Cory Booker is, by far, the best thing that ever happened to Newark and, given the magnitude of the genuine obstacles that he faces, the idea that he has to spend one millisecond dealing with this vicious, self-serving idiocy makes my stomach turn and blood boil...

The administration’s defenders say that most of the recall initiative’s backers are simply seeking to regain the status they lost with the departure of Mr. James, who ran the city for two decades after serving 16 years in the Council. Mr. Baraka’s son, Ras Baraka, for example, was a former South Ward council member and deputy mayor under Mr. James who lost his Council seat in the pro-Booker tsunami that swept into office last year. Colleen Walton, the city’s former director of human resources, and Patricia Sellers-Bradford, a taxi commissioner, both of whom were replaced after Mr. Booker took office, are also leaders in the recall movement.

In a city whose main employer is local government and where unemployment is 8.5 percent, almost twice the state average, being a shrill mayoral critic has frequently led to a job in City Hall. Both Dr. Walton and Ms. Sellers-Bradford, for instance, were tenacious thorns for Mayor James until he brought them into his administration. Mr. Booker, in an interview, said Ms. Sellers-Bradford had approached him in recent months seeking a job.

What this really underscores is how deep the depravity was under Sharpe James...

 

Don't give these people one inch, Cory!  If you do, it will open a Pandora's Box...

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The Hard Part

Newark’s Mayor Battles Old Guard and Rumors

By ANDREW JACOBS

Published: July 3, 2007

www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/nyregion/03dissent.html

NEWARK, July 2 — The rumors and tall tales, born in Internet chat rooms and anonymous mailings, gain traction in barbershops, on basketball courts and after church on Sunday.