In Newark, a More Welcoming Response to Occupiers

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The protesters attracted no drum circles but bobbed their heads to the rap music blasting from a passing sedan.

They have crossed paths with few one-percenters — the group assembles not near Wall Street but across from a moldering shop that sells striped pajamas for 99 cents.

And there has been no pepper spray. But protesters did receive a personal delivery of doughnuts and coffee from the mayor on a recent Saturday night. “It was cold,” Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark said. “I thought it would be nice.”

Indeed, the Occupy Newark protest has unfolded with disarming civility in one of the nation’s grittiest cities.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/nyregion/occupy-newark-is-met-with-mostly-warm-response.html

[Dawson Leery]

1. Cory Booker wants to be Governor.

He would be wise not to anger the working class as well as the liberals.