{"id":38027,"date":"2013-08-29T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38027"},"modified":"2013-08-28T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T18:15:17","slug":"booker-is-the-new-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38027","title":{"rendered":"Booker Is The New Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Lonegan, the GOP hopeful running for the New Jersey Senate seat against Newark mayor Corey Booker, mentions the civic issues that dare not speak their names:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They had another murder in the streets of Newark yesterday; a 20-year-old girl shot to death in the streets of Newark. There was another shooting not far from there,&#8221; Lonegan told &#8220;The Steve Malzberg Show&#8221; on Newsmax TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That puts them at close to 50 deaths this year in the city of Newark. I mean it&#8217;s like becoming the murder capital of New Jersey. Violent crime is actually up now since Sharpe James was mayor \u2013 up above last year of the James administration.&#8221;&#8230;Lonegan also ripped into Booker on education and employment, saying that Newark\u2019s high school dropout and unemployment rates were appalling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that Newark has ever been Atlantis, but if crime and dropout rates are both rising since the &#8220;third way&#8221; mayor and, in some circles, the political Son of The Light Worker took office, that&#8217;ll call for drastic measures.<\/p>\n<p>Like the media blacking out all evidence that maybe Booker isn&#8217;t the next coming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just like they did for Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Lonegan, the GOP hopeful running for the New Jersey Senate seat against Newark mayor Corey Booker, mentions the civic issues that dare not speak their names: &#8220;They had another murder in the streets of Newark yesterday; a 20-year-old girl shot to death in the streets of Newark. There was another shooting not far from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,187,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-campaign-16","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38029,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38027\/revisions\/38029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}