??New York Times??: “Be Careful What You Wish For”:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/30njBOOKER.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin (via “Newark Speaks”:http://www.newarkspeaks.com/forum/showthread.php?p=20225#post20225).
Booker takes a combative tone in this interview with Times reporter Josh Benson. Citing management inspiration from New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Booker talks about making his campaign promises a reality: bring safety to the city streets, overhauling education, and dealing with a potential fiscal crisis. These must be interesting but harrowing times for our young new mayor-to-be.
CALL Cory Booker idealistic, pragmatic or some combination of the two. Just don’t call him naïve.
“I’ll take that criticism,” he said, his eyes boring in on his questioner. “I’m politically naïve, but I’m a guy who started in this process four or five years ago, who took on the biggest, toughest political machine, urban political machine in the state of New Jersey. And I’m sitting here right now, naïve as I am, 40 points ahead of my opponent — maybe 50 points, according to our internal polls — ready to become the mayor of the City of Newark.”
Mr. Booker ended by asserting that he was, in fact, “naïve like a fox.”
