{"id":34347,"date":"2013-10-17T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T03:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34347"},"modified":"2013-10-18T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T00:02:00","slug":"cory-booker-wins-new-jersey-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34347","title":{"rendered":"Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/10\/16\/cory-booker-wins-new-jersey-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-16<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sean Sullivan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cory_Booker\" target=\"_blank\">Newark Mayor Cory Booker<\/a>, a rising national Democratic star, was elected to the U.S. Senate Wednesday and will become <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey&#8217;s<\/a> first ever African American senator.<\/p>\n<p>Booker defeated Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Lonegan\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Lonegan<\/a>, a former mayor of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bogota,_New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\">Bogota<\/a>. With 58 percent of the vote counted, the Associated Press called the contest for Booker, who was carrying 56 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>When Booker is sworn in, the Democratic Caucus will once again hold a 55-45 advantage over the GOP Conference. Booker will fill the seat once held by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Lautenberg\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Lautenberg<\/a>, a long-serving Democratic senator who died in June. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Christie\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Chris Christie<\/a> appointed fellow Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeffrey_Chiesa\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Chiesa<\/a> to be Lautenberg&#8217;s interim replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Booker, 44, will become the chamber&#8217;s second African American member along with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Scott\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Tim Scott<\/a> (R-S.C.)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/10\/16\/cory-booker-wins-new-jersey-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race The Washington Post 2013-10-16 Sean Sullivan Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising national Democratic star, was elected to the U.S. Senate Wednesday and will become New Jersey&#8217;s first ever African American senator. Booker defeated Republican Steve Lonegan, a former mayor of Bogota. With 58 percent of the vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[13346,5366,16160,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-34347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-cory-booker","tag-new-jersey","tag-sean-sullivan","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}