NJ Governor Candidate Jack Ciattarelli To Visit This Long Valley Business

Update: This event has been canceled.

LONG VALLEY, NJ — Those looking to shake the hand of New Jersey’s next potential governor won’t need to look very far, because Republican Gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli is visiting a local business soon.

Ciattarelli will be doing a ‘business stop’ at The Coffee Potter, 24 Schooley’s Mountain Road in Long Valley, in a few weeks.

Ciattarelli will be in the coffee shop on Sept. 2 at 2 p.m. Those looking to meet the potential governor and discuss issues in the state are welcome to join the event.

The candidate already has ties to Morris County, after he tapped Morris County Sheriff James M. Gannon as his running mate.

Come November, Ciattarelli will face off against Democratic Governor Nominee Mikie Sherrill. The two are diametrically opposed on several issues facing the state, including housing affordability, women’s reproductive rights, and immigration.

Sherrill, of course, has ties to Morris County as well, representing several parts of the county as a congresswoman. The democrat recently tapped Centenary University President Dale Caldwell as her running mate.

Recent polling shows that Sherrill has a slight lead in the gubernatorial race, three months before Election Day. A Fairleigh Dickinson University poll gives Sherrill an eight-point lead over Ciattarelli among likely voters, 45 percent to 37 percent, with 16 percent still undecided.

Another poll from Rutgers University said that 51 percent of potential voters would vote for Sherrill if the election were being held now, while 31 percent say they would vote for Ciattarelli. Five percent said they’d vote for neither candidate, or someone else, with 13 percent being unsure.

The Rutgers poll added that Trump’s position in office is a “major factor” for more than half of the polled potential NJ voters.

Election Day is Nov. 4.