Meet The Hoboken Candidates For Mayor, BOE, City Council: Public Forum

HOBOKEN, NJ — The Hoboken Quality of Life Coalition will host a series of public candidates forums leading up to the Nov. 7 elections, featuring several local City Council, Board of Education and mayoral hopefuls.

According to a news release from the coalition, the forums will give Hoboken voters a chance to hear candidates for office “answer the questions they care most about in an even-handed and direct format.”

• The 14 City Council at Large candidates have been randomly sorted into two groups of seven to meet in two forums, on Thursday, Oct. 12, at Mile Square Theater, 1400 Clinton St., and Monday, Oct. 16, at the Hoboken Multiservice Center, 124 Grand St.
• The seven Board of Education candidates are scheduled to meet on Thursday, Oct. 19, at the School Hall of the Church of Our Lady of Grace and St. Joseph, at 422 Willow Ave.
• The mayoral candidates forum will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at Stevens Institute of Technology’s DeBaun Auditorium, co-hosted by the Stevens Institute of Technology and its Student Government Association.

Each forum begins at 7 p.m. and lasts about two hours with a brief intermission, event organizers stated. Don’t forget to visit the Patch Hoboken Facebook page here.

According to organizers:

“This year’s candidates forums will follow the established format that the Hoboken QLC has maintained for over a decade, with questions submitted on index cards by members of the audience and posed to each of the candidates in turn by moderator Bob Bowdon, a professional interviewer and longtime resident of Hoboken. Each candidate will have a minute and a half to respond, and the order of response will be randomized each round. John Heinis, chief news correspondent at HudsonCountyView.com, will moderate the Board of Education forum Oct. 19.”

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