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%u00bb M a a r y Pay Prtator%u00bb Prim ary Pay P rhaar%u00bb Prim ary Pay Prim er*O NTHETRAILBloom: RunningOut of TimeBY JEFF TRACHTMANWhile Carey and Krupsak run their gubernatorial campaigns against each other%u2019s overlapping records, the candidate who offers voters the clearest choice is Jerem iah Bloom. Unlike his opponents, Bloom is pro-Westway, pro-death penalty, and his harsh law and order stance considerably pre-dates Carey%u2019s %u201ctough%u201d stand on crime. Cast generally in a more conservative mold than his adversaries, Bloom bills himself as %u201c a patient man who ran out of patience.%u201dHe%u2019s also running out of time. With the primary Tuesday, the 20-year state Senate veteran trails the other two candidates in various polls by dozens of percentage points, and he may even lose in his own district in East Fiatbush.The seeming failure of Bloom%u2019s effort is reflected in the hectic and disorganized appearance of the campaign. On Labor Day, while the candidate was baby-kissing his way through Brooklyn, no one at this campaign office knew where he was, and no copies of his schedule were available.An informal poll among 80 people who vote regularly in Bloom%u2019s Senate district, (conducted by Lyle Silversmith, a %u201c reform%u201d candidate for Bloom%u2019s soon-to-bevacant Senate seat) found 50 of the voters undecided and roughly 18 for Carey, 9 for Krupsak, and 3 for Carey, 9 for Krupsak, and 3 for favorite-son Bloom. In other polls, Bloom is always a distant third.Why, then, is he running-sacrificing 20 years of seniority in the Senate and a position as the ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee? Some say it%u2019s an elaborate fit of pique at Carey for failing to return Bloom%u2019s 1974 support in kind-by pushing him as Minority Leader (M anhattan Senator Manfred Ohrenstein got the post).Bloom, through a spokesman, would have it differently. %u201c The present Governor,%u201d he says, %u201c let the people down%u201d by refusing to move on important issues. He cites the flow of jobs and industry from the state and the rise of crime as key Carey failures. Bloom broke with the governor early in the administration, and his run for the state%u2019s helm is motivated by a deep sense of frustration with things.UNKNOWN STATEWIDESo Bloom, an unknown statewide with nominal support, took to the streets with a %u201c people%u2019s campaign%u201d which, of course, is a code-word for %u201c no money.%u2019%u2019 %u201c Carey has a lot more money to spend and he can afford a Garth image and all that,%u201d one Bloom______ %u201e ----- J ---- %u00bb*o u p p u i i v i o u j o . u u t W U U U t 1 C V 1that commercials and cliches win. We've gone to the people, and they have responded. We feel the Senator will win the primary.%u201dAnd what about the polls that show him trailing by miles? %u201c We don't put much stock in polls,%u201dcomes the stock answer, %u201c many a candidate has gone to bed a winner and woken up to find his placew v t u g W W U i U lC U iThe %u201cpeople%u201d who are forming the alleged Bloom groundswell are the same oeople who made the death penalty an issue. Says Freda Goodstein, a campaign aid, %u201c The Senator did not seek to make the%u25a0 death penalty the center of his campaign--the people made it%u25a0 important.%u201d Nevertheless,Bloom is not exactly upset that his longstanding harsh crime stance jibes well with current popular emotion. %u201c Too long have we been concerned solely with the rights of the accused,%u201d Bloom says. %u201c Too long have we been enm eshed in technicalities which serve only to return criminals to our communities. Too long have we permitted perpetrators of violent crime to remain at large, to roam the streets and%u2019 invoke havoc and mayhem upon the peaceful, law-abiding defenseless citizens of the state. The restoration of the death penalty for violent crimes is not only a viable deterrent, but a public necessity.%u201dCRACKDOWNBloom has sponsored legislation to restore executions in New York State, as well as other measures to restrict bail and crack down on juvenile offenders. Carey %u201c didn%u2019t do anything%u201d substantive until his recent special session. And of course, both he and Krupsak oppose the death penalty.When Bloom criticizes Carey, of course, he means the CareyKrupsak Administration. %u201c She can%u2019t support him for three and a half years and then the next week divorce herself from the whole thing,%u201d said Goodstein.Despite his protestations to the contrary, the Bloom campaign appears to be an effort to capitalize on capital punishment in light of Mayor Koch%u2019s similar success last year and Carey%u2019s unpopularity on the issue. It nevertheless appears unlikely that the issue is one universal and wrenching enough to overcome Bloom%u2019s major handicaplack of recognition across the state.Carey:No More Death WatchBY JON CINERCarey is back. No one noticed when, or where, or how. But suddenly, after weeks, even months, of doubt about how the Governor could possibly get re-elected, he is strutting