Now That's What I Call A Public Servant

Via Crooks and Liars and Intoxination, a little story about the new mayor of Newark, New Jersey:

As the snow piled up on New Year’s Eve, Jersey resident Ravie Rave didn’t call a snow plow service to take care of her 65-year-old father’s walk — she tweeted at Newark Mayor Cory Booker.

Booker, who has more than a million Twitter followers, is a regular man-about-town when it comes to the microblogging service (remember that whole thing with Conan?), but this level of responsiveness is extreme, even for the sometimes to-good-to-be-true politician.

Booker, elected in 2008 to run one of the most economically-devastated cities in the nation, didn't make excuses about city services, didn't pass it to an underling, didn't blow it off.

He showed up before noon with shovels and salt and did it himself.

Read the whole Twitter exchange here.