NEW JERSEY SENATE: Steve Lonegan Goes After Cory Booker On Newark Crime. Plus: “Lonegan also ripped into Booker on education and employment, saying that Newark’s high school dropout and unemployment rates were appalling. ‘We have a dropout rate . . . in one of the most expensive school districts in the United States . . . of about 70 percent, which is unconscionable,’ he said.” Yeah, but have you seen Booker’s Twitter feed?