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Now Newark Mayor Cory Booker Has Saved a Dog From Freezing to Death

Jan. 25, 2013 6:24pm Jason Howerton

First he rescued a woman from a burning building, then he gave people shelter, food and blankets in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy; and now Newark Mayor Cory Booker has rescued a stranded dog from freezing to death.

A reporter and camera crew noticed the dog sitting out in the cold while they were out working on a story. They noticed hours later that the dog was still there. That’s when the reporter took to Twitter to alert the mayor, who is extremely active on the social network.

“Make pet owners get their dogs out of the cold,” WABC-TV reporter Toni Yates tweeted. She later asked Booker to “do something, call someone.”

And he did.

Shortly after the messages were posted, Booker showed up at the scene, took the pooch in his arms and personally rescued the dog.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Has Saved a Dog From Freezing to Death

(ImageCredit: WABC/ABC News)

“This is brutal weather. This dog is shaking really bad and you just can’t leave your dogs out here on a day like this and go away and expect them to be OK,” the mayor told WABC. “Hypothermia on any animal including a human animal will set in pretty quickly. So this is very sad. You can just feel the dog shaking pretty badly.”

Booker then called the dog’s owners and told them it was unacceptable to leave the dog outside in freezing weather. As it turns out, the owners were away in Queens, N.Y. and apparently didn’t know their dog had gotten outside. They thanked the mayor for saving their dog.

In April, Booker and his security detail went into a burning house to rescue a stranded woman. Booker carried the woman out of the house on his shoulder.

Booker also showed up to the scene of a car accident in June to assist.

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SolitudeBliss
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:50pm
I guess one unlisted qualification to be President is to be a bad actor !!!
This badly choreographed scene (let’s not forget all his other heroic deeds ! Has anyone made him a cape yet?)
Hillary’s choking up, getting angry, getting indignant emotional rolly polly the other day (“what difference does it make anyway?” I’ll tell you what difference it makes, an American Ambassador was assasinated it and the family and the American people deserve answers, does that make a difference to you?)

However, considering all the indoctrination and excellence of our fine Education system I have no doubt the american populace will achieve the IQ necessary to vote for their caped heroes (see the Main Stream Media for proper propaganda video).

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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 3:50pm
  Remember “Wag the Dog”?
  This used a real dog.
  The democrats stage everything now.
  
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Hcall
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:40pm
please tell me people are not naive enough to buy in….say it aint so

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- rickfromthecape
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:17pm
  Hook, line, and sinker my friend. Hook, line, and sinker.
  
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- Displacedsoutherner
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:23pm
  Amazing all the photo ops that pop up when you have a camera crew following you around. When is he going to lift a car off a pedestrian lying in the street? It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s BLACK MAN!!
  
  At least the dog benefited from Booker’s publicity shenanigans.
  
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- bcrogan
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 3:54am
  He is may of NEWARK, of courser they are that naive to buy into this nonsense. When your mayor of a hell hole dump like Newark, you really have to lose all sense of shame to make a name for yourself. I mean, you can’t rely on those pesky things like job creation, crime reduction, parks and public development, corruption and waste prosecutions or anything like that. His last PR stunt was gong on food stamps for a month, now he’s rescuing dogs?! LOL. What next, stage a mass shooting where he happens to be the guy in tactical gear to kill all the bad guy?! LoL. What a douche.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:16am
  They elected Obama Hcall. Enough said?
  
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bitterclinger
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:32pm
This guy is being groomed to be Obama’s successor. Word is he’s even slimier than Ear Leader. Keep your eye on him.

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CatherineAnn
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:26pm
Funny it is an older puppy not an adult dog. Not that much risk. So yes it looks staged to me. I want to see him walk up to a pit bull and carry that strange dog off. Not happening.

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- USATrucker
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:39pm
  He could walk up to any of my pits and be perfectly safe. Punish the deed, not the breed.
  
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- USATrucker
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:41pm
  He could walk up to any of my pits and be perfectly safe. A$$hat.
  
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- skunkbear
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:46pm
  Yeah CatherineAnn, because pit bull dogs are dangerous by nature. Ignorance has a name and it is yours.
  
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hempstead1944
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:10pm
Better than the government has done for the victims of Super Storm Sandy….

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- Godfather.1
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:33pm
  But I thought government isn’t supposed to help people. It’s only supposed to secure the borders and deliver the mail.
  
  If you help people when a hurricane rips their house apart, all you do is encourage irresponsible behavior, i.e., living somewhere where a hurricane may strike once in a hundred years.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:22am
  1
  Do you have that foam hand on with the #1? A t-shirt the goombahs got you with #1 on it? How much was the bill for Sandy aid #1 and what section of the populace was it squeezed out of? Do you operate a cash only “refuse” service or just good old country fare from Sicily? Who was on the panel of goombas that voted you #1, and what did you do to the runner up? Did you take his whole fambly out to sleep with the fishes?
  
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OhSnappage
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:00pm
Really good PR to educate idiots leaving animals outdoors unattended in this harsh weather.

As for the legitimacy of the scenario… It all comes off as really staged. The only capable person thruout the city is the flipping Mayor? No one else is capable of doing something right? Has society dumbed down & become so dependent relying on a seemingly hands on mayor to guide by example? Must be a sheeple invested area.

