Posted on 08/25/2019 10:56:42 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Dont drink the water in Newark.
The only thing worse than the crime and corruption in the New Jersey city that gave the nation Cory Booker is its drinking water. First, they found lead in the water in schools and then in peoples homes.
In some homes the lead content in the water is four times higher than the federal limit.
And Cory Booker, the Senator from New Jersey, running to run the country, is blaming racism.
"Newark's water emergency demands our federal government's immediate attention. Everyone deserves clean, safe water - it's shameful that our national crisis of lead-contaminated water disproportionately hits poor black and brown communities like my own," Booker tweeted.
Did a national crisis cause Newarks clean water crisis?
Booker probably forgot that he had served as the ex-officio chairman of the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation. It's understandable that Spartacus forgot all about it because while he was running Newark, he never actually attended a single NWCDC meeting.
And, after a while, he stopped even pretending to send a representative.
The NWCDC was being paid $10 million a year to manage Newarks water.
Linda Watkins-Brashear, a Booker ally and donor, worked as the director of the NWCDC. At least until she was arrested, tried and convicted in a $1 million kickback scheme. The scandal broke during Bookers final year in office. And the NWCDC, Board of Trustees, which he was supposed to be overseeing, took swift action by dissolving the board, and writing a $450,000 check to Brashear.
It was Brashears second severance package. The first one, of $200,000, came when she left for three weeks while still continuing to receive her salary. That was the same year Booker took office.
Nice work if you can get it.
By the end, Booker hadnt even bothered sending representatives to NWCDC board meetings, which were being illegally decided by three people, while handing his political ally years of no-bid contracts.
Brashear had donated thousands of dollars to Booker and volunteered on his campaign. And she used the organization that was supposed to oversee Newarks clean water to write $200,000 in checks to herself, lose $558,000 in high risk margin trading, give her ex-husband a $332,000 no-bid interior design contract, loan $20,000 to the National Black United Fund, and cover a lobster and cognac dinner.
And now, mysteriously and inexplicably, theres a national crisis of lead in Newarks water.
You can have clean water for the people or cognac for Democrat fixers, but not both.
It truly is shameful that this national crisis of Cory Bookers corrupt political allies stealing money meant to ensure clean water disproportionately hits poor black and brown communities.
President Cory Booker will make sure that the national crisis will affect people of all races when his crooked Democrat associates are running the country the way that they ran Newark.
Booker is black. As is Brashear.
As is Donald Bernard Sr., the senior projects manager of NWCDC, who was sentenced to 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to accepting $1 million in bribes from contractors.
Clearly, this is a national crisis of environmental racism.
How did the NWCDC get away with this for so long?
Its general counsel, Elnardo Webster II, was Booker's former law partner, friend and advisor. Elnardo was working for Trenk, DiPasquale, Della Fera & Sodono, which was also Bookers former law firm. While the firm was making a fortune from city contracts, including for NWCDC, it was paying Booker $700,000.
A judge levied major fines against Bookers former law firm over its NWCDC work.
Yes, this national crisis of Cory Bookers sleaziness must be urgently addressed as he now holds an office in the national government and would like an even bigger national office.
Newark's water emergency demands our federal government's immediate attention, insists Booker, who never attended a single meeting of the organization that was supposed to be overseeing it.
And which he was supposed to be overseeing.
According to Booker, who spent most of his time in office alternating between Twitter and Oprah, he just couldnt find the time. Clean water never got his attention, immediate or otherwise.
Back in May, Cory Booker had introduced the Water Infrastructure Funding Transfer Bill to help Newark move money around. "Communities across the country don't have clean drinking water, and those communities are disproportionately low-income and communities of color, he claimed.
This is an environmental justice issue.
Its not an environmental justice issue. Its a criminal justice issue.
A normal person who chaired a board of trustees that committed flagrant illegalities, overseeing an organization where millions of dollars were stolen by one of his donors, and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a disgraced law firm connected to the scandal, all of which put the public at risk, would not be appearing running for President. He would be in prison.
