![]() That would be the Brick City that Booker professed to love with the fire of a thousand suns, but did little to fundamentally change. And speaking of his former law career: Despite having resigned from his law firm once entering the mayor’s office, Booker received annual payments until 2011, during which time the firm was profiting handsomely off of Brick City. Months after he first entered the Senate, the New Jersey comptroller alleged that under Booker’s watch-or, more likely, because he was not watching-corruption ran rampant at a publicly funded water-treatment and reservoir-management agency, where Booker’s former law partner served as counsel. Attorney investigations into the Newark Watershed may have something to do with that. Yet Booker is actually having to put up a fight to be more than just a congressional seat-warmer. What’s more, Booker has once again found himself challenged by a Republican candidate who seems like he does not even want to win-a gold standard-obsessed former Reagan speechwriter named Jeff Bell, who has not lived in the Garden State for thirty years, is rumored to be running his campaign operation out of a hotel lobby, and whose idea of an attractive platform is to attack unmarried women for skewing left-wing because they are dependent on food stamps. For all anyone knows, Booker is out on the turnpike right now stopping two semi-trucks from colliding with each other through the sheer power of his charisma. And for the past year, Booker has been in Washington, posting selfies with his fellow federal lawmakers and vowing to reform the criminal-justice system. He shovels residents out of their driveways when it snows and tackles muggers with the graceful force of a former All-American tight end (which he is, of course). ![]() He saves the helpless from burning buildings and puppies from untimely deaths. Booker is friends with Oprah and Spike Lee.
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