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Magyar
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:33pm
Conveniently staged!

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term limits for congress
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:29pm
Uh oh. Now Chris Crispie will be used as a flotation device to save Zuckerberg’s wife. tit-for-tat, ya know.

The next governor’s race will be comic book material.

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- rickfromthecape
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:20pm
  man-tit for tat you mean.
  
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woodyee
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:27pm
@ JASON HOWERTON –

Dig deeper, young man. this fish stinks really bad…

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- Fubared
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:57pm
  Speaking of stink, if he were a true acolyte, he would use a good jerk rub and offer it up to 0 on a stick.
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:23pm
Healthy looking dog to be homeless and freezing. Glad photographers were there to capture the moment.

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- Kupo
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:05pm
  Learn to read. The dog was not homeless. It was locked in the backyard while the owners were away.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:20pm
Message to the dog owner. Get your dog spayed before she drops another litter, that will end up in the cold streets, dog pound, or flattened in the road.

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woodyee
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:16pm
So the reporters ‘just’ happened to be there with photographers. He ‘just happened’ to be available when the REPORTERS called, and HE came to the rescue…

the reporters were SOOO concerned about the dog that, rather than put it in their news van and calling the owner, they called the Mayor, who HAPPENED to have a little free time of his busy schedule to drive down and rescue the dog, before it froze to death in front of the ‘concerned’ reporters.

I SMELL DOG POO…

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The-Monk
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:16pm
I don’t get it……

He’s for Human abortion yet saves dogs????

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:10pm
  No dog has ever sued him for child support.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:15pm
Staged heroism.

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- Magyar
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:33pm
  Correct you are!
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:44pm
  For the fawning media its more like stooged heroism.
  
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TSUNAMI_22
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:09pm
Always a convenient cameraman nearby.

Fraud!

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Rock_Moninoff
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:07pm
Nice gesture, Booker, you should run for president. Now go save your city from the ravages of H. Sandy. There are people, and probably other dogs still freezing because they have no power and no heat.

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ares338
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:04pm
Probably had the dog stored in a commercial freezer for 24 hours then had it planted on the streets. Then he calls the media and said…Hey bring the cameras I’m going to do something very nice.

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whatthecrazy
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:59pm
Im happy for the dog but i always worry for the animals during hot and cold seasons.Come on people treat your pets like the best friends that they are.

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chips1
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:49pm
He just stole Obama’s lunch!!!!

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whatthecrazy
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:49pm
Im happy for the dog.I always think of poor animals during cold and hot seasons because i know that there are always those that have no compassion for people much less animals .

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woodyee
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:45pm
Oh? He saved a dog? Nice.

How’s that racist fascist going to save his campaign?

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:50pm
  This is the start of his campaign since Zuckerberg is supporting his competition!
  
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Excomunicatedmarine
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:41pm
Now if we can get that movie star to get his humans out of the cold we got a winner.

Oh that’s right, at a Prog Frog humans are at the bottom of the list. Anybody seen an abortion clinic for dogs funded by taxpayer money…….do I dare post it ? hate to give them another paycheck.

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barber2
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:35pm
The Democrats know how to use the media ! And the media knows how to help the media. Glad for the dog though.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:39pm
  Ain’t that the truth. Got in touch with the owner by calling his cell phone…..hmmmmm?
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:45pm
  The media of lib’s is disgusting. Who the he ll thank’s God for abortion’s. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/01/25/MSNBCs-Toure-Thanks-God-For-Abortion-That-Has-Made-America-A-Stonger-Nation?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BreitbartFeed+%28Breitbart+Feed%29
  
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:34pm
Booker, please stay away from my neighborhood, trouble follows you everywhere. Maybe Booker could team up with Putin, Captain Commie and General Jersey, dynamic duo.

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- oneshiner
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:42pm
  Thank God you helped save that dog. You might do some stupid things, but I appreciate knowing that dog will get a warm bed. Now, you need to publish that all who know of dogs left out in the bitter cold should call you so you can come rescue them. Some un-feeling or un-caring people own animals and don’t give them the attention they need. Those people should be left out in the bitter cold overnight.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:46pm
  Secondly, if that dog got out without the knowing, and didn’t go back home, it’s probably because the poor dog has been abused and wanted to get out of there. Thank you again Mayor for your kindness toward animals.
  
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- Melika
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:00pm
  Oneshiner: Please tell me those two comments you just made were a pathetic attempt at sarcastic humor.
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:05pm
  MELIKA, darn, you got me. I really tried to soften it up a bit to sound nicer………….but, I am very serious about people who leave their poor animals out on bitter cold nights and would love to see them sit out on a chain all night with nothing to keep them warm.
  
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Larry E
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:31pm
Ah, good to see true collectivists working as “journalists”. It’d seem that if they were so concerned about the health of the dog that they’d have done something to help it instead of calling someone else. Useless jerks.

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- barber2
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 6:47pm
  Of course. When you see something wrong in your neighborhood, don’t you call your mayor ? Seems the Media Beast needs to be fed just like the Political Beast does ! Symbiotic relationship today.
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:47pm
  Yes, of course, I call my Mayor about things he should look into. (course he’s a friend)
  
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