Republican Senate hopeful Geraldo Rivera on Saturday took a dig at Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker (D) for the Democrat’s famous use of Twitter.
The Fox News commentator took to the social media platform, on which Booker has developed a reputation as a prolific tweeter, to question the popular mayor’s humility:
Reading endless cascade of tweets from Newark’s Mayor Booker one wonders whether any deed however humble goes unremarked?
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) March 2, 2013
Booker’s direct engagement with constituents and supporters on Twitter has won him national attention. In the last two months, his Twitter activity has led him to rescuing a dog stranded in the cold and assisting with a marriage proposal.
Rivera, meanwhile, turned heads in late January when he said he is “truly contemplating” a run in New Jersey’s U.S. Senate race next year. The longtime television personality said subsequently that he would run as a socially moderate Republican.
But a pair of polls released last month showed Rivera in a weak starting position. One, from Monmouth University, showed 65 percent of Garden State voters indicating it is unlikely that they will back Rivera next year. A Quinnipiac University poll showed Booker, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, trouncing Rivera in a hypothetical general election matchup.
h/t The Star-Ledger