forward with great strides, buoyed by his em ergent confidence%u2014and what appear to be the feeble attempts of his opponents to muster last-minute support.Just as sudden is Carey%u2019s emergingplatform, which now lauds his record for cutting $1 billion in taxes, which praises his %u201ctough%u201d stance on crime, which %u201ctrims the fat%u201d in state government. A few months back it looked as though Carey was going to promote an image of New York City%u2019s Savious%u2014and the thrust of the campaign seemed to be toward riding out the city%u2019s fiscal crisis and emphasizing the %u201c 1 Love New York'' motif.And that great Albatross, the Death Penalty, threatened to damn the Carey campaign, an issue which swept Ed Koch into office one year ago.But after a whirlwind tour last weekend through Italian Bensonhurst, Irish cabanas on Breezy Point, the Jewish Beach Clubs, the picture of the candidate that emerges is one of a man on the offensive. No, the Death Penalty does not follow him around%u2014it croppes up rarely, with some of the elderly Jews in Breezy Point, and the Governor, rather than writing off those as nay-votes, confronted them oneon-one, forcing a response out of the voters, as if they were running for office themselves.%u201c What happens if we kill an innocent person?%u201d he demands. %u201c Do you know how much that will cost the state?%u201dThat%u2019s the Carey compassion for you.%u201c You don%u2019t want to kill anyone, do you,%u201d he asks a youth hiding in a crowd who shouted out %u201cwhat about the death penalty?%u201dHE%u2019S A WINNERCarey is the consummate campaigner, a winner. He has a wisecrack for everyone. %u201c Is that what they%u2019re wearing in Paris, Eddy?%u201d he says to Mayor Koch who arrives late at the St. Rosalia parade on 20th Avenue in Bensonhurst in shirtsleeves and a tab collar. %u201c I heard they kept mis-pronouncing your name.%u201dEarlier, he grabbed his old friend Court of Claims Judge Louis Morano. %u201c Hey Louis! See you in the Appellate Division.%u201d Then, %u201c You better see him,%u201d he directs to Morano, pointing to Brooklyn County Leader Meade Esposito. Then he hugs Esposito. %u201c I%u2019m going to make him a commendatore.%u201dThen Carey led the parade down 20th Avenue, leaping over pot-holes and glad-handing anyone who approached him. At the reviewing stand, he praised all regular Democrats, and sang %u201c When Irish Eyes Are Smilin%u2019%u201d betraying a surprisingly sweet lyric Irish tenor.%u201c It%u2019s a shame the ticket broke up,%u201d one aide said.%u201c Mary Anne has a beautiful voice too.%u201dand so on, for the rest of the hot, sunny day. %u201c Hello, I%u2019m getting paid to shake your hand.%u201d %u201c How would you like to be named Kroopsak?%u201d %u201c Those peddlers are probably all Republicans moving out of the state.%u201d %u201c I don%u2019t know why they close the bars at 4 in the m orning.%u2019%u2019 %u201c People say I socialize too much.%u201dTHE GREAT SLASHAnd through all the chuckling, Carey kept insisting that he was the great tax slasher. %u201c In 1970, you paid $600 in taxes on your hom e,%u201d he told one inquirer from Nassau County. %u201c In 1980, you will pay $400. I%u2019m going to cut taxes that much. Now th a t%u2019s better than Proposition 13 and Governor Brown.%u201dWhile the Carey entourage was approaching the Marine Park Bridge, a WINS radio reporter quoted Republican nominee Perry Duryea as charging that Carey upped taxes. The Governor%u2019s limousine suddenly pulled over to the side, Carey got out looking disgusted, and starting kicking sand around the dunes.Then he taped a reply with his press secretary calling Duryea to debate him on taxes instead of %u201c hiding behind your press releases.%u201d The aide phoned in the story for the 2 p.m. news. He was also somewhat disappointed that dav to find out that although Duryea is wealthy, his Financial statement showed that he was not a millionaire. The week before, Carey played himself up as the poorest candidate in the race.In other words, %u201c Krooooopsak%u201d and Bloom didnot appear to occupy the Governor%u2019s mind - he is running against Perry Duryea.There was no David Garth miracle media man following the Governor last week. But there was evidence of a candidate who loved campaigning%u2014to the boredom of everyone else%u2014and who likes to accost voters with what has become long grey hair and a glittering eye.Krupsak: Elusive on the GoBY GARY FREDERICKThere%u2019s been a lot of publicity lately about the lack of organization in Mary Anne K rupsak%u2019s Democratic primary campaign for New York governor. Clearly, some of it is unjustified. Just because the Lieutenant Governor misses scheduled press conferences and foregoes announced public greeting sessions is no reason to accuse her campaign of a lack of organization. Or is it?My search for Krupsak began Monday night, September 4. Her schedule, according to her headquarters called for her to be at Emmons Avenue and Knapp Street in Brooklyn%u2019s Sheepshead Bay at 5:15 p.m. I was there to cover her on the campaign trail, to see how the