an escalation from the RAT that cut all the tires before the election a few years back
Posted on 04/02/2014 3:06:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The race to permanently replace Cory Booker as mayor of Newark has gotten a little crazy: Right now, former Newark city council head Luis Quintana is finishing out the term that Booker left when he became New Jersey's junior Senator, but he isn't trying to hold onto the seat after the scheduled election on May 13. Two Democrats — activist Ras Baraka and attorney Shavar Jeffries — are running against each other for the office. In mid-February, a surveillance camera caught a man setting fire to an empty Baraka campaign bus and, for good measure, pouring sugar in the gas tank.
Investigators also saw that a white Chevy van was "involved" in the incident and, on March 7, the cops pulled over 35-year-old Shareef Nash as he drove the vehicle. While Nash hasn't (yet) been charged with anything, he did turn out to be a Jeffries campaign employee. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office put out a warrant for the arrest of the person who does appear to have set fire to Baraka's bus: 43-year-old Michael Benkowski, whom they charged with third-degree arson, third-degree criminal mischief, and third-degree burglary.
Benkowski remains at large, but the New Jersey Star-Ledger reported on Wednesday that he also has ties to Jeffries: According to campaign filings, Benkowski worked as a canvasser for the campaign and was last paid in December, though a spokesman said that he has since left the job. "Anyone involved in this arson must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Let me be crystal clear: I do not condone any activities that violate the spirit or letter of the law and neither does my campaign," Jeffries said yesterday. Though Baraka has said that there is "no evidence" that his opponent knew what his employees were up to, he has publicly demanded that Jeffries "admonish them, call for justice, and call for their arrest."
The bus fire is just the latest in a series of allegations of misconduct, corruption, and voter intimidation exchanged by Baraka and Jeffries. With only six weeks to go until voting day, both candidates have called for federal monitors to oversee the election. It sounds like they need them.
Very third world.
It’s “Flaming Bus Gate”!
The MSM is sure to run this wall-to wall for weeks!
Well, at least he was keepin' it real.
he was just doing his part to cut carbon emissions from big oil.
it was for the children.
[singing] he slipped out and like a wanted man, he set fire to that Chevy Van and that’s a fel lon nee...
Thanks nickcarraway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiEIToOWr64
Oh yeah, it’ll be much bigger than “Christiegate”. /sarc
Exactly! When I read the headline I say to the wife, “What is this, Zimbabwe? “
If you have ever been to Newark, it makes Zimbabwe look civilized.
an escalation from the RAT that cut all the tires before the election a few years back
Very Gwenn Moore.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that they actually identified the perp as a Democrat. This is Jersey. They could have claimed that he was a former Democrat just turned Republican and gotten away with it.
HERE’S THE SONG:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1271915/posts
It was Supreme Solar Allah, son of Gwen Moore
LOL!!! yup, that's the chickenhead i was thinking of alright...
IT’S NEWARK!!!
What’s a little arson in Newark?
New Jersey, The Nation’s Toilet. They ought to sever the part of New Jersey that lies along the Hudson River, from the rest of the state and call it New Kenya. Newark could then be re-named Mombassa. Obama would be so proud, but it might be difficult to get the Mafia to cede the territory.
“They ought to sever the part of New Jersey that lies along the Hudson River, from the rest of the state and call it New Kenya. Newark could then be re-named Mombassa.”
The part along the Hudson River is probably the wealthiest, from Jersey City (the “Gold Coast”, which benefited from the flight of a lot of people and jobs from NYC over the past few decades) up to Alpine. It is places a little further inland (Newark, Irvington, East Orange) that are the toilet; they don’t have the access to NYC that other up-and-coming areas have (Rutherford, Secaucus, Lyndhurst), and they have a lot of baggage in the form of countless gibsmedats any company or taxpayer is expected to feed, clothe, house, and school. Efforts to re-introduce “Euro-Americans” in these areas have failed miserably, as physical safety can’t be attained and the bankrupt infrastructure is collapsing.
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