Sam Seder
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Cory Booker's Feel-Good Rhetoric Did NOTHING For Newark's Water Crisis
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September 19, 2019
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3:38Now PlayingIn this Majority Report clip, Newark has some of the highest water lead levels in the country. Cory Booker thinks teachers' unions are a bigger problem.
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"“As mayor of Newark, Cory Booker was either aware of the water quality issues and failed to act, or was completely incompetent," said Chris Martin, a spokesman for America Rising, a Republican research group.
Booker faced his own water scandal -- one that remains among the biggest black marks on his local reign -- shortly after he ascended to the U.S. Senate.
A stinging state comptroller report in 2014 found rampant abuse of public funds and no meaningful oversight at the semi-public agency tasked with treating and delivering water to North Jersey, the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation.
Indictments quickly followed."*
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