Why would NJ Elect the Mayor of Newark to the Senate? Behind the violence

Why expand the failures from the City to the State to the US Senate? No more media celebrities in office. They are ruining the country. 
A vist to Newark can require mental steeliness. m/r

New York News
Newark: Behind the violence - New York News
Sep 27, 2013 

By LISA EVERS, Fox 5 News Reporter

... We spoke to community activist Al-Tarik Onque is working for a different escape -- from the cycle of violence. Right now he's trying to convince Cleavan Lambert to reject a criminal lifestyle that began when a gun was put in his hand at the age of 11, and got him shot five times. He just finished his latest "bid," slang for a prison term, and is struggling not to go back. It is an all too common story.

I sat down with 28-year-old Todd Carter just a few feet away from where he was last shot. He has taken more than 20 bullets in five separate incidents, been stabbed and has lost most of the use of his left arm.
Onque has been through the same circumstances and knows some just don't want to change. He said it starts with personal responsibility. Onque is hoping to create a new cycle of peace, where instead of the reflex being to shoot, the reflex is to help. And he is living this by his example.

Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/Story/23543411/newark-behind-the-violence#ixzz2g8SYGgHw