Booker at the midway point
I suspected before, but after reading Max Pizarro’s excellent spin-down of Mayor Booker’s trounced local elections, I’m convinced: Booker has little interest in the tumult over local district seats.
A minority in the districts won’t hold up the mayor’s agenda in the council (I mean, seriously? Who’s going to vote against [...]
Brown and Adubato conquer James and Booker
The one-time $6.1 Million Dollar Man loses in a central ward chairman race against the Adubato machine. Joan Whitlow insightfully refers to politics at this level as the clay and building blocks level that generates good will and thereby “donations, votes and victory.”
Booker’s loss across the [...]
Some Booker running mates defecting
Newark City Councilman Augusto Amador no longer wants to be considered a member of Team Booker after the Mayor Cory Booker ran County Committee candidates against him and his East Ward allies.
Sources say that Central Ward Councilwoman Dana Rone, once one of Booker’s staunchest allies, and Councilman/Freeholder Donald Payne, Jr., are [...]
Worrisome returns for Newark mayor
Joanie’s back! Insightful and entertaining, Joan Whitlow deconstructs this week’s local elections.
Sure beats reading about Booker’s rims.
It is a good bet that most Newark voters looked at the ballot Tuesday, saw the candidates running for district leaders but were not quite sure who those people were, what [...]
This was a weird election. While Booker wanted to consolidate political strength by taking seats in the South Ward and determine the party chair for the Central Ward, his opponents in this election were able to hold the line. The long and short of it, as I see it, is a stalemate: no [...]
Booker sees slate of district leaders fall short
Joseph Marbach, political science professor and acting dean of the College of Arts And Sciences at Seton Hall University, said he’s not surprised that Booker is struggling to gain traction on the local level despite his popularity nationally.
During the primary season that ended Tuesday, Booker went on the [...]
Obama Clinches Nomination; First Black Candidate to Lead a Major Party Ticket
Senator Barack Obama has now clinched the number of delegates needed to receive the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Mr. Obama lost New Jersey to Senator Clinton in a primary contest earlier this year, but was overwhelmingly the choice of [...]
Lautenberg widens lead, but turnout barely over 10% in Essex
Lautenberg—Mayor Booker’s preferred candidate for the Senate—holds a healthy lead over Andrews with 77% of NJ districts reporting in. Voting remains low here as Essex County collectively phones it in.
Update: Lautenberg wins.
Amador, East Ward Democrats, feel dissed by Booker on Election Day
I absolutely must hand it to blogger Max Pizzaro at Politicker NJ. He has just brought his A-game to our fair city, scratching together a story from the hard nosed, bare-knuckle politics in this local election.
The videos he’s put together are just [...]
Fighting for Lautenberg, Rices battle low voter turnout in the West Ward
I love how this Dem describes today’s voter turnout with inescapable clarity.
“I think you’d need a search warrant to find voters at this point,” says Union County Democratic Party operative Pat Politano. “I voted at 11 o’clock and I was number 9.”