DON'T BOOK 'IM, DANO:

Jay Caruso at The Daily Rant posted an e-mail from a NJ Democratic operative that explains why Cory Booker wasn't even considered for the Torch's Senate slot:

Booker like Bradley is considered somewhat of a party maverick. They often times go their own way, making their own choices, and not backing down or giving in to the ills grown from partisan politics. Their intellectual and wonkish nature forces them to serve the people they represent and not the party to which they belong. They are both often accused of not being partisan enough; supporting ideas or pieces of legislation that are not on the democratic parties talking points memos.

There's more and it's all pretty devastating, suggesting, as it does, that Mr. Booker is too uppity for the Democratic Machine. And so, again, we ask: Why do black leaders allow the Democrats to treat them this way? Are "civil rights" activists really more interested in the number of black coaches in the NFL than in having just one black United States Senator?

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 4, 2002 1:03 PM