candidate acted in the public eye, to catch every breath, to spot every upturned eyebrow.The problem revealed itself early. There were no upturned eyebrows, there was no candidate. Just a moderately busy entrance ramp to the Belt Parkway.Knowing that her next stop was the Brighton Beach boardwalk at 6:15, I drove over to the beach at Cone Island Avenue and waited. The boardwalk was populated with an equal mixture of Jewish senior citizens and teenagers, all enjoying the cool breeze blowing in from the Atlantic.EVERYTHING ON SCHEDULEThe candidate probably would hav enjoyed the setting - but again she was not there. A quick cal! to her headquarters in Manhattan revealed that as far as they knew, everything was on schedule. Not uncommon, as I found out later. At 7:30 p.m., when they were still telling me she was supposed to be there - and she still wasn%u2019t - I figured enough was enough and left.On the following day, Tuesday, the whole incident was explained to me by Stewart Ain, press secretary. It seems Krupsak was delayed during the day at a Brobklyn Sicilian Festival and wasn%u2019t able to make it to Sheepshead Bay at all until 7 p.m. There the Krupsak camp expected to find State Senator Donald Halpern whomping up some advance action. No Halpern. Only the darn entrance ramp, still moderately busy. So they called it quits for the night, figuring nobody would be waiting along the campaign trail to greet them anyway.I did PPt to SDPalf tn fhpcandidate by telephone onTuesday. She immediately apologized for the rnixup the previous night, and then we launched into a J5 minuteinterview.Although Krupsak acknowledges a severe lack of money in her campaign, she is hopeful of winning the Democratic primary against Hugh Carey and Jeremiah Bloom. %u201c I%u2019m doing exceeding well. It%u2019s as aiive a race as ever between myself and the Governor,%u201d she asserted.Krupsak maintains that %u201c The press wants to see a multi-media blitz, such as Carey%u2019s campaign,%u201d which has spent almost $1.5 million already and is financing a radio and television crusade. Krupsak has at best raised $100,000.Despite the lack of funds Krupsak hopes to air two fiveminute commercials before September 12, primary day. Plans fer a broadcast on primary eve has been cancelled.She also criticized the antiKrupsak publicity surrounding the National Organization of Women (NOW) endorsement of Carey, saying that she already has 55 women%u2019s chapters behind her and the endorsements of prominent women like Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinen. She accusedf the press of %u201c covering up%u201d that fact.%u201c Betty Friedan is very single issue oriented,%u201d Krupsak said about the feminist who spoke against her. %u201c I%u2019m a governor for all people, including this sector of women.%u201dBut I still wanted to watch Krupsak in action on the campaign trail, so we arranged to meet at a press conference near Cross Bay Bridge toll booths which she had scheduled for the next day - Wednesday.WHERE IS SHE?So Wednesday - the last chance I'd have to catch the candidate before deadline - 1 arrived at the toll booths in plenty of time. I could see nothing but cars, grass and water. I asked the toll attendant it he knew anything about a Krupsak press conference.\place the name. %u201c Krupsak, Long Island?%u201d%u201c No, Mary Anne Krupsak. She%u2019s running for governor.%u201d%u201c Oh. I%u2019m afraid 1 don't know anything about that.\Seeing that this encounter would lead nowhere, I quickly thanked him and sped off to the other side of the bridge. A waste of gas, as it turned out. She wasn%u2019t there either. So I sped back across the bridge and telephoned her headquarters.After I waited on %u201c hold\minutes, a young lady informed me that the candidate was on schedule as far as she knew.%u201c But it%u2019s a quarter after one,%u201d I told her.%u201c Well, she could be a little late,\hold again. %u201cThey were tied up around the airport. Are you on the JFK side?%u201dI said I was, hung up, and then thought that maybe the conference was scheduled to take place by the airport.I traced the two miles back at a highly illegal spped. No Krupsak. Another call back to the headquarters assured me that the conference was at the toll booths. Again I raced back, wondering if all this high speed driving would qualify me for the Indy 500.Three minutes and five gallons of gas later, I was back at the toll boths. Alone. After another half hour of waiting, I left.A press deadline prevented me from pursuing Krupsak any longer;1 admitted defeat. When I got back to my office, a call to Krupsak headquarters confirmed what I had already concluded: As far as they knew, she should be on time. Not one of her aides had calledl i P Q r l n i n i H n . T + %u00ab - . *1---------- -----------------%u2014 i v ^ i o u i v i v . w a a n opress conference.Krupsak is supposed to appear at Battery Park Wednesday at 5 p.m. to greet ferry-goers on their way home. 1 really hope she shows up. Somebody ought ot have the chance to meet her. After all, she says she's running for governor.September 7,1978, THE PHOENIX, Page 13