On Jul 10, 11:45*pm, "David R.Birch" wrote:

[a bunch of words showing off that David isn't from New Jersey. If he
was, he would know better.]

I didn't hear Hizzonor da Mayor make that distinction.

Before you go on insulting Mr. Booker, you may want to check his
biography (excerpted below).

As far as politician's body guards being arrested? If they are
properly licensed, they won't be. If they aren't properly licensed,
they should be. Simple as that. And no, Snag and SteveB would NOT be
likely to be licensed to wear their guns, open or concealed, in NJ.
And that, as far as I'm concerned, is a good thing.

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The son of civil rights activists, Cary and Carolyn Booker, who were
among the first African-American executives at IBM, Booker was born in
Washington, D.C. and grew up in the predominantly white, affluent town
of Harrington Park in Bergen County, New Jersey. Booker traveled west
to study at Stanford University, where he earned a B.A. in political
science in 1991 and an M.A. in sociology the following year. He played
varsity football — he made the All-Pacific Ten Academic team; — and
was elected to the council of (four) presidents. While he was there,
he ran The Bridge, a student-run crisis hotline and organized help for
youth in East Palo Alto from Stanford students.

He won a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at The Queen's College,
Oxford, where he was awarded an honors degree in modern history in
1994. At Oxford, he became friends with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. He
became the President of the L'Chaim Society, a Jewish group founded by
Boteach, to signify his commitment to end tensions between Jews and
African Americans.

After Oxford, he obtained a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1997 and,
while there, started and operated free legal clinics for low-income
residents of New Haven. He was also a Big Brother, and was active in
the Black Law Students Association. After law school, Booker returned
to New Jersey. He served as Staff Attorney for the Urban Justice
Center in New York and Program Coordinator of the Newark Youth
Project.

Since 1998, he has lived in Brick Towers, a notorious public housing
project in Newark's Central Ward. Booker organized tenants there to
fight for improved conditions. In November 2006, Booker left his
apartment for the top unit in a three-story rental on Hawthorne Avenue
on Newark's south side, an area described as "a drug- and gang-plagued
neighborhood of boarded-up houses and empty lots."

Booker is a churchgoing Baptist who professes an interest in Buddhism
and says that he meditates once or twice a day.