By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org If black voters in New Jersey don’t come out Wednesday in full force for Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker, it could be an easy victory for Republican Steve Lonegan, former mayor of Bogota,…
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VIDEO: Cory Booker-Steve Lonegan Oct. 9 debate REMIX
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org Here’s a mash-up of the best moments from the New Jersey U.S. Senate debate between Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Republican former mayor of Bogota, Steve Lonegan. The debate originally aired on…
Booker and Lonegan’s New Jersey consensus: The taxes are too damn high
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org TRENTON — One is a tea partyer and the other is a Twitter partyer. One runs New Jersey’s most populist city and the other runs the state’s biggest conservative organization….
The 10 most GIFable moments from the Booker-Lonegan debate
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org There was a grand debate at Channel 6 Studios in Trenton, N.J., on Friday to determine who would be the best candidate for U.S. Senate. There was this guy, Cory Booker, the Democratic candidate…
Billionaire Bloomberg bails out Booker
BIG FRIENDS: This ad for New Jersey U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker was paid for by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Super PAC. By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org NEWARK, N.J. — A large cornerstone of Newark Mayor Cory Booker‘s campaign…
Cory Booker labels Steve Lonegan ‘extreme,’ but wants minimum wage hike of 40 percent
By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org A new ad released by Newark Mayor Cory Booker‘s campaign for the special U.S. Senate election in New Jersey paints a demagogic picture of his Republican opponent, former Bogota Mayor Steve…
Shutdown sparks New Jersey confusion about Obamacare
Photo by captaincinema. A protester holds up a sign at a health care town hall in Illinois in 2009. By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org It’s that time again. The heat of looming deadline turns the nation’s…