Mayor Mapp Runs for Congress with a Message of Experience and Empathy

PLAINFIELD – Adrian Mapp came up hard in a place of poverty and desperate need, which gave him toughness and guts, and a sense of empathy for people who suffer, which he poured into public life at the local level as the four-times elected mayor of Plainfield, which he now wants to take to Congress to serve the residents of the 12th District.

Mapp formally kicked off his candidacy last Tuesday, and a day later sat down with InsiderNJ at a coffee shop around the corner from City Hall. “I am someone who has had to fight my way from the bottom to where I am today – to struggle through significant challenges presented by those in charge of Union County politics,” he said.

The struggles of childhood as a poor boy in Barbados prepared Mapp to take part in a political movement here called the…