Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Booker is a former Newark City Councilman. Booker was elected Mayor in 2006, becoming the 36th Mayor of Newark and the third black mayor of that city. Contents 1 Background 2 Central Ward council member 3 2002 mayoral run 4 2006 mayoral run 5 2010 re-election 6 Mayoral administration 7 Senior cabinet 8 Film 9 Mark Zuckerberg donation 10 Conan O'Brien "feud" 11 See also 12 References 13 External links [edit] Background Booker was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the predominantly white, affluent town of Harrington Park in Bergen County, New Jersey.[1] Booker's parents, Carolyn Rose (née Jordan) and Cary Alfred Booker, were among the first black executives at IBM.[2][3] One of Booker's maternal great-grandfathers was caucasian, and Booker also has other European and Native American ancestry.[3][4][5] Booker is an alumn! us of Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, where he was a 1986 USA Today All-American football player.[6] Following graduation, Booker traveled west to study at Stanford University and earned a B.A . in political science in 1991 as well as an M.A. in sociology the following year. He played varsity football — he made the All–Pacific Ten Academic team — and was elected to the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) council of (four) presidents. In addition, he ran The Bridge, a student-run crisis hotline and organized help for youth in East Palo Alto, from Stanford students.[7] While at Stanford, Booker also became good friends with Rachel Maddow. After Stanford, Booker earned a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he was awarded an honours degree in modern history in 1994. While at Oxford, he became friends with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the local chapter of Chabad, and brought together a diverse communi! ty there. Booker obtained a J.D. in 1997 from Yale Law School,! where he started and operated free legal clinics for low-income residents of New Haven. At Yale, he befriended Rabbi Shmully Hecht with whom he jointly founded the Chai Society - now the Eliezer Society.[8] He was also a Big Brother, and was active in the Black Law Students Association. Booker lived in Newark during his final year at Yale and following graduation served as Staff Attorney for the Urban Justice Center in New York and Program Coordinator of the Newark Youth Project. From 1998 to 2006, he 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."[9] Brick Towers has since been demolished and a new mixed-income ! development was built there in 2010.[10] Booker received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa) degree in May 2009 from Newark-based New Jersey Institute of Technology after serving almost 3 years as mayor for 'his outstanding career in public service as mayor of the City of Newark'.[11] Booker also received an honorary doctorate from Brandeis University in 2009 and was a commencement speaker that year as well.[12] That summer, Booker spoke at Jersey Boys' State and has been a guest to subsequent Boys' State functions.[13] He also received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa) degree in December 2010 from New York-based Yeshiva University for 'his bold vision for Newark and setting a national standard for urban transformation'.[14] Mayor Booker received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in June 2011 from Williams College for the urban transformation of New Jersey's largest city, Newark. He was also the 2011 Williams College Commencement speaker.! [15] On February 18, 2012, he gave an opening announcement at Whitney H! ouston's funeral. [edit] Central Ward council member In 1998, Booker won an upset victory, beating four-term incumbent George Branch to get elected to the Newark Municipal Council, a council known for serving the Central Ward Community and for hard-fought elections. Once on the Council, Booker proved to be an unconventional public official. In 1999, he went on a 10-day hunger strike, living in a tent in front of one of Newark's public housing projects (Garden Spires), to protest open-air drug dealing and the associated violence. While serving as Councilman, he spent five months living in a motor home, parking "near the most notorious drug corners" to draw attention to the situation.[16] He proposed a variety of Council initiatives that impacted housing, young people, law and order and the efficiency and transparency of City Hall, but was regularly rebuffed by a resistant Municipal Council and often outvoted 8–1. While on the Council, Booker became an outspoken advocate of! education reform. [edit] 2002 mayoral run In 2002, rather than run for re-election as Councilman, Booker decided to run for Mayor of Newark. This pitted him against longtime mayor Sharpe James. In this campaign and the next, James' supporters questioned Booker's suburban background, calling him a carpetbagger who was "not black enough" to understand the city.[17] Booker was defeated, 53 percent to 47 percent. After concluding his service as Central Ward Councilman, Booker in 2002 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 the 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. Booker is currently a member of the Board of Trustees at Teachers College, Columbia University, a! nd was formerly a member of the Executive Committee at Yale Law School ! and the Board of Trustees at Stanford University. [edit] 2006 mayoral run As expected, Cory Booker announced on February 11, 2006, that he would again run for mayor, an intention he had made clear after his loss in 2002. On March 6, 2006, Deputy Mayor (and State Senator) Ronald Rice entered the race, adding "that Mayor James had encouraged him to run but noted that if the mayor decided to join the race, his candidacy could change."[19] On March 27, 2006, James announced that he would not seek a sixth term, preferring to focus on his seat in the New Jersey Senate.[20] Rice ran a campaign attacking Booker for raising over $6 million for the race. Booker's campaign outspent Rice's 25 to 1. Booker tried to identify Rice as a "political crony" of former mayor Sharpe James, to whom Booker lost in 2002.[21][22] On Election Day, May 9, 2006, Newark's nonpartisan election took place. This time Booker won with 72 percent of the vote, soundly defeating Rice. Booker's entire slate of C! ity Council candidates, known as the "Booker Team," swept the Council elections, giving Booker firm leadership of the city's government. Before taking office as mayor, Booker sued Sharpe James' administration in order to terminate cut-rate land deals favoring two redevelopment agencies. Each organization had recently been created by the Municipal Council and listed Sharpe James as a member of its advisory board. The Municipal Council claimed that these low prices were necessary to promote development in Newark's blighted neighborhoods; however, Booker argued that the state's "pay-to-play" laws had been violated and would furthermore cost the city more than $15 million in lost revenue if these land deals were approved at the next council meeting. Specifically, Booker referenced a case on Broad and South streets – a piece of land that would generate $87,000 under the proposed land deals yet was valued at $3.7 million under current market rates.[23] On June 20, 2006,! Superior Court Judge Patricia Costello ruled in favor of Booker, stati! ng that his attorneys had "made a persuasive argument that campaign contributors were given discounted land deals."[24] In late June 2006, before Booker took office, New Jersey investigators foiled a plot, led by Bloods gang leaders inside four New Jersey state prisons, to assassinate Booker. The plot was led by New Jersey Bloods gang leader Lester Alford, an inmate in East Jersey State Prison in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The plan called for prisoners in four New Jersey state prisons to riot and then for Bloods gang members on the outside to assassinate Booker simultaneously. The threats against Booker were believed to be in response to Booker's campaign promises to increase the number of police on the streets and take a harder line on crime.[25][26][27] [edit] 2010 re-election Mayor Cory Booker defeated his opponents in a nonpartisan election on May 11, 2010. The final results were Cory A. Booker 21,397 votes; Clifford J. Minor 12,924 votes; Yvonne Garrett Moore 1,6! 29 votes; Mirna L. White 415 votes. [edit] Mayoral administration Booker campaigning for Barack Obama in Newark, 2007. Booker assumed office as mayor of Newark on July 1, 2006, and is the third consecutive black person to govern the city since 1970.[28][29][30] 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.[31][32] On October 16, 2006, Booker formally introduced his administration's first adopted Newark City Budget. The approved $697.1 million budget resulted in an 8.3% increase in the city's property tax, which is one of the largest property t
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