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Fixing America: the View from Edison and Plainfield By Bob Hennelly | April 25, 2021, 10:56 pm | in Columnist, News
The debate over President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill has been primarily centered around the personalities behind the White House’s $2 trillion plus plan and the GOP’s $568 billion counter proposal.
As a consequence, this beltway conversation is all about national horse race politics, whose ideas are polling best, who will compromise, and who will stand firmest.
The reporting is disconnected from the lived experience of the American people who in just the last year have been through a pandemic that killed over half a million people and an insurrection that for the first time in our history saw the peaceful transition of power at risk.
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Plainfield mayor to face 3 challengers in June Democratic primary
MyCentralJersey.com
PLAINFIELD – Mayor Adrian Mapp will face three challengers in the Democratic primary as he seeks a third term in office.
Second Ward Councilman Sean McKenna, Board of Education member Richard A. Wyatt Jr. and Dr. Henrilynn Ibezim have all filed petitions to run against Mapp in the June 8 primary.
Mapp, who is seeking his third term in office, is running on the Regular Democratic Organization of Union County slate, and is joined by Councilwoman Stacey Welch, who is seeking election to the Fourth Ward Council seat that she was appointed to.
Plainfield mayoral challenger looks to debate Mapp
MyCentralJersey.com
PLAINFIELD - Native son Richard Wyatt Jr., a two term Board of Education member, is looking to challenge Mayor Adrian Mapp in the June Democratic mayoral primary.
Wyatt, who announced his candidacy for mayor last November, held his first virtual news conference Monday evening and shared his plan for the city s future.
Wyatt said he s devoted his life to helping others and making the city he loves better.
While once Plainfield, which is nicknamed the Queen City, was known as a community of prestige, he said now people associate the city with crime, lack of services and the inability to offer opportunities.