Cory Booker's Constituents - He reflects how we make our money

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10. I moved to Joisey many moons ago to work for a small tech co...

and the place was not at all what I expected. AT&T, ITT, Bell Labs, Bellcore, RCA Labs, the enormous general aviation industry at Morristown and Teterboro airports...

And then there's Mars' headquarters and candy factory, Sony US HQ, Mercedes US HQ, and a whole bunch of others... Drug companies were rapidly moving international HQs and research labs to NJ.

Exxon and a bunch of others moved to snow-free Texas, AT&T is a bare shadow of what it once was, other electronic research operations have taken off or downsized, and who knows how many tiny companies (like ours) disappeared in the changes, but it's still big money over there and it is not a one-industry state.

And although the state was the most congested polluted in the country, it had places of incomparable raw beauty.

I remember Booker starting out in Newark when Newark was one of the crookedest cities in the country, if not the planet. Everyone knew he had to make deals to avoid getting shot, much less winning elections, but there was something about him that excited you. At least as much as you could be excited about Newark politics. If he could rise in that atmosphere with out auctioning his soul, he was one serious badass.

So, clueless wankers demanding Booker swear to a purity contract should really stop making fools of themselves.