Newark's Living Mayors: Cory Booker

Newark Today

Programming Note: Cory Booker will join us this Friday, February 3rd at 8pm as Newark Today Presents "The Four Living Mayors". He will be joined by fellow former mayors Ken Gibson, Sharpe James and current mayor Ras Baraka for what will be a historic night. Cory Booker was elected as Newark’s mayor in 2006. Booker, a one-time all Pac-10 football tight end at Stanford University, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship from the University of Oxford before earning his J.D. from Yale Law School. His career in politics started almost immediately after his time at Yale, winning a seat on Newark’s city council. He lost a heated contest for mayor against Sharpe James in 2002, but when James decided not to run again, the people came out in numbers to support Cory Booker. “We don’t want this to be a faction taking over city hall. We want this to be the community reclaiming city hall for itself and for the values that are most central to Newarkers. We’re trying to create, and I said this in my staff