Pallone and Sonnek-Schmelz will debate at Monmouth University on November 2

Congressman Frank Pallone and his Republican challenger, Atlantic Highlands School Board Member Brent Sonnek-Schmelz will engage in a candidates forum moderated by the League of Women Voters on Wednesday November 2 at Monmouth University’s Wilson Hall in West Long Branch.  The forum will start at 7:30 p.m. and is scheduled to end at 9 p.m.

The candidates for New Jersey’s 6th Congressional District’s seat in the House of Representatives will make an opening statement and then take questions from the audience. Bill Madden from the Township of Ocean LWV will serve as the moderator.

The 6th Congressional District is comprised of Aberdeen, Allenhurst, Asbury Park, Atlantic Highlands, Deal, Hazlet, Highlands, Interlaken, Keansburg, Keyport, Loch Arbor, Long Branch, Marlboro, Matawan, part of Middletown, Monmouth Beach, Oceanport, Sea Bright, Union Beach and West Long Branch, in Monmouth County and the Middlesex County communities of Carteret, Edison, Highland Park, Metuchen, New Brunswick, Old Bridge Township (part), Perth Amboy, Piscataway Township,Sayreville, South Amboy, South Plainfield, Woodbridge Township.