Newark's new choice.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Published | 2006-08-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Interviews | Cory Booker |
| Author | n/a | David Weigel |
Sometimes there's an upside to losing an election. In 2002 Cory Booker, then 33 years old, narrowly lost the race for mayor of Newark, New Jersey, to Sharpe James, an entrenched incumbent who accused him of being a Republican puppet, an outsider, and "not really black." (Both candidates were Democrats.) Booker lost in part because he supported school choice and other free market policies.
Rather than cover up his beliefs the next time around, Booker spent four years building support, working with the community, and assembling a team of pro-school choice candidates to run for...
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