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Cory Booker
Booker at the 2011 Time 100 Gala
36th Mayor of Newark
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 1, 2006
Preceded bySharpe James
Central Ward Council Member of the
Newark City Council
In office
1998–2002
Personal details
Born
Cory Anthony Booker

(1969-04-27) April 27, 1969 (age 55)
Washington, D.C.
Political partyDemocratic
Alma materStanford University (B.A., M.A.)
Oxford University (M.A.)
Yale Law School (J.D.)
ProfessionAttorney
WebsiteMayoral website
Campaign website

Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician who is the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He was first elected in 2006, and had served as a City Councilor from 1998 to 2002. He ran for Mayor in 2002, but lost to incumbent Sharpe James; he ran again in 2006 and won against Deputy Mayor Ronald Rice. Booker is the third African-American mayor of Newark.

He is a graduate of Stanford University, Yale Law School, and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. After college, Booker won an upset victory for a seat on the Newark City Council, defeating four-term incumbent George Branch.

Booker has gained a reputation for his personal involvement in public service, including going on a 10-day hunger strike outdoors to draw attention to the dangers of open-air drug dealing, living on a "food stamp" budget to raise awareness of food insecurity, shoveling the driveway of a constituent upon request, allowing hurricane victims into his home, and saving a woman from a house fire at his own risk.

Early life and education

Booker was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the affluent town of Harrington Park, New Jersey, 20 miles (32 km) north of Newark.[2] His parents, Cary Alfred and Carolyn Rose (Jordan) Booker, were among the first black executives at IBM.[2][3][4] In 2009, he told US News that he was raised in a religious household, and that he and his family attended a small African Methodist Episcopal Church in New Jersey.[1] Booker graduated from Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan and was named to the USA Today All-USA high school football team in 1986.

Booker went on to Stanford University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1991 and a Master of Arts in sociology the following year. While at Stanford, Booker played varsity football.[5] He also made the All–Pacific Ten Academic team and was elected senior class president.[6][7] In addition, he ran The Bridge, a student-run crisis hotline, and organized help from Stanford students for youth in East Palo Alto.[8] After Stanford, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where he earned an honors degree in U.S. history in 1994 as a member of The Queen's College.[7] Booker received a Juris Doctor in 1997 from Yale Law School, where he operated free legal clinics for low-income residents of New Haven. At Yale, he was a founding member of the Chai Society (now the Eliezer Society).[9] He was also a Big Brother and was active in the National Black Law Students Association.[10] Booker lived in Newark during his final year at Yale.[11]

Early political career

After graduation, Booker served as Staff Attorney for the Urban Justice Center in New York and Program Coordinator of the Newark Youth Project.[12]

In 1998, Booker won an upset victory for a seat on the Newark City Council, defeating four-term incumbent George Branch.[13] To draw attention to the problems of open-air drug dealing and the associated violence, Booker went on a 10-day hunger strike and lived in a tent and later in a motor home near drug dealing areas of the city.[14] He proposed Council initiatives that impacted housing, young people, law and order, and the efficiency and transparency of City Hall, but was regularly outvoted 8–1.[15]

2002 mayoral election

In 2002, rather than run for re-election as councilman, Booker ran for mayor of Newark.[16] This pitted him against longtime incumbent Sharpe James. In this campaign, James' supporters questioned Booker's suburban background, calling him a carpetbagger who was "not black enough" to understand the city.[17] Booker was defeated 47% to 53%.

After finishing his term as Central Ward Councilman, in 2002 Booker founded Newark Now, a grassroots non-profit organization that connects Newarkers to useful resources and services in order to help transform their communities.[18] In addition, Booker also became a partner at a West Orange law firm – Booker, Rabinowitz, Trenk, Tully, Lubetkin, DiPasquale, and Webster – and a senior fellow at Rutgers University's Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.

2006 mayoral election

Booker announced on February 11, 2006, that he would again run for mayor. Incumbent Mayor James declined to seek a sixth term,[19] and Deputy Mayor Ronald Rice decided to run as well.[20] Booker's campaign outspent Rice's 25 to 1, for which Rice attacked him. As well as raising over $6 million for the race, Booker attacked Rice as a "political crony" of James.[21][22] Booker won the nonpartisan election of May 9, 2006, with 72% of the vote. His slate of City Council candidates, known as the "Booker Team," swept the Council elections, giving Booker firm leadership of the city government.[23]

Mayor of Newark

Before taking office as mayor, Booker sued the James administration seeking to terminate cut-rate land deals favoring two redevelopment agencies that had contributed to James' campaigns and listed James as a member of their advisory boards. Booker argued that the state’s “pay-to-play” laws had been violated and that the land deals would cost the city more than $15 million in lost revenue. Specifically, Booker referenced a parcel on Broad and South streets that would generate only $87,000 under the proposed land deals yet was valued at $3.7 million under then-current market rates.[24] On June 20, 2006, Superior Court Judge Patricia Costello ruled in favor of Booker.[25] In late June 2006, before Booker took office, New Jersey investigators foiled a plot to assassinate Booker led by Bloods gang leaders inside four New Jersey state prisons. The motive for the plot was unclear, but was described variously as a response to the acrimonious campaign [26] and to Booker's campaign promises to take a harder line on crime.[26]

First term

Booker assumed office as Mayor of Newark on July 1, 2006, the third consecutive black mayor since 1970.[27][28][29] After his first week in office, Booker announced a 100-day plan to implement reforms in Newark. Some of the proposed changes included adding police officers, ending background checks for many city jobs (an effort to help former offenders find employment in the city), refurbishing police stations, improving city services, and expanding summer youth programs.[30]

On October 16, 2006, Booker formally introduced his administration's first adopted Newark City Budget. The approved a $697.1 million budget resulted in an 8.3% increase in the city's property tax, which is one of the largest property tax increases in the city's history. The budget also increased the number of city employees from 3,968 to 4,197.[31] These increases were cited as necessary to fix the structural financial deficit and secure a solid foundation for Newark’s future. Booker pledged to not increase taxes the following year, a promise he kept – the City of Newark did not raise taxes for the following two years. In addition, the City of Newark in 2008 and 2009 received the Government Finance Officers Associations "Distinguished Budget Presentation Award".[32][33]

Booker at a fundraiser with New York County District Attorney candidate Cyrus Vance, Jr., 2009

One of Bookers's first priorities was to reduce the city's crime rate. To do so, he appointed Garry McCarthy, former Deputy Commissioner of Operations of the New York City Police Department, as the director of the Newark Police Department.[34] Public safety in Newark has been overhauled under Director McCarthy’s lead, and a new Central Narcotics Division was created as well as a Fugitive Apprehension Unit, which has been responsible for the capture of 11 out of 12 Most Wanted Felons in Newark. In addition, major technological advances have been made to crime-fighting initiatives such as citywide camera and gunshot detection systems. Community-oriented and privately funded programs such as the Crime Stoppers and Gun Stoppers anonymous tip lines have made an important impact in crime prevention and apprehension of criminals in Newark. Crime reduction has been such a central concern to the Booker Administration that Booker, along with his security team, was known to personally patrol the streets of Newark until times as late as 4 a.m.[35]

Crime dropped significantly in the city of Newark, which led the nation in violent crime reduction from 2006 to 2008. In those years, crime dropped by the following percentages: murders 36%, shooting incidents 41%, rapes 30%, and auto thefts 26%.[35] In 2008, Newark had its lowest murder rate since 1959.[35] March 2010 marked Newark’s first murder-free month in over 44 years. As of April 1, 2010, the murder rate in Newark was the second best since 1941, and crime rates for aggravated assaults, robberies, carjacking, and shootings were also down for the first quarter compared to 2009.[36] In addition to his crime-lowering initiatives, Booker both doubled the amount of affordable housing under development and quadrupled the amount under pre-development, and reduced the city budget deficit from $180 million to $73 million.[37][38]

Despite criticisms, Booker also raised the salaries of many city workers.[35] However, the Booker administration and the City of Newark imposed one-day-a-month furloughs for all non-uniformed employees from July through December 2010, as well as 2% pay cuts for managers and directors currently earning more than $100,000 a year. Citing the reason for the pay cuts, Booker noted, "In 2006, we took over a city in financial crisis. We have made significant steps to address our financial future and decided that we would not balance the budget on the backs of our residents."[39] Booker has reduced his own salary twice since taking office, voluntarily reducing his salary by 8% early in his first year as Mayor. As of 2011, none of Booker’s senior managers had received pay increases since taking office.[40]

In April 2008, the Newark Charter School Fund was established to provide grants in support of Newark’s charter schools to support a successful public school system in Newark.[41] The City of Newark also works with GreenSpaces, which has committed $40 million toward the largest park expansion initiative in over a century, with a total of 21 park construction and rehabilitation projects affecting every ward.[42] To support the Newark Police Department, the Newark Police Foundation was established in 2006. It provides funding and other services to the Police Department and has had a significant impact on the NPD’s ability to pay for necessary resources that would otherwise not be readily funded through the department’s budget.[43]

In an effort to make government more accessible, Booker's administration has held regular open office hours during which city residents can meet personally with the Mayor to discuss their concerns.[44] Booker is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition,[45] a bi-partisan group with a stated goal of "making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets." Booker was honored in October 2009 by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence with the Sarah Brady Visionary Award for his work in reducing gun violence.[46] He was among the finalists for the 2010 World Mayor prize, ultimately placing seventh.[47] He is a candidate for the 2012 prize.[48]

In his bid for re-election, Booker faced former Essex County Prosecutor Clifford Minor, Yvonne Garrett Moore, and Mirna White. Booker won re-election on May 11, 2010, winning 59% of the vote.[49]

Second term

Booker made news when on December 28, 2010,[50] a constituent used Twitter to ask the Mayor to send someone to her father's house to shovel his driveway because her elderly father was going to attempt to do it himself. Booker responded by tweeting; "I will do it myself; where does he live?" Other people volunteered, including one person who offered his help on Twitter, and 20 minutes later Booker and some volunteers showed up and shoveled the man's driveway.[51] In 2010, Samepoint released a study that measured the social media influence of Mayors around the country, ranking Booker second Most Social Mayor behind San Francisco's Gavin Newsom.[52]

On April 12, 2012, Booker saved a woman from a house fire, suffering smoke inhalation and second degree burns on his hands in the process. Newark Fire Chief John Centanni said that Booker's actions possibly saved the woman's life.[53]

After Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of the shoreline areas of New Jersey and New York in late October 2012, Booker invited Newarkers still without power to eat and sleep in his home.[54]

On November 20, 2012, a melee occurred at a Newark City Council meeting attended by Booker.[55] The nine-seat council was to vote on the successor to the seat vacated by newly-elected U.S. Congessman Donald M. Payne Jr.. Opponents of the mayor on the council, including Ras Baraka, sought to place John Sharpe James, son of the former mayor, while Booker and his supporters favored Shanique Speight. Mayor Booker attended the meeting to deal with the eventuality of the lack of a quorum or a tie vote,in which case state law would allow him to cast a deciding vote. After Baraka was refused an opportunity to address the council by acting Council President Anibal Ramos, Jr., Baraka and two other council members walked off the dais in protest, whereupon Booker cast the deciding vote for Speight. Supporters of James stormed the stage and were held back by riot police, who eventually used pepper spray on some members of the crowd.[56] Baraka later blamed Booker for inciting the disturbance, while the mayor refused comment to the media after the vote.[55][56]

In December 2012, after discussions with a constituent about New Jersey's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Booker began a week-long challenge attempting to live on a food budget of $30 per week – the amount SNAP recipients receive.[57] When critics noted that the very name of the SNAP program shows that it is intended to "supplement" an individual's food budget, not be its sole source, Booker replied that his aim was to spark a discussion about the "reality" that many Americans rely solely on food stamps to survive.[58]

Public opinion summary

Throughout his mayoralty, Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU)'s public policy center PublicMind, has asked constituents whether or not they have heard of Mayor Booker, and whether they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him.

Other activities

President Obama association

Booker campaigning for Barack Obama in Newark, 2007

In 2009, after Barack Obama became President of the United States, Booker was offered the chance to head the new White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy. Booker turned the offer down, citing a commitment to Newark.[35]

Booker generated controversy on May 12, 2012, when he appeared on Meet The Press as a surrogate for the re-election campaign of Barack Obama and made remarks which were critical of that campaign.[63] Booker stated that the attacks on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital were "nauseating to me on both sides. It's nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity. Stop attacking Jeremiah Wright."[63] Some objected to Booker's remarks because Romney made claims about job creation at Bain central to his campaign. Others criticized Booker, saying his comments were motivated by his closeness to and dependence on Wall Street donors. The comments were subsequently utilized by the Romney campaign against Obama.[64] Booker made followup comments clarifying that he now believed Obama's attacks on Romney's record at Bain were legitimate but did not retract his point about attacking private equity in general.[65]

Two weeks later, Booker's communications director Anne Torres tendered her resignation, although she maintained it was unrelated to Meet the Press.[66]

Booker spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in support of President Obama.[67]

Affiliations and honors

Booker sits on the board of advisers of the political action committee "Democrats for Education Reform".[68] Booker is currently a member of the Board of Trustees at Teachers College, Columbia University, and was formerly a member of the Executive Committee at Yale Law School and the Board of Trustees at Stanford University.

In May 2009, Booker received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Newark-based New Jersey Institute of Technology for 'his outstanding career in public service as the Mayor of Newark'.[69] In May 2009, Booker received an honorary doctorate from Brandeis University, and was a commencement speaker that year as well.[70] He received another honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in December 2010 from Yeshiva University for "his bold vision for Newark and setting a national standard for urban transformation".[71] In June 2011, Booker received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Williams College for the urban transformation of Newark. He was also the 2011 Williams College commencement speaker.[72] In May 2012, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Bard College and gave the commencement speech at the graduation.[73] In 2010, Booker delivered the commencement addresses at Pitzer College in Claremont, California on May 15, Columbia University's Teachers College in New York City on May 17, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts, a week later on May 23, 2010. He gave the commencement address to New York Law School graduates on May 13, 2011, at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. He delivered a commencement address to Stanford University graduates on June 17, 2012, at Stanford Stadium.[74] He also received an honorary degree at Fairleigh Dickinson's 69th Commencement Ceremony in May 2012.[75]

Films

Booker's 2002 mayoral campaign, which he lost, was chronicled by filmmaker Marshall Curry in his documentary Street Fight. The film was nominated for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Since 2009, Booker has starred in the documentary series Brick City, which airs on the Sundance Channel. Season 2 of the series is currently airing. The series focuses on Booker and his efforts to reduce crime in Newark and bring economic renewal to a city that has been blighted by drugs, gangs and unemployment for years. Brick City has won a Peabody Award, and was nominated for a 2010 Primetime Emmy.

Booker also contributed to the 2011 documentary Miss Representation and commented on the representations of women in politics within mass media.

Mark Zuckerberg donation

In July 2010, Booker attended a dinner at a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, where he was seated with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg, who had no known ties to Newark, announced in September 2010 that he was donating $100 million of his personal fortune to the Newark school system. According to an article in the New York Times, Booker and Zuckerberg continued their conversation about Booker's plans for Newark. The initial gift was made to start a foundation for education. The gift was formally announced when Booker, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and Zuckerberg appeared together on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah Winfrey also has been a supporter of Booker and reportedly has given millions to Newark schools and organizations.

The timing of Zuckerberg's donation was questioned by some as a move for damage control to his image, as it was announced on the opening day of the movie The Social Network, a film that painted an unflattering portrait of Zuckerberg. On her show, however, Winfrey told the audience that Zuckerberg and Booker had been in talks for months and had actually planned the announcement for the previous month, and additionally, she and Booker had to force Zuckerberg to put his name to the donation, which he had wanted to make anonymously.[76]

"Feud" with Conan O'Brien

In the fall of 2009, Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien engaged in a satirical on-air and YouTube feud with Booker, with O'Brien jokingly insulting the city of Newark and Booker responding that he would ban O'Brien from the airport. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for the feud to end during a prepared comedy bit, telling Booker to chalk it up to a head injury suffered by O'Brien less than two weeks earlier.[77] Booker then appeared on O'Brien's show and assured viewers that the feud was over and that he was actually a big fan of O'Brien. O'Brien agreed that every time he made a joke about Newark, he would donate $500 to the City of Newark and also made a $50,000 donation to the Newark Now charity, which was matched by NBC Universal.

Personal life

One of Booker's maternal great-grandfathers was caucasian, and Booker also has other European and Native American ancestry.[4][78][79]

Booker exercises, has been a vegetarian (for health and environmental reasons) since his days at Oxford, does not drink alcohol, is uninterested in accumulating "stuff," and "has no known vices or addictions" other than books and coffee.[80]

From 1998 to 2006, Booker lived in Brick Towers, a troubled housing complex in Newark's Central Ward. Booker organized tenants to fight for improved conditions. In November 2006, as one of the last remaining tenants in Brick Towers, Booker left his apartment for the top unit in a three-story rental on Hawthorne Avenue in Newark's South Ward, an area described as "a drug-and gang-plagued neighborhood of boarded-up houses and empty lots."[81] Brick Towers has since been demolished, and a new mixed-income development was built there in 2010.[82]

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