cory booker runs for mayor

If you live in Newark, New Jersey, I have two messages for you. First, I’m very sorry. Second, go to the polls today and vote for my old college teaching assistant, Cory Booker, who’s running for mayor at the tender age of 33.
Cory was my TA for a polisci class I took in college. I don’t pretend to know about Newark politics, but even in the ego-ridden environment of my alma mater, it was clear that Cory was a couple steps ahead of everybody else. (All-American football player and class president at Stanford, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Yale law graduate.) As one might expect in a city dominated by paleolithic machine politics, things have gotten a little messy, with Booker’s incumbent opponent even saying he gets funding from the KKK. (Both Booker and the incumbent are black, but Booker is evidently not quite black enough for the mayor’s tastes.) Go Cory!