In Plainfield, Mapp gets in the game against Mayor Robinson-Briggs
By Max Pizarro | January 26th, 2009 - 5:18pm
Councilman Adrian Mapp
PLAINFIELD - Pledging transparency in government, better city services and better advocacy for residents, Ward Three Councilman Adrian Mapp today formally announced his intention to challenge one-term Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs.
A former two-term member of the Plainfield City Council and former Union County Freeholder, Mapp won re-election to the council last year on a ticket with Annie McWIlliams, daughter of the late former Mayor Al McWilliams, whom Robinson-Briggs defeated four years ago.
"I had planned as far back as 2007 on running for Mayor," said Mapp, "but put that thought on the back burner after I was approached by residents about running for the Ward 3 seat. Folks were concerned that with the issues the country and the City were facing, a more experienced and pro-active presence was needed from the Third Ward.“Like the rest of the country, Plainfield is facing an extremely difficult future for at least the next two years,” added Mapp, a chief financial officer for the City of Roselle. “People are losing their jobs and their homes, the likelihood that our tax receipts will be negatively impacted is very high, and we must come to grips with the realities of the situation. Plainfield simply cannot afford four more years of a mayor who rushes to hug people but seems incapable of actually helping them.”
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Mapp is a fraud and Plainfield deserves
his sorry butt.
Mapp fell out
of favor with the Union County Democratic Machine. There's something to be said for that.
Right NFS
and he fell in with Jim Devine and that honest crew!
Mapp
Bitaryo is way off on this one. Mapp is part of the New Democrats in Plainfield. He was an ally of Mayor Al McWilliams (RIP). He would be 10,000,000 times better than Briggs or any other hack the Union County Democrats would endorse. The enemy of my enemy is my friend Bitaryo.
Doesn't Ray Lesniak control Plainfield?
His firm is the lawyer for half of their agencies/commissions/boards. Whomever he's endorsing is in! Follow the money!
Slowburn
Ask the poor b@stards in Roselle that elected those non Machine Dems and are slowly voting the charlatans out. These are the same clowns that hired Mapp as CFO. The man is a waste of a carbon footprint.
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