Debating the Debates – Insider NJ

Jack Ciattarelli wants to see a lot of Mikie Sherrill this fall – on the debate stage.

Ciattarelli and Jim Gannon, his lieutenant governor candidate, asked the state’s Election Law Enforcement Commission, to schedule more than the customary, two gubernatorial debates this campaign season.

The request sounded like a campaign ad. Here’s part of it:

“The people of New Jersey are rightfully frustrated with the direction of our state after eight years of Governor Murphy and twenty-five years of one-party Democrat control of our state Legislature. They want and deserve change and would be best-served by seeing the candidates vying for our state’s two highest offices side-by-side on a debate stage as often as possible.

Voters deserve candidates who do not duck the public and the press,…