Newark Mayor Booker Defends Bloomberg
USA Today reports:
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is getting some political cover from a fellow city chief across the Hudson River.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker posted on Twitter that "people are far 2 rough" on Bloomberg. He says his New Jersey city is "still fighting 2 clear snow" and notes Newark is 1/29th the size of the Big Apple.
A post-Christmas Day storm dumped 2 1/2 feet of snow in the New York region.
If you think mixing religion and politics is bad, think twice about mixing snow and politics. Bloomberg, an independent, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican on vacation at Disney World, are getting grief about their responses to Sunday's storm.
As former Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry once said, snow removal is "a high-stake poker game" because emotions run high when mounds of snow and ice leave people helpless. He should know: In 1987, Barry was at the Super Bowl in California while the District of Columbia grappled for five days with a snowstorm.
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