be a United States senator and I am ashamed of those progressive Democrats who might have posed a challenge to his re-election in Tuesday’s primary but chickened out. They ran scared.
                Just as the Republican ran scared. Gov. Chris Christie made Booker a senator last year by manipulating the election dates—and wasting $24 million in the process. Booker and Christie conspired to bring privatization to the Newark schools—a stealth conspiracy that benefited, certainly not the children of the city, but the billionaires who support the clown in the Statehouse and the fraud in the Senate seat.
                The main-stream press, which simply anoints Booker as a “popular” Democrat without a moment’s analysis of how and why he became senator—or even mayor—already has decided how the race will go. So much so for a press that takes the people’s side against oppression—no, they would rather simply declare Booker “popular” and leave it at that.
                Oh, really? And how many votes did Booker get out of Newark in the senate race last year? And what did Ras Baraka’s election say about the popularity of this unknown from nowhere who was declared a “rock-star” by Oprah Winfrey who, of course, has nothing but the interests of Newark residents at heart.
A strong Republican could have wiped out Booker, a weak candidate who might A vote for Booker is a vote for Christie | Bob Braun's Ledger: