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malaise

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4. He has a history
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 02:42 PM
Apr 2025

He won an upset victory for a seat on the Municipal Council of Newark in 1998, staging a 10-day hunger strike and briefly living in a tent to draw attention to urban development issues in the city. He ran for mayor in 2002 but lost to incumbent Sharpe James. He ran again in 2006 and defeated Deputy Mayor Ronald Rice. Booker's first term saw the doubling of affordable housing under development and the reduction of the city budget deficit from $180 million to $73 million. He was reelected in 2010. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in a 2013 special election and reelected in 2014 and in 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker

This is amazing -approaching 20 hours and says he will continue on 😀


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