The environment didnt cause this. Its not a national crisis that somehow hit Newark. Its not racial discrimination against communities of color.
Cory Booker keeps trying to blame racism for the actions of his corrupt political associates. And the Democrats keep acting as if their corruption is some sort of national problem to be blamed on us all.
Edward McRae, an NWCDC employee, set up a landscaping company to get NWCDC contracts, even though he had no experience in landscaping.
He didn't even buy landscaping equipment until he got the landscaping contract.
How did Eddie get so lucky?
McRae said that he met Brashear while working on an unstated political campaign and heard that it was raining contracts. Its unknown whose campaign it was, but it was certainly a Democrat campaign.
While Bookers pals were robbing the NWCDC blind, they knew better than to actually drink the water.
The OSC investigation found that public funds weren't just being used to buy lobster, filet magnon and cognac, but $534 for imported drinking water from Florida.
Booker is right. It is shameful.
Its shameful that the former party of segregation fastened on to black communities like a leech while blaming its corruption on racism and an imaginary national crisis. Its shameful that the media promoted Bookers routine as a progressive social media guru while failing to hold him accountable.
And its shameful that Booker and his political allies have no shame.
Instead of apologizing, Cory Booker is trying to shift the blame for his action and inaction to all Americans. Hes trying to blame racism, instead of blaming his thieving donors and allies.
When the NWCDC was stealing money meant for clean water, Booker pretended he knew nothing. Now he knows that bottled water is being handed out in Newark because of a national crisis of racist water.
Before Brashear was sentenced to 8 years in prison for stealing almost $2 million, her lawyer claimed that, there is no crime here.
Hundreds of cities, and thousands of agencies and organizations across the country have been robbed by Democrat politicians, donors and activists, the same way that Bookers pals robbed Newark.
But theres never a crime. Its always a national crisis that gets blamed on social problems and racism.
When the schools dont work (the $100 million that Mark Zuckerberg plugged into Newarks schools on Bookers behalf might as well have been set on fire), and the power is out, and theres no clean water, when residents arent evacuated ahead of a hurricane and the buildings are falling apart, its racism.
Its never the fault of the Democrats who are responsible for the schools, the buildings and the water.
If only we cared enough, the media tells us, children wouldnt be drinking water with lead. If only we paid higher taxes and sacrificed more, Bookers associates would have been able to drink twice as much cognac and gorge on twice as much lobster, king crab and filet mignon.
And now, despite years of EPA warnings, Booker is demanding that the federal government get involved. Hes right again. The federal government ought to get involved. And it ought to involve handcuffs.
Cory Booker doesnt belong in the White House. He belongs in prison.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
To get on or off the Greenfield ping list please reply to this post or notify me by Freepmail.
Louis Foxwell
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
To get on or off the Greenfield ping list please reply to this post or notify me by Freepmail.
Louis Foxwell
His family two years from now: “It just doesn’t feel like Christmas without going up to visit Cory in the federal pen.”
Apologies to Jeff Foxworthy.
With any public project, there’s always someone getting a kickback. The bigger the project, the bigger the kickback.
So will it be six consecutive Newark NJ mayors to go to prison?
What? Put him in prison with his other butt buddies?
And for raping some girl named Tbone or something like that.
Trump would pound Spartacus over the head with this.
Maybe he still should as just another example of failure in dem leadership.
Yeah, Cory must have seen some Klansmen dumping lead into the water supply. S/
Raaaaacisssssss!
If the water is clean nobody notices. That is what government is expected to do. Doing a few things well is all the GOP offers from the government. As I said nobody notices but the public sure like dramam and who creates it?
With a little more hair the guy could pass for Tommie Chong.
The scandal broke during Bookers final year in office. And the NWCDC, Board of Trustees, which he was supposed to be overseeing, took swift action by dissolving the board, and writing a $450,000 check to Brashear.
Since all the crooks and kickback folks are BLACK I'm going to call this RACIST! And if anyone has a doubt they can contact the New York Times - a corrupt newspaper that will ignore this truth or call everyone who can see the criminal activity a RACIST. RACIST RACIST RACIST....
Okay by me.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.