Following up on my earlier post about Street Fight, I’ve found some more information taking a stance on the other side of the Booker/James debate. While some of the rhetoric doesn’t appeal to me, in fact turns me off to their point, I offer the links up here as something to take a look at.

The bottom line for these commentators is that Booker has appeared at the Manhattan Institute, a very conservative think tank. Booker also supports vouchers which has raised the ire of the NJ Education Association among others. Some claim that his plan doesn’t encourage privatization, but you should read the articles and see what you think. I’m not sure I’ve put together enough information about this to get a clear picture (I sure don’t have one yet).

I still stand by my original point which is that even if the politics of a candidate don’t really line up with yours, you should vote for him if the candidate you might otherwise vote for shows the kind of disdain Bush or Sharpe James shows for our system of democracy and equality. It would be unfortunate if Booker implemented a damaging voucher system but in a few years, you can vote him out and undo the damage. Undoing the damage to our political discourse and process is far tougher to fix and thus is the far greater problem.

Thanks to Jersey Perspective for the pointers.