NEWARK – The candidates swing hard at each other.

“People can’t afford to live here,” Guadagno says. “Jack has had six years in the assembly to get his restructuring plan through. How can you want to be the governor if you can’t get your restructuring plan through?”

“You think the Democratic Majority is going to pass my plan?” The legislature lost Republicans over the last six years, Ciattarelli notes. “We’ve lost legislators in your home county,” he says.