It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

So somewhere in between accusing each other of a mysterious military scandal

and killing tens of thousands of people.

Somewhere in between those things was a New Jersey gubernatorial candidates debate on the issues last night on Channel 7 in New York and Channel 6 in Philadelphia, the ABC stations that cover the state.

Somewhere in there, we learned

about Democrat, Mike E. Sherrill and Republican Jack Chitterelli's different approaches to rising

utility bills and climate change, education, choice, and funding, immigration, more affordable

housing, and managing the state while Donald Trump is president.

But it's those alleged scandals that have grabbed the headlines this morning.

If you paid any attention to the news, you know that.

We will try to address both.

We've got about half a dozen clips to play.

We'll open our phones and text message thread for you.

And we've got our favorite New Jersey Maven Nancy Solomon,

whose asked Governor Murphy call in was postponed last night. So it wouldn't compete with the debate for the attention of voters in the state. Hi, Nancy. Hi, Brian. I'm very happy to hear that I'm

your favorite. And wow, they were hitting each other harder than the Blue Jays hit Yankees pitching,

and that's pretty hard.

Were you expecting that level of accusation?

Yeah, I mean, this is the last debate, and the most recent polls showed them at a dead tie,

so they've got to, you know, they've got to go

negative. They've got to do that stuff. I agree with you. There was, if you listen super

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