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Newark NJ, what started off as a seemingly well-intentioned partnership has turned into a giant embarrassment for the city of Newark. Earlier this year, Mayor Ras Baraka invited what he thought was the Hindu nation of Kailasa to Newark’s City Hall for a cultural trade agreement, but it turns out Kailasa is no nation at all; it’s a fake.
“Kailasa” is the brainchild of Swami Nithyananda, a notorious scam artist and fugitive from India who has been on the run from rape charges since 2019.
Now a political feud erupted between Newark’s Democratic mayor and a South Jersey Republican over a fake country. Republican state Senator Mike Testa, like many of us, is getting tired of the stupid BS .Testa criticized the city of Newark for being scammed into a sister city relationship with the non-existent country of Kailasa. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka fired back at the senator during his State of the City speech this week.
“The fact that they couldn’t even do a proper check to find out whether they were making a sister city agreement with a false nation,” Testa said. “He has much bigger problems than Mike Testa. And I think he should stop trying to punch way above his weight class.”
this is hysterical !
Ignorance begets ignorance.
This is what comes from woke political posturing replacing actual governing in the publics best interest.