The Cory Booker Report

That would be a good name for a blog, and perhaps there is one with that name already. This guy is undergoing more and more scrutiny because of his longstanding ties with right-wing foundations. As noted by Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford in his recent speech about privatization of public education, Booker was the ideal person to infiltrate the black community to push policies that actually are not in the best interests of that community.

Here is another commentary about Booker:

On the first weekend in May, Newark mayor Corey Booker appeared alongside Fox News host Juan Williams and ultra-conservative Republican governors Chris Christie of New Jersey and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana to sing the praises of charters and school privatization, and the evils of organized teacher and parent power at the annual conference of the Alliance for School Choice.. It's not a big step for Corey Booker, it's the place he's been all along, since his first late 1990s gig as a founding board member of the Bradley Foundation's Black Alliance for Educational Options. What's new is that in 2012 black Democrats with national profiles like Booker can appear in public spouting pro-corporate right wing dogma alongside such creatures, and hardly anyone notices. What has happened to Democratic party politics, to black politics?

To hear mainstream pundits like Andra Gillespie tell it, black politics and the black politician have been re-invented. The poster boys for this new generation of elected black Democrats are people like Newark's Corey Booker, former DC mayor Adrian Fenty, and of course, President Barack Obama. Re-invention, the story goes, is a good thing because the re-inventors are “technocrats,” whatever that means, with access to funding, elite connections and crossover appeal that their predecessors lacked, all of which enabled them to get things done which previous generations of black politicians could not or would not.

What a great publication. BAR cuts through all of the b.s.

This is an earlier piece by Glen Ford exposing Booker for what he REALLY is. It makes me wonder what connections Obama has with these same foundations, if any.