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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * V* * * * * * * *Prim ary Day Primer %u2022 Prim ary Day Primer e Prim ary Day Prim are Prim ary Day Prim erePrim aryf \\ . D i p