Redistricting Moves Plainfield

The results of redistricting place Plainfield in District 12. The new map shows Plainfield in yellow, as an appendage at the northernmost point of the district, which is represented by Congressman Rush Holt.

Plainfield had been in the northernmost portion of District 6, represented by Congressman Frank Pallone.

In the redistricting, Holt lost the Hunterdon County portion of his district.

There may be challenges to the redistricting decision, according to news reports quoting Jerome Harris of the New Jersey Black Issues Convention and New Jersey Congressional Redistricting Coalition. (Plaintalker recalls Harris as a former Plainfield city administrator and a very astute person on governmental issues. He also was former Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer's business administrator.)

--Bernice