Cory Booker May Challenge Christie In New Jersey's 2013 Gubernatorial Race

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Newark mayor Cory Booker is reportedly weighing a challenge to New Jersey governor Chris Christie when Christie runs for reelection next year. According to PolitickerNJ, some state Democratic officials see Booker as the only viable candidate to run against Christie in the gubernatorial race. Both New Jersey politicians will be getting a national platform when they speak at their party's respective conventions over the next two weeks.

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Christie will be delivering the keynote address at the Republican National Convention next week, while Booker will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention the following week 'to present the party's platform.' A source in the New Jersey Democratic party tells PolitickerNJ that following Christie's speech, they want to be able to recruit a counterpoint 'who can present more than token opposition' in the upcoming gubernatorial race.

Booker may end up being that counterpoint, because recently he has been meeting with party officials throughout the state with possible plans to run against Christie.

Booker and his political consultant Mark Matzen are meeting face-to-face with county chairs and making it known that Booker is weighing a run for governor and plans to decide by December, according to party sources.

Some Democrats see Booker as the only 2013 option against Republican Gov. Chris Christie.

By virtue of his fundraising ability, charisma and potential to transcend a fragmented state party, others see him, at the very least, as the preferred nominee.

When Christie was asked earlier this week about potentially accepting a cabinet position in Mitt Romney's cabinet, the governor dismissed the idea and said he intends to stay in New Jersey.

h/t NY Daily News

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• He'll focus on the states HUGE unemployment problem, rather than travel around the country yelling at people.

• Well he's also a hero don't ya know?

• yep
  twice

  and he'll help you shovel your snow

  swell guy

• The Dems have already ruined Booker's future by CoryBookering him, and Book regrets making the hostage tape. There's always aspiring politician/N.J. resident Carl Lewis.

  'Pedicures are' transformative': Newark Mayor Cory Booker reveals peculiar fetish for midnight nail grooming

  The rising Democrat star, 43, has revealed that he regularly sneaks out of his New Jersey home to visit a 24-hour nail salon.'

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2191047/Cory-Booker-Mayor-Newark-reveals-fetish-midnight-nail-grooming.html#ixzz24ZQ56E92

• To be fair, Christie is also traveling around the state yelling at people.

• Booker will pass on 2013, as he probably should. Christie is still popular in New Jersey, in a state notorious for hating its politicians and especially Governors. That and Booker would have to raise an enormous amount of money should give him pause.

  You can't play the crown prince forever though, so eventually he'll have to move out of the small pond of Newark.

• Not a fair race.   Christie has a double lead weight advantage.

• You will NOTICE
  That PROGRESSIVES like Booker NEVER seek solutions OUTSIDE the realm of dependence-making Socialist Engineering.
  They STILL insist that they are the 'experts' have the answers, that THEY are our 'betters', that the People cannot be TRUSTED.
  But NO ONE believes them anymore, ALL can see that we've been FOOLED, that ALL PROGRESSIVES want is chaos and crisis, to con the DEPENDENT into ceding CONTROL.

• Do YOU think that making your points in CAPITAL LETTERS somehow gives them an element of TRUTH? Because just for the RECORD, nothing you've SAID is accurate or even REMOTELY rooted in REALITY.

• For the record, gratuitious underscores in nicknames also accomplish nothing.  Well, almost nothing in your case.  It is a fail, after all. 

• Wont happen if Romney wins in November Christie will be off to Washington to join Romneys cabinet as Secretary of Bad Health & InHumane Services

• 'What businesspeople see is a blizzard of question marks,' said Patrick O'Keefe, director of economic research at J.H. Cohn in Roseland. 'Where they can defer decisions, they are. Where they can't, they are minimizing their commitment.'O'Keefe said New Jersey may have a higher jobless rate than its neighbors because of higher labor and regulatory costs, as well as the state's relatively generous safety net.  

  Oopsie'   There's your reasons for the burgeoning unemployment numbers in NJ.

• Who are you and what have you done with BillBuckley??

• Ooopsie what?

  If that's the case, what cant Governor Loudmouth do what Walker did?