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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Data Undermine Booker Claim of Newark Rebound

Presidential contender Cory Booker (D.) claimed in a Tuesday interview with the Carroll Times Herald that he can bring the same revitalization to rural America that he did to Newark, N.J.

But if Booker wants to do to rural America what he did to Newark, then rural America needs to watch out. Data show that the New Jersey metropolis where Booker was a city council member (1998-2002) and mayor (2006-2013) continued to struggle during and after his time in government.

Following a campaign stop in Carroll, Iowa, Booker told the Times Herald that his approach to reinvigorating Newark could "100%" revitalize rural America.

"I have a chip on my shoulder for any community, rural, Appalachian Mountain, factory town, any communities that are looked down on or left for dead or disrespected or underestimated," Booker told the Times Herald. "That gets my blood boiling. I think that our rural areas have wealth, have potential, have possibility, if we will come to them creatively and think about ways to restore what I think are important parts of our heritage."

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a tool!!

Anonymous said...

He intends to turn rural America into a ghetto?

Anonymous said...

He'll "...bring the same revitalization to rural America that he did to Newark, N.J."

Please, no, don't!

Anonymous said...

He'll bring ........... NOTHING ......... to US Citizens. All you dummies vote for him.

Anonymous said...

Doesn't have a plan or base. "he States: we will come to them creatively and THINK about ways to RESTORE what I THINK ....Our heritage" if you want to be President have a plan Words ate cheap.

Anonymous said...


Yep, old Spartacus certainly turned Newark into a garden spot, didn't he? /sarc