[reg45]

Rats deserting the sinking ship.

[lacrew]

In the national media, I have heard nothing but glowing reviews of Booker.

Go figure.

[HChampagne]

It is the fault of the extremist republicans who would not let the former mayor do what was good for the citizens.

[rktman]

Evil Vlad Putin at work? He’ll give it back.

[Chode]

another RATropolis circling the drain...

[napscoordinator]

Booker booked it out of Newark and on to Washington DC…..He said, “See ya suckers.”. lol. The people of Newark get what they deserve.

[Paladin2]

Newark has been a ‘Rat hell-hole for at least a half a century.

[nascarnation]

One of Hillary’s best VP candidates I believe.

[Cowboy Bob]

One thing about Booker - he knows how to play the white liberals for the fools that they are.

[ronnie raygun]

Newark after Booker Is the say while Booker was in charge. So we are being told he saved the world and now it's gone to sh##. This rat darling is cool young handsome and of coarse black so he's a shoo in, don't ask if he's qualified that would be insulting, don't ask about his record or experience that would be insulting all you have to know is he is an activist for the people, a fighter for the poor and a nice guy who cares about the “middle class”

[Rodamala]

Maybe when Sharpe James gets out of jail he can come back and really turn things around for Newark.

[JerseyHighlander]

The entire city is now in fiscal distress. Every notable office building in the city has large amounts of office space available.
http://www.loopnet.com/New-Jersey/Newark_Office-Space-For-Lease/

[Focault's Pendulum]

Growing up in Jersey City I saw the steady decline of Newark starting with the riots in the 60's.

Booker was mesmerized by his cult of personality always having his eye on higher office.

He didn't even live there during much of his mayoral term.

[Count of Monte Fisto]

The fink Chris Christie could have appointed a Republican to that Senate seat but instead opted for a special election in which the Corporate Media crowned the phony Booker. Christie didn’t want anything to interfere with his own reelection.

[Bluestocking]

This explains why Hillary Clinton is so far ahead in the Democratic polls. Two of her potential 2016 challengers — Joe ‘’The Joker” Biden and Cory ‘’The Mayor Who Drove Newark Into Bankruptcy’’ Booker — are virtually unelectable; and electable candidates like Elizabeth Warren dare not exhibit any presidential ambitions without fear of reprisals from the Clintons.

So Hillary is not being tested at all. She will win the 2016 nomination by coronation rather than election, and then her Democratic subjects will discover they don’t like their new queen very much, for the same reason most Americans don’t like queens or any other unelected monarchs ruling over them — George III, for example.

Then the untested Queen Hillary will have to face a Republican challenger who will have been nominated through the Democratic process because of his or her relatively superior merits, energy, and vote-getting ability.

Is this what the Democrats want? Probably not, but what can they do about it? Start a Draft Wesley Clark movement? Get behind Bernie Sanders, whose Socialist ideology most Democrats share?

[Popman]

And officials haven't addressed how they plan to tackle a $34 million budget gap for 2014, a deficit that could grow.

...he brought to the perpetually cash-strapped city of about 277,000 residents only 10 miles from Manhattan.

$ 34 million / 277,00 residents = $122.77 per resident

Seems like a pretty easy fix...

Of course the 34 million deficit is a lie...