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Newarks’ new mayor and the Newark old guard: what’s in a name? — 13 Comments

  1. During my life as an airline pilot, everyone I ever came in contact with referred to Newark as Manurerk. We all uniformly tried to avoid schedules that laid over there. And I have laid over in Baltimore and DC where we had armed guards with machine guns and German Shepards on duty in the lobby of the hotel. Much preferred that to Manurerk.

    The proximity to New York and all the money that sloshes over the river is all that has kept Newark alive. Otherwise they would be like Detroit.

  2. When there’s no one else left, they do turn on each other. Hungry dogs gotta eat. Not all race hustlers can get academic tenure, though one might venture to guess Ras is not as poetic as Amiri.

  3. From flyover country, far from the decaying metro areas east and west, its imposible to get interested in what is obviously a SNAFU situation anywhere in NJ. From flyover country everything else is a stain upon the land that we no longer recognize as America. Please leave us alone to go our way and you go your way.

  4. Neo: “The most recent mayor, Cory A. Booker, used his position as a springing-off spot for his current office of US Senator, but Baraka won by running as a Newark insider against the Booker administration, of which Jeffries was seen as a continuation.”

    In light of parker’s comment, I think this is the important story because Senator Booker is being groomed for a national profile by the Dems establishment, one that might affect flyover country as well as the coasts.

    Booker burnished his political reputation as the Mayor of Newark, yet the Baraka v Jefferies election indicates that Booker didn’t do much for Newark as its mayor, as judged by Newark’s residents. They apparently view Booker as a carpetbagger who used Newark as a stepping stone without helping Newark on his way.

    Since Booker seems to have been placed on an Obama-esque fast-track based on the strength of his mayorship, it behooves political observers to cut through the narrative and make an accurate account of Booker’s actual record as mayor.

  5. Matt_SE: “Has anything good ever come out of New Jersey?”

    Well, Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark before setting up shop in Menlo Park.

    Newark was a great American city once upon a time.

  6. Today the people of Newark swear in their new mayor. Their choice with whom they must live. I do not believe that they could really know (remember) Baraka’s father, his hatred, Marxist beliefs and connections with racial violence. I believe his views are shared by his son and followers. Perhaps it would be poetic justice if his voter/supporters alone shared his “New Newark” agenda, but all of Essex County and the State of New Jersey will be hurt. Let’s see what happens next and what Senator Booker will do to help. Don’t hold your breath!

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