Why did ChaCha have a friend?

Mayor Booker is the man. He understands his city, no different than he will understand his State as a Senator. 

Cory puts himself in the way of disaster as a demonstration to the communities in Newark as to what Civil Responsibility sincerely looks like. He personalizes the human experience in Newark after so many, many years of dehumanizing government. He is remarkable. A breath of fresh air to the city.''

Mayor Booker didn't win in his first run for Mayor of Newark, but, he persisted for the next four years and won the people's trust by 2006. He invested in his mayorship. He wanted it bad enough and it is that investment we witness now in the dedication he has.

Newark had a very corrupt government before Mayor Booker. He won't speak to it because he holds pride for his city and he would never cause his citizens more distress over their reality. He seeks to lift them up, if you will. He shows people, not just that he cares, but also how to care. He is great guy. A 24 - 7 mayor and ChaCha was a very lucky dog.

Jan 25, 2013 11:12am

...“If you’d crank up that heat, I’d appreciate it,” he told the police officer. (click here for video - thank you)

Booker, 43, called the dog’s owner and told them it was unacceptable to leave the dog outside in the freezing weather, WABC reported.

The owners said they were in Queens, N.Y., and did not know that Cha Cha had gotten outside. They said it was an accident and thanked the mayor for saving the dog, a new mother.

Booker, who’s exploring a run for U.S. Senate,  later tweeted the reporter, “Because of you that dog was rescued. Thank you for reaching out. Thank u for your kindness.”

This is not the first time Mayor Booker has come to the rescue.

Booker returned home one evening in April to find flames shooting out of his neighbor’s home. A woman screamed that her daughter was still inside....

Mayor Booker needs to begin to address his ambitions, Senator Lautenberg already is. This picture of Senator Lautenberg is from 2009; has he been back since then? The rule is cities do better when they receive the federal help they need. 

By Brent Johnson/The Star-Ledger 
January 24, 2013 at 7:50 PM, updated January 25, 2013 at 8:46 AM

TRENTON — Another day, another Frank Lautenberg quip about Cory Booker. (click here)

Lautenberg, New Jersey’s veteran U.S. senator, today criticized Booker for his performance as Newark mayor, according to a post on NationalJournal.com.

“He’s got a lot of work to do — a lot of work that should have been done and hasn’t been done,” the state’s senior senator reportedly said of Booker, a fellow Democrat who has announced he may run for Lautenberg’s seat in Congress in 2014.Lautenberg called Newark a “city in desperate need of attention,” according to the report....