Thursday, December 20, 2012
Speculation about Newark mayor's plans swirled for months
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- Paul Milo
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Newark Mayor Cory Booker ended months of speculation Thursday when he announced that he was considering a run for US Senate. “[ I ] will complete my full second term as mayor. As for my political future, I will explore the possibility of running for The United States Senate in 2014,” Booker said in a statement released shortly before noon. Political observers in the state and beyond have speculated whether Booker, 43, a Rhodes scholar and Bergen County native, would run for governor against Chris Christie in 2013 or seek the Senate seat now held by Booker’s fellow Democrat Frank Lautenberg. Lautenberg, at 88 the Senate’s oldest member, has not announced any plans to step down when his term expires in 2014. In his statement, Booker’s …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Mayor would go for Lautenberg's seat in '14, paper says
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- Paul Milo
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Newark Mayor Cory Booker appears likely to seek the US Senate seat currently held by fellow Democrat Frank Lautenberg. At a July appearance in Bergen County, Booker confirmed long-held suspicions he might be seeking higher office, announcing his interest in running either for Senate or against popular Republican Gov. Chris Christie. Earlier this month, Booker vowed to make his decision before Christmas. In an October poll, Booker had the strongest showing among a hypothetical field of Democrats against Christie, with the mayor coming within a few percentage points of the first-term governor. But a subsequent poll, taken after Christie’s widely praised performance during Hurricane Sandy, …
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Senate Democrats blocked a bill that would have denied healthcare and contraception to over 600,000 women in New Jersey.
An extreme measure to limit women’s access to contraception and other preventive health services was defeated in the Senate today by a narrow margin of 51 to 48. Sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), the Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer or health plan, whether religious or secular, to deny women and their families access to a wide range of preventive and life-saving health care, based on the employer’s or insurer’s “moral” objections. The amendment would have included mammograms, contraception, maternity care, mental health services, and even emergency room care. "Democrats have fought back and defeated this extreme proposal to hand over a woman's personal health care decisions to her employer," declared Senator Frank R. …
Adam Kraemer
12:29 pm on Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Dan: - Unfortunately Newark has had some extremely bad mayors in the last half a century. The former mayors had a tendency to end up in jail. Comparing Corey Booker to Sharp James, Kenneth Gibson, Huge Adinizo, of Ralph Viliani is not a high bar for comparison. I don't see great management of Newark’s fiscal affairs, I don't see great improvement in police protection, fire protection, sanitation… more ›