The seven GOP candidates debated national issues for an hour before an overflow audience at Mountainside on Thursday, May 22, 2008. The event was sponsored by The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times newspapers. All candidates attended. The Republican Primary race in the 7th Congressional District features State Senator Leonard Lance (LD-23, Flemington), Kate Whitman, the daughter of former Governor Christine Todd Whitman; Scotch Plains Mayor Martin Marks; former Summit City Council President Kelly Hatfield, Tom Roughneen of Watchung, A.D. Amar of Warren, a professor at Seton Hall University, and Darren Young of Summit, who is running on the ballot line with Senate candidate Murray Sabrin.

See more information on the race here.