Cory Booker and the Silicon Valley Makeover of the Democratic Party
29th November 2013
Booker, too, funneled a sizable portion of Zuckerberg’s donation to charter schools–on top of supporting limits on teacher tenure.
As mayor, instead of outlawing stop-and-frisk, the racially charged practice of searching suspects on the street without a warrant, his approach was radical transparency. Every stop must now meticulously record the race, location, and reason; that data is then opened to the public for scrutiny.
His novel approach won accolades from Newark’s American Civil Liberties Union for balancing public safety and individual rights. But, a traditional liberal would likely have just outright banned the practice.
Very interesting…. If Booker et al. can divert the Democratic Party into results-based policies rather than the Same Old Socialism, America might be in for an interesting time.