This man should run for president one day - I really like him!

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69. In Which I Rain on Everyone’s Cory Booker Parade

you might ask why newark has so few city workers.

booker = neolib enacting neolib austerity & privatization policies.

http://coreyrobin.com/2012/04/13/in-which-i-rain-on-everyones-cory-booker-parade/


Do liberals love the Manhattan Institute? Do they favor the use of vouchers to take resources from public schools? Are they fans of the Wal-Mart Walton family? The answer to those questions is usually an unqualified no. Why then do liberals adore Cory Booker?

Cory Booker first came to public attention with a speech at a Manhattan Institute luncheon in 2000...Booker’s maiden speech was a stale hodgepodge of bad political theater. It began with a phony sounding story of Booker’s grandmother dispensing sage advice as he left for Oxford. It ends with attacks on public education itself.

Do Booker’s liberal acolytes know that he favors public dollars for parochial schools? While lamenting the lack of academic achievement in Newark, Booker called for “school choice,” a code for vouchers. He said nothing about school funding formulas in New Jersey and around the country that take public school funding from cities like Newark and give them to the suburbs.

Who knew that liberals would support a Walton/Bradley supplicant? Booker knows they won’t, so he tones down his connections to the right wing who put his name on the map.

http://www.blackcommentator.com/177/177_freedom_rider_cory_booker.html