Comments on: Newarks’ new mayor and the Newark old guard: what’s in a name? https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/14/newarks-new-mayor-and-the-newark-old-guard/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 09 Sep 2020 07:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Dennis https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/14/newarks-new-mayor-and-the-newark-old-guard/#comment-797894 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:01:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38855#comment-797894 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!

]]> By: Molly NH https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/14/newarks-new-mayor-and-the-newark-old-guard/#comment-775538 Thu, 15 May 2014 20:03:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38855#comment-775538 Yeah, Ymar the guy with the whale oil franchise ! LOL

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/14/newarks-new-mayor-and-the-newark-old-guard/#comment-775391 Thu, 15 May 2014 14:34:57 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38855#comment-775391 Wasn’t Edison run out of town by somebody or other.

]]> By: thirdtwin https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/14/newarks-new-mayor-and-the-newark-old-guard/#comment-775337 Thu, 15 May 2014 12:23:02 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38855#comment-775337 Son of the geeza who skeeza’ed Condoleezza.

]]> By: Eric https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/14/newarks-new-mayor-and-the-newark-old-guard/#comment-775313 Thu, 15 May 2014 11:39:27 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38855#comment-775313 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.

]]> By: Matt_SE https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/14/newarks-new-mayor-and-the-newark-old-guard/#comment-775272 Thu, 15 May 2014 10:09:27 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38855#comment-775272 Has anything good ever come out of New Jersey?

]]> By: Eric https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/14/newarks-new-mayor-and-the-newark-old-guard/#comment-775154 Thu, 15 May 2014 05:21:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38855#comment-775154 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.

]]> By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/14/newarks-new-mayor-and-the-newark-old-guard/#comment-775140 Thu, 15 May 2014 04:45:29 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38855#comment-775140 The only intractable problem is the LEft. Everything else are symptoms.

]]> By: blert https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/14/newarks-new-mayor-and-the-newark-old-guard/#comment-775049 Thu, 15 May 2014 00:54:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38855#comment-775049 Baraka never owned a waste paper basket, hence, the ode.

]]> By: parker https://thenewneo.com/2014/05/14/newarks-new-mayor-and-the-newark-old-guard/#comment-775043 Thu, 15 May 2014 00:32:50 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38855#comment-775043 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.

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