Cory Booker's Feel-Good Rhetoric Did NOTHING For Newark's Water Crisis

In this Majority Report clip, Newark has some of the highest water lead levels in the country. Cory Booker thinks teachers' unions are a bigger problem.

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"“As mayor of Newark, Cory Booker was either aware of the water quality issues and failed to act, or was completely incompetent," said Chris Martin, a spokesman for America Rising, a Republican research group.

Booker faced his own water scandal -- one that remains among the biggest black marks on his local reign -- shortly after he ascended to the U.S. Senate.

A stinging state comptroller report in 2014 found rampant abuse of public funds and no meaningful oversight at the semi-public agency tasked with treating and delivering water to North Jersey, the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation.

Indictments quickly followed."*

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