Mayor Cory Booker’s Birthday Wish.

Cory Booker, the vegetarian Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, released a video on his YouTube asking for help to make his birthday wish come true.

Booker’s wish is for Newark to build America’s best animal shelter. He wants the facility to be an example to cities across the country and around the world.

The mayor was inspired by the story of the Newark dog ‘Patrick’ who was brutally beaten and dumped in a trash chute.  Patrick survived and is undergoing treatment but Booker said that what happed to dog was the “most heinous thing” he had ever witnessed as mayor.

Booker has asked for $50,000 in public donations to help get the shelter started and I think it’s a worthy cause. You can go to the site if you want to donate or just check out the video if you want to feel inspired.

So glad people are saying he may be a presidential contender in 2016!