Raise your hands if you saw this one coming. (Okay… all of you without your hands raised are either amputees or are reading the wrong web site.) At a news conference in New Jersey this morning, the Mayor of Newark announced that he’s really, truly, officially, not at all kidding this time, running for higher office. Cory Booker will run in the special election to fill the seat of the recently deceased Frank Lautenburgh.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker officially announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate at a news conference in New Jersey on Saturday.

Booker, 44, will run to fill the seat vacated by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died on Monday of viral pneumonia.

“Democracy is not a spectator sport,” Booker said at the event. “Now as much as at any time we must bring people together, we must get actually into the complicated, difficult, messy arena and take on the difficult challenges.”

Booker’s naked political ambitions have never been a secret, nor his attraction to anyplace with a camera. Those personality traits are no doubt part of what originally propelled him to the executive chair in the city which Howard Stern once called the Carjacking Capital of the World. People in New York are fond of saying that the most dangerous place in the world is the spot between Chuck Schumer and a camera, but Booker will likely give him a run for his money.

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