Livestreamed Open Conversation with 5 Candidates for U.S. Senate

The livestream can be picked up on either Allysa Nicole Pena-Arrue’s or Javahn Walker’s Facebook page or the Facebook page

of any of the candidates

You are invited to listen in to an open conversation with 5 of the 8 candidates running for U.S. Senate on Tuesday night, October 30th, from 8:00pm to 9:30pm. The five candidates are: Tricia Flanagan (New Day New Jersey), Madelyn Hoffman (Green Party), Kevin Kimple (Make it Simple), Hank Schroeder (Economic Growth) and Murray Sabrin (Libertarian Party). While the event is a conversation instead of a debate, it takes place less than a week after the U.S. Senatorial debate televised by NJTV, the one and only debate agreed to by incumbent Senator Menendez and Republican challenger Bob Hugin, one from which ALL OTHER CANDIDATES FOR U.S. SENATE WERE EXCLUDED. This does the voter in New Jersey a disservice and undermines U.S. democracy.

Two days after the Star Ledger endorsed Senator Menendez with a headline that read “Choke it down and vote for Menendez” without mentioning any of the other choices in the race, there will be a Facebook livestream open conversation with 5 other candidates for U.S. Senate. Unfortunately, while both Bob Hugin and Senator Menendez were invited, neither had the courtesy to acknowledge receiving the invitation, even if it were only to decline.

“I’ve always been disappointed in myself for passing over names on a ballot because I simply didn’t know who they were,” said Allysa Nicole Pena-Arrue. “It is my sincere hope that tomorrow night’s discussion will help educate anyone on the fence so they can get to know the candidates and feel confident in their decision come voting day.”

“I thought of making this event with Allysa Nicole Pena-Arrue because of the way that the mainstream media and established organizations have completely shunned all of the candidates from even having their voice heard,” said Javahn Walker. “They’ve concentrated the attention onto two people and removed a lot of the voters from seeing who they might agree with most. Both mainstream candidates are morally corrupt to the point that it’s another battle of the lesser evil by voters, who really don’t get a choice if independent candidates aren’t even recognized. Although I was a Democratic primary candidate for U.S. Congress this year, I refuse to let this two-party system continue to ostracize the independent candidates.”

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