More Booker facts:
“The adult literacy rate in Newark is 52% making it the city with the fifth highest illiteracy rate in America.”
“How does the mayor of a city with the 5th highest illiteracy rate and the 3rd neediest residents actually aspire to higher office with that miserable track record of failure and human wreckage?”
“Mayor Booker based his claim of having turned Newark around on all the outside money he brought in. Where all that money went is an intriguing question that will gain urgency if he becomes the nominee.”
“In a typical viral stunt, Booker had appeared with Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and Governor Chris Christie on Oprah where the dot com billionaire announced that he was donating $100 million to Newark’s public schools. That gift was supposed to be matched by another $200 million in donations.”
“Where did all that money go?”
“Millions were spent on $1,000 a day consultants. Union fat cats got fatter. The Foundation for Newark’s Future squandered the money. And Booker was one of the five trustees of the Foundation.”
“In the summer of 2016, Booker positioned himself for a presidential run with a rousing DNC speech. But a few months earlier, the water in half of Newark public schools was found to be contaminated with dangerous levels of lead.”
“Newark already had more children suffering from dangerous levels than Flint. But, unlike Flint, the media refused to hold Booker, his predecessor or his radical successor, accountable for the horror.”
Well, the three mayors that preceded him were all sent to prison. Maybe the chain won’t be broken after all.