A conservative political action committee is taking a swing at Dem Senate candidate Cory Booker’s education record in an ad asserting that Mark Zuckerberg’s $ 100 million pledge to Newark schools went not into classrooms but to consultants and focus groups.
The American Commitment Action Fund super PAC spent $ 130,000 to air a TV ad, called “A Record of Failure,” on behalf of New Jersey tea party US Senate candidate Steve Lonegan.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Oprah Winfrey and Cory Booker stand with Mark Zuckerberg, who pledged $ 100 million to Newark schools in 2010.
“Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gave $ 100 million. Mayor Cory Booker said he’d use it to fix Newark’s failing schools. Did he?” the ad narrator says.
“No. A top Booker staffer admitted none went to classrooms. But millions did go to consultants, pollsters and focus groups. Meanwhile, Newark’s schools are still failing.”
The 30-second anti-Booker ad counters a $ 1 million ad buy funded by Mayor Bloomberg’s Super PAC that, among other assertions, touts how Booker brought in the private sector to improve Newark’s schools.
“We’ve always believed Steve would win,” said American Commitment Action Fund president Phil Kerpen.
“It just took a while to expose all of Cory Booker’s failure, corruption, and divisiveness.”
Booker was crushing Lonegan, the mayor of Bogata, NJ, by 25 points in August, according to a Quinnipiac poll. But a Monmouth University poll this month has Lonegan trailing Booker by 13.
Booker’s camp didn’t respond to calls for comment from The Post.
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