Mayor for President
This recent article got me thinking:
“Cory Booker: Bringing Newark Back” (Fortune Magazine / CNN.com)
Not about how I want Booker to be President, but rather about who typically becomes President of the United States. In recent times, there was the ill-fated bid for the seat from Rudy Giuliani … In history I believe that we only have Grover Cleveland (Buffalo, NY from 1881 – 1883), Andrew Johnson (Greeneville, Tennessee from 1830 – 1833) and Calvin Coolidge (Northampton, Massachusetts from 1910 – 1911). According to this history buff from one of those Q&A websites, none were mayor just before being elected President of the United States.
What would happen then if a mayor from a major US city were elected president? And yes Newark is major-enough, but then again this really isn’t about Booker. Who says that Senators and Governors make better Presidents of an urban nation? What if someone who understands cities was elected as the leader of the “free-world,” which is now the “free-world of cities”?
PS – Let’s NOT elect someone like Mayor Quimby from The Simpsons!!!
