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are there any good mayors? - 4/13/2012 4:40:50 PM

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do you like your mayor?

the mayor of my city is a horrible fascist bootlicker. who are some mayors you know of and admire?

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RE: are there any good mayors? - 4/13/2012 5:02:11 PM

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Well, Corey Booker comes to mind.

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RE: are there any good mayors? - 4/13/2012 5:49:18 PM

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On September 23, 2009, on The Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien made the following joke: "The mayor of Newark wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark."

Booker responded in a satire YouTube video telling Conan O'Brien to apologize, and that Conan is banned from ever entering Newark Liberty International Airport by putting him on the "No fly list."

Conan responded by further making fun of Newark saying the only way he could get to Newark now would be like everyone else, "through a series of poor decisions." He also called out Cory Booker to come on the show to air out their grievances.

Booker subsequently banned Conan from the state of New Jersey as well as all the sister cities of Newark on another satire video.

In response, Conan read a letter on air from Elizabeth, NJ, Mayor Chris Bollwage, declaring that he will temporarily rename Terminal A of Newark Liberty (which lies in Elizabeth) the Conan O'Brien Terminal. Conan did a skit in which he complimented all the cities around Newark and said he had created a "geographic toilet seat" around Newark.

The mayors of Bayonne, East Orange, Kearny, Jersey City, and Elizabeth have publicly sided with Conan O'Brien. He ended this by saying, "Your move, Mayor Booker."

The feud was unofficially ended when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for it to end during a prepared comedy bit, telling Booker to chalk it up to Conan's head injury suffered less than two weeks earlier.[55]

Mayor Cory Booker appeared as Conan's first guest on The Tonight Show on Friday October 16, 2009, and assured viewers that the feud was over and that he was actually a big fan of Conan O'Brien. They settled their feud with a deal that every time Conan made a joke about Newark, Conan would put $500 in the Newark jar, and the money would be donated to the City of Newark.

Conan then made the following joke, "You can trust that this jar is safe because it is not in Newark," after which Conan placed the first $500 in the jar. Conan then made a $50,000 donation to the Newark Now charity, which was matched by NBC Universal, totaling $100,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker

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RE: are there any good mayors? - 4/13/2012 6:45:52 PM

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Isn't there one that just saved seven people from a fire? I admire him.

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RE: are there any good mayors? - 4/13/2012 6:57:12 PM

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

Isn't there one that just saved seven people from a fire? I admire him.

That's Corey Booker.

The guy's story sounds like it was scripted for Hollywood. From Wiki. Not surprisingly, Obama offered him a national post, which Booker turned down, saying he wanted to stay in Newark.

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RE: are there any good mayors? - 4/13/2012 9:34:06 PM

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He`ll be kicking Chris Christy`s ass in two years......if Christy runs that is.

Booker was a decent guy before the heroics.About a 1000 times better than the crook he replaced.

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RE: are there any good mayors? - 4/14/2012 12:17:04 PM

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i always had a thing for mayor mccheese.

sadly, i was stoned on our first date, and when i woke up there was nothing left but his little hat

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RE: are there any good mayors? - 4/14/2012 1:54:51 PM

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Amusingly, the elected mayor of the city of Stoke On Trent was removed from office and the role done away with when it emerged that he was nothing more than a tame mouthpiece for the autocratic (and of course, unelected) twonk who was the head of the city council at the time.

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