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CANDID CAMERAS.(Cory Booker, Sharpe James)
Like rival gladiators whose pride won't let them ignore a taunt, two Newark pols are about to go at it again. Just a couple of weeks ago, Cory Booker, a thirty-six-year-old lawyer and former city councilman, kicked off his second campaign for mayor of Newark. The current mayor, Sharpe James, who is seventy and has held the office since 1986, hasn't yet announced whether he will run again, though, having accumulated a campaign chest of two million dollars, James is unlikely to retire from the scene with a polite thank-you note to his backers. If he does run, the race will reunite the men in a sequel to their acrimonious 2002 battle, a campaign that has been captured in the ...
- Cory Booker, standard bearer of the new politics.(Opinion)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 16, 2002 700+ words
...result was clear: Cory Booker had already won...term incumbent Sharpe James after a bitter campaign...the phenomenon of Cory Booker. He has proved that...said to me, "Sharpe James said that Cory Booker's not black enough...
- Newark's new choice.(Cory Booker)(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Reason Weigel, David August 1, 2006 700+ words
Sometimes there's an upside to losing an election. In 2002 Cory Booker, then 33 years old, narrowly lost the race for mayor of Newark, New Jersey, to Sharpe James, an entrenched incumbent who accused him of being a Republican puppet...
- The battle of Newark: the battle for America's soul isn't in Baghdad,. It's...
- Magazine article from: Esquire Raab, Scott July 1, 2008 700+ words
...you know what? Cory Booker's no regular...despot named Sharpe James, who bled the...vote in 2006--Sharpe James knew what was...negritude. To Cory Booker, this is possible...McGreevey, a Sharpe James ally--"offered...
- James reelected Mayor of Newark.(Sharpe James )(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Nation's Cities Weekly May 20, 2002 700+ words
...national spotlight, Newark Mayor Sharpe James won a fifth term to lead New Jersey...defeated freshman councilman Cory Booker, 53 percent to 46 percent. Turnout...This election was not about Sharpe James. It's about the future of Newark...
- Cory Booker Wins; Megalopolis Has New Superstar.(Politics)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) May 15, 2006 700+ words
...that one of affluent New York's favorite politicians, Cory Booker, overwhelmingly won the city's Mayoral election last night...over the second-poorest city in the country next month. Sharpe James will depart after choosing to end his 20-year reign...
- Newark Mayor Sharpe James wins election for fifth term. (Politics).(Newark, New...
- Magazine article from: Jet June 3, 2002 700+ words
Newark, NJ, Mayor Sharpe James recently won an unprecedented fifth term as leader of the skate...old mayor defeated 33-year-old freshman city councilman Cory Booker, who is also Black. With 99 percent of precincts reporting...
- Newark, NJ, Mayor Sharpe James pulls out race for sixth term.(NATIONAL...
- Magazine article from: Jet April 17, 2006 700+ words
Newark, NJ, Mayor Sharpe James recently announced that he would not seek a sixth term in leading...James has never lost an election. His surprise withdrawal makes Cory Booker, 36, the clear front-runner, political analysts said. Booker...
- Booker elected mayor of Newark.(Cory Booker)(Brief article)
- Newspaper article from: Nation's Cities Weekly May 15, 2006 700+ words
Cory Booker, a 37-year-old former Rhodes scholar, won election as Newark...July 1. Booker, a former city councilman, had lost to current Mayor Sharpe James, a former NLC president, in 2002, falling 3,500 votes short out...