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Mayor Cory Booker: I’m Too Busy to Take a Train

You see, if you’re a big-time mayor you can make the argument that “green” train travel is too slow for you, because, you know, you’re a big-time mayor. From Mayor Booker’s Twitter feed last night:

At Nwk airport. 4:30 flight to DC to give a talk at Brookings Institute 9pm flight back to Nwk. Not what I had in mind for #LetsMove! -smile

And then a follower of the mayor’s asks why he doesn’t take the train. . .

Needed to maximize my time at home. Train would have meant I would have left earlier. RT @rebeccapbp: Why not take the train?

And now the irony hits. . .like a train:

Well I’m in airport & plane IS delayed. Ugh. I want to go home. I need some Ruby Slippers RT @AlexisPena: NEVER fly EWR-DCA. ALWAYS delayed.

I guess the Mayor forgot to check the weather and he missed the giant wave of “climate change” headed for the northeast last night that would have delayed his air travel.

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   01/13/12 17:25

So, his time at home is important and must not be missed but others' time at home is not so important and must be sacrificed to the "green" cause.

Yeah. Right.

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   01/14/12 17:01

So why is a mayors time more important than a businessman's? Mayor Booker seems to think so.

In my book it isn't. Any businessman time is far more important then any public employee's.

There is a reason why the private sector doesn't take the train Mayor, the same reason why you don't want to take the train. It takes up time we don't want to waste.

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