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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

New Jersey: Cory Booker logs landslide in Newark mayoral against Sharpe James' urging to "Vote Black"

MAYOR BOOKERTAKES NEWARK IN 49-PT. ROMP

By JANET FRANKSTON, AP New York Post May 10, 2006 -- Cory Booker, a 37-year-old former Rhodes scholar, was elected Newark's first new mayor in two decades by a landslide yesterday, ushering in a new era for the struggling city. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Booker had 72 percent of the total, compared to 23 percent for his nearest challenger, state Sen. Ronald Rice, a fellow Democrat.... Booker's victory in the nonpartisan election marks a generational change of black leadership in a city trying to turn around decades of urban decay. ... Booker, a former city councilman, lost to James in 2002, falling 3,500 votes short out of about 56,000 cast in a nasty race chronicled in the Oscar-nominated documentary film "Street Fight." .... Both Booker and James are black. But during the last election, James' supporters criticized the light-skinned Booker as not sufficiently black.
Some of that bitterness remained yesterday, as reflected by anti-Booker signs urging people to "vote black."
"Don't waste your vote on folks who will not and cannot represent you!" said the signs, which were posted on utility poles....
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NEWARK VOTERS EMBRACE 2002 MAYORAL LOSER

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 BY KATIE WANG AND JEFFERY C. MAYS Star-Ledger --With his political nemesis on the sidelines, Cory Booker swept to victory in the Newark mayor's race by a historic margin yesterday, collecting more than 70 percent of the vote from an electorate that rejected his candidacy four years ago.
Booker's closest challenger, state Sen. Ronald L. Rice, finished with less than 25 percent.
The election of Booker, a 37-year-old Rhodes scholar and Yale-educated lawyer who moved to Newark just a decade ago, opens a new chapter in the city's political history. A self-proclaimed reformer, he is Newark's first new mayor in 20 years and just the second since 1970. ....
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