Cory Booker Wins Senate Special Election Primary | #NJSEN | At the Races
JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
Newark Mayor Cory Booker won the Democratic primary Tuesday and is now favored to win the New Jersey Senate special election in October.
Booker held off three other elected officials in the no-drama, two-month sprint to win the low-turnout nomination fight with relative ease. Less than an hour after polls closed, Booker led with 56 percent of the vote when the Associated Press called the race with just 7 percent of precincts reporting.
Trailing Booker was Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. with 25 percent, Rep. Rush D. Holt with 14 percent and state Speaker Sheila Oliver with 4 percent.
In the Oct. 16 special to fill the remaining term of the late Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, Booker faces Republican nominee Steve Lonegan. In the GOP primary, Lonegan, a legally blind conservative activist and former mayor of a small borough in Bergen County, handily defeated Alieta Eck, a physician and first-time candidate.
Beyond his financial advantage and personal popularity, Booker is a heavy favorite thanks to the state’s strong Democratic lean in federal elections. President Barack Obama won the state with 58 percent in 2012, and no Republican has been elected to the Senate from New Jersey in four decades.
The race is rated Safe Democratic by Rothenberg Political Report/Roll Call.
After Gov. Chris Christie set the special election date in early June — a day after Lautenberg died of viral pneumonia — Booker entered the race as the instant front-runner. He boasted a national profile and was able to count on well-connected friends in the political, entertainment and tech worlds for support.
When it came to fundraising, he left the competition in the dust. After filing with the Federal Election Commission in January, Booker raised $8.6 million through July 24, the end of the pre-primary fundraising period.
Booker’s name identification advantage, impressive campaign team and the short timeframe of the race allowed the mayor to cruise into primary day with his margin of victory and potential fit in the Senate the only lingering questions.
Deeper dives into Booker’s finances, including details of a sizable stake in an internet company called Waywire and the annual payouts he reportedly received since leaving his former law firm, didn’t surface until the last week of the race and apparently had no bearing on the end result.
Pallone’s endorsement by the Lautenberg family and Holt’s background as a nuclear physicist never provided the spark both needed. The special-election clock ran out on them, but they have options for 2014: seek re-election to the House or challenge the eventual winner of this Senate seat for a full term. http://atr.rollcall.com/cory-booker-wins-senate-special-election-primary-njsen/
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Method to Racist Madness in Fresh Racial Attacks on President Barack Obama. : ThyBlackMan.com
Method to Racist Madness in Fresh Racial Attacks on President Barack Obama. : ThyBlackMan.com
JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
In quick succession in one week’s time, a protestor waves a sign “bye bye black sheep” and a small chorus chimes in and puts it to the popular song ditty of “Bye, Bye, Blackbird” in front of Desert Vista High School in Phoenix where President Obama spoke about housing finance reform. Hundreds of attendees at a Missouri state fair roared with laughter and applause at a rodeo clown’s mocking Barack Obama. In Orlando, a knot of protestors wave racially insulting signs including “Kenyan Go Home” at Obama’s motorcade. And a GOP congressman hints that there’s sentiment among House Republicans for an Obama impeachment drive over questions about his American citizenship. These despicable and outrageous displays of racism should be condemned. But at least they’re honest in that the upfront bigots shredded the carefully honed script that has been the template for the racially sneaky and insidious attacks on Obama. The script reads like this: Whenever an elected official, Tea Party figure, or even leader, or gobs of protestors wave their racially loaded signs, posters, and shout racially derogatory barbs at Obama, Tea Party and GOP leaders chalk it up to variously a fringe few, or crank, and then wail that it’s blatantly unfair to, as well as politically conniving, to tar the Tea Party, let alone, the GOP as racist for the acts of a kooky few. They’d have a legitimate grip except for one, actually two, small points. In 2012 a Brown University social scientist used polling experiments and an independent survey to identify a series of issues that have been bitter and contentious between Obama and the GOP and that are seemingly race neutral such as tax policy, health care reform, Supreme Court appointments, and political party identification. He found that those with a racial antipathy toward blacks were more prone to oppose anything that Obama supported. http://thyblackman.com/2013/08/13/method-to-racist-madness-in-fresh-racial-attacks-on-president-barack-obama/
JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
In quick succession in one week’s time, a protestor waves a sign “bye bye black sheep” and a small chorus chimes in and puts it to the popular song ditty of “Bye, Bye, Blackbird” in front of Desert Vista High School in Phoenix where President Obama spoke about housing finance reform. Hundreds of attendees at a Missouri state fair roared with laughter and applause at a rodeo clown’s mocking Barack Obama. In Orlando, a knot of protestors wave racially insulting signs including “Kenyan Go Home” at Obama’s motorcade. And a GOP congressman hints that there’s sentiment among House Republicans for an Obama impeachment drive over questions about his American citizenship. These despicable and outrageous displays of racism should be condemned. But at least they’re honest in that the upfront bigots shredded the carefully honed script that has been the template for the racially sneaky and insidious attacks on Obama. The script reads like this: Whenever an elected official, Tea Party figure, or even leader, or gobs of protestors wave their racially loaded signs, posters, and shout racially derogatory barbs at Obama, Tea Party and GOP leaders chalk it up to variously a fringe few, or crank, and then wail that it’s blatantly unfair to, as well as politically conniving, to tar the Tea Party, let alone, the GOP as racist for the acts of a kooky few. They’d have a legitimate grip except for one, actually two, small points. In 2012 a Brown University social scientist used polling experiments and an independent survey to identify a series of issues that have been bitter and contentious between Obama and the GOP and that are seemingly race neutral such as tax policy, health care reform, Supreme Court appointments, and political party identification. He found that those with a racial antipathy toward blacks were more prone to oppose anything that Obama supported. http://thyblackman.com/2013/08/13/method-to-racist-madness-in-fresh-racial-attacks-on-president-barack-obama/
Ex-Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty In Baltimore Jail Conspiracy « CBS Baltimore
Ex-Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty In Baltimore Jail Conspiracy « CBS Baltimore
JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
A corrections officer at the Baltimore City Detention Center has pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into the facility for members of the Black Guerilla Family gang.
Jennifer Owens, 31, of Randallstown entered the plea Tuesday in federal court in Baltimore. She faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison at sentencing in January.
Owens is among more than two dozen people charged in April in a vast drug-smuggling operation at the downtown Baltimore jail. One of the alleged leaders of the gang, Tavon White, pleaded guilty last month to racketeering conspiracy.
Prosecutors say Owens, who has two children by White, smuggled pills, marijuana and tobacco in the jail on behalf of White and others. http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/08/13/ex-corrections-officer-pleads-guilty-in-baltimore-jail-conspiracy/
JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
A corrections officer at the Baltimore City Detention Center has pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into the facility for members of the Black Guerilla Family gang.
Jennifer Owens, 31, of Randallstown entered the plea Tuesday in federal court in Baltimore. She faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison at sentencing in January.
Owens is among more than two dozen people charged in April in a vast drug-smuggling operation at the downtown Baltimore jail. One of the alleged leaders of the gang, Tavon White, pleaded guilty last month to racketeering conspiracy.
Prosecutors say Owens, who has two children by White, smuggled pills, marijuana and tobacco in the jail on behalf of White and others. http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/08/13/ex-corrections-officer-pleads-guilty-in-baltimore-jail-conspiracy/
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