BRIAN KILMEADE, HOST: Jack, a lot of people at Fox work at, uh, work, uh, and live in New Jersey. And one of the things they told me to ask you is the utility cost. It’s changing everybody’s budget. But what I was fascinated to find out, this is a self-inflicted wound from Governor Murphy. It’s not what Governor Christie left. JACK CIATTARELLI, NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL NOMINEE: It’s not, Brian. When Murphy took office, New Jersey was an electricity exporter. We now have to import it because he shut down six different electricity generation plants, didn’t expand our nuclear footprint in South Jersey, didn’t accelerate solar on all these commercial rooftops, including warehousing, and look where we are today, having to import it through these exchanges and paying through the nose. I can lower people’s rates on day one by pulling us out of RGGI. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative has been a failure, and we’re paying fees for things that don’t help us. That stops on day one of my administration. KILMEADE: Well, I love this ad that you have coming out of your campaign. It’s off a CBS interview, I think, of your opponent, Mikey Sherrill. Watch. REPORTER: So last question, if you could pass one piece of legislation, what would it be? MIKEY SHERRILL, DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR NJ GOVERNOR: Wow, I would love, that’s a really good question because there’s so many that are coming to mind right now. But right now, I would love at this point to pass legislation to just send a federal block grant back to states, back to the state of New Jersey. To run some really key programs and innovation. KILMEADE: Why was that important to put out there? JACK CIATTARELLI: Brian, it’s a disqualifier. My goodness, with those crises that are raging around this state, for her not to be able to answer that question. But here’s the reason why. Like John Corzine, like Phil Murphy, she’s not from New Jersey. And if you’re going to interview for this job of governor, do your damn homework. She hasn’t. And so we’re just going to continue to get out there each and every day, remind people I’m a Jersey guy. We’ve been here for 100 years, the Cheddarellis. We’ve all owned our own businesses. And we know what we need to do to get things done to make life better here in New Jersey.

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