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Booker won't spend public funds on toilet paper for city employees

2:37 PM on 07/23/2010

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Cory Booker (AP Photo/Mike Derer)

Watch out, Mr. Whipple, the mayor of Newark is putting the squeeze on toilet paper.

Mayor Cory Booker threatened to stop spending city funds on toilet paper as one of a string of "savage" measures to close a $70 million budget gap.

"We're going to stop buying everything from toilet paper to printer paper," Booker said during a City Hall news conference in Newark Wednesday.

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