Tax returns reveal Booker earned nearly $4 million since 1998, paid $1 million in taxes (via NJ.com)
John Munson/The Star-Ledger NEWARK — Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s political stardom has paid off well. The Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful has earned nearly $4 million from various endeavors over the past 15 years, including an average income of $577…
U.S. Senator Rand Paul is coming to New Jersey on September 13 to endorse Steve Lonegan for Senate in the October 16 Special Election against Cory Booker.
Governor Chris Christie, who had a well publicized rift with Paul over the NSA’s monitoring of domestic communications, was invited to attend the Friday afternoon rally. Christie and Paul are widely considered GOP contenders for the 2016 presidential nomination.
Christie declined the invitation because he will be away celebrating the First Lady’s 50th birthday.
Posted: September 3rd, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2013 Election, Chris Christie, Cory Booker, Rand Paul, Senate Special Election, Steve Lonegan | Tags: Chris Chrisite, Cory Booker, First Lady Mary Pat Christie, Rand Paul, Steve Lonegan | 4 Comments »Published on Aug 29, 2013
Steve Lonegan holds a NEWS conference outside the Assyrian Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary, Paramus, NJ. Also speaking is Montvale Councilman Mike Ghassali and Archbishop Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim. Video by Donald MacLeay.
Happy Labor Day.
Today we can celebrate that “government of the people, for the people and by the people” has perished from this State.
It has been replaced by government of, for and by the government workers’ unions, bureaucrats protected by civil “service” laws and contracts, and the politicians, protected by gerrymandering and incumbency, who have abdicated the most fundamental functions of government to said unions and bureaucrats. The so called public “servants.”
There have been eight people killed violently in Newark, either by shooting or stabbing, in the last seven days.
If this was a partisan political post, I’d be slamming Newark Mayor Cory Booker for the rise in crime in his city over the last over the last three years.
But that would be disingenuous. Violent crime in Newark declined from 2006, when Booker was elected mayor through November of 2010 when he laid off the 167 city police officers that had been hired since he became mayor.
Posted: September 2nd, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Chris Christie, Cory Booker, Crime, Crime and Punishment, Government Employees Unions, Government Waste, Law Enforcement, Legislature, New Jersey, Newark, NJ State Legislature | Tags: Cory Booker, Government employees unions, Governor Chris Christie, Gun Violence, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Newark, NJ Legislature, unions, violence, violent crime | 10 Comments »
“It’s easier to build a healthy child than to fix a broken man”
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By James Hogan
According to a recent poll, the majority of Americans, 50%, don’t approve of their Commander in Chief, Barack Obama. (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll ).
Beyond that, an even greater majority of Americans, over 75%, disapprove of our nation’s Congress (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html).
Meanwhile, a report regarding Syria is claiming that nearly 75% of Americans want the President (that they disapprove of) to get permission from a Congress (that they also disapprove of) before involving our nation in a war with Syria (http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/08/30/americans-obama-congress-approval-syria-strike/2736855/ ).
Even more interesting, the USA Today link claims, “When respondents were asked if the military action meant launching cruise missiles from naval warships — 50% favored it, while 44% opposed military action.”
Consider then what the poll numbers might show if Americans were asked if they were in favor or opposed to the North Koreans doing We The People a favor by parking their warships off of the coast of Virginia and start firing cruise missiles down on DC, or the homes and offices of our elected representatives, that we disapprove of?
Would Americas approve of the *friendly* aide provided by the North Koreans? Or would we unite as a nation against these aggressors, declare war on North Korea, gather our allies and crush the North Koreans for attacking our land and our people?
Before you answer, remember, the North Koreans would just be here lobbing cruise missiles at our nation to help us obtain freedom and democracy from a government that we don’t approve of, it’s not like they’d be invading our nation with soldiers or anything too terrible. They would just be providing some peace seeking missile attacks, aimed specifically at the people we don’t approve of (according to the media polls) so that we can be free at last.
Posted: August 30th, 2013 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cory Booker, James Hogan, Senate Special Election, Steve Lonegan | Tags: Cory Booker, Foreign Affairs, James Hogan, Steve Lonegan, Syria | 3 Comments »Says T-Bone “could be my Dad”
Cory Booker used to tell at story of T-Bone, a Newark drug dealer, who once threatened his life and later asked him for help avoiding arrest and prison. Booker told the story “millions of times” on the stump in Newark, at colleges and at fundraisers where the moving tale separated donors from their money.
Booker stopped telling the story after The Star Ledger questioned its veracity in 2007, even though Booker insisted T-Bone is both “1000 percent real” and an archetype.
The National Review has revived the story.
Our friends at #BookerFail found a video of Booker telling the tale, which is posted above.
Either Booker made up T-Bone, or he confessed on video to harboring a fugitive.
Posted: August 29th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Cory Booker, Newark, Senate Special Election | Tags: #BookeraFail, Cory Booker, National Review, T-Bone | 3 Comments »
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Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Cory Booker will be attending a private meeting of the Monmouth Democrats Chairman’s Club on Friday, August 30th at a yet to be determined location in eastern Monmouth County, according to a Democratic source familiar with Booker’s schedule.
The event is closed to the press and is open to Chairman’s Club members only, according to the source.
Chairman’s Club members donate $35 per month or $50 per couple (married or civil union) per month to the Monmouth County Democratic Organization.
Posted: August 27th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Cory Booker, Monmouth Democrats, Senate Special Election | Tags: Chairman's Club, Cory Booker, Monmouth Dems | 4 Comments »He’s not coming out. He’s not saying he’s straight either. Just like his income, he’s not saying.
But he wants us to consider the possibility that he is gay, so that we can confront our homophobia, so he told The Washington Post:
And people who think I’m gay, some part of me thinks it’s wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I’m gay, and I say, ‘So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I’m straight.
OK. I considered it. I don’t care and I am not voting for him because I presume he’s straight.
I would like to see his tax returns, though.
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