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Newark has improved significantly over the last decade. Not sure how much of that was the natural wave of gentrification vs. Baraka's policies. The crime stats bare it out, but also ss someone who frequents NJ PAC, Prudential Center, and Red Bull Arena (so spend a good amount of time in the Ironbound), I can see it with my own eyes. I'm sure the most blighted parts of the city are still not good though.
That is embarrasing, I know about that. But anything else otherwise to say that he's a bad mayor?
Some of the items he's looking to bring to Trenton.
"During an hour-long event at Rowan University Tuesday night, Baraka hinted at what his gubernatorial agenda for New Jersey would look like: Affordable housing, reparations, baby bonds, desegregating schools and increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy"
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