It’s probably a safe bet that Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is the only politician in New Jersey who films himself in front of a bookcase that contains a prominently displayed copy of a Fidel Castro biography.

Most would likely choose Abraham Lincoln (Jack Ciattarelli’s favorite president), although New Jersey didn’t like Lincoln when he led the country, and even recruited his nemesis George McClellan to run for governor.

If you’re Jay Webber, you don’t make a public address unless you have a portrait of Ronald Reagan in the background, and if you’re Phil Murphy, you make sure to dust off Arthur Schlesinger’s bio on Bobby Kennedy to feature in the background.

But Baraka doesn’t mind fronting the Fidel association.