Back Talk

Cory Booker’s campaigning

I see where Senator Booker is saying he was a big city mayor which qualifies him to be president? Well Senator Booker, please explain why millions of dollars for Newark’s education system disappeared during your time as Newark mayor? I think you should resign as a senator since you will be spending all your time to campaigning for president. And since you’ll be spending all this time campaigning you will not be able to represent New Jersey in the Senate, so I think it’s time for you to resign. — A reader

It’s funny to me to see Republicans all over NJ saying this, but none of them asked for Christie to resign when he was running for President or when he quit the race and spent almost as much time out campaigning for Trump. I do think there need to be rules about how much time is spent on campaigns though.

— Ed Note

Richardson

This is in reference to Thursdays front page Return of the King. Someone should have vetted this article and picture before they put it on the front page and embarrassed this entire kids family because the Sixers released him less than 24 hours after you ran that article and picture. Okay. Just want to let you know I feel really bad for the kid and his family cuz I’m sure they’re embarrassed by it all. — A reader

Well at the time that story and cover were sent to the presses, he was a Sixer. The team was putting out statements welcoming him to the Sixers, It seems that he fell victim of the transactional nature of playing in professional sports. If Malachi Richardson knew about it in advance, he would not have been able to tell us that. — Ed Note