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To: JohnM who wrote (229327)	8/14/2013 11:14:52 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) of 542535

On the NJ senatorial primaries yesterday. From Mike Allen, again. --------------------------------------------- --"Booker, Lonegan sail to U.S. Senate primary election victories," by Matt Friedman and David Giambusso of The (Newark) Star-Ledger : "For two months, polls showed Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker and conservative Republican activist Steve Lonegan with seemingly unbeatable leads in their party's primaries for U.S. Senate. ... The results set up a battle between the celebrity Newark mayor and the strong-willed former Bogota mayor - whose outsized personalities inspired documentary movies about them - in a special Oct. 16 general election to succeed the late Democratic U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg. ... U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone and Rush Holt performed well in their home counties, but Booker rang up huge margins of victory in Democrat-rich counties such as Hudson, Essex and Camden. ... "Booker's three opponents ... hit the mayor for his frequent travels outside of Newark, knocked him over his ties to Wall Street moguls and celebrities, and raised questions about his business dealings with an internet startup he helped found called Waywire. They also criticized him for not being liberal enough, which Holt summarized with three words in a campaign commercial: 'He's no progressive.' ... Booker paid little attention to the criticism and said his celebrity friends helped raise millions for Newark. He also raised $8.6 million - more than twice as much as any other contender." bit.ly

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