"Son of activist to succeed Booker as Newark mayor
NEWARK, N.J. — Ras Baraka, son of late militant poet and activist Amiri Baraka, declared victory Tuesday in the race to succeed Democratic Senator Cory Booker as mayor of the state’s largest city.
Baraka, who served on Newark’s City Council, was a staunch critic of Booker, who stepped down last year to run for the Senate. Baraka declared victory with nearly all districts counted and with a 54 percent to 46 percent lead over former state assistant attorney general Shavar Jeffries.
Baraka, whose father extended the political debates of the civil rights era to the arts world, inherits a fiscal crisis that has left Newark in danger of being subject to state monitoring.
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Who Booker?
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Doesn't shoot down his star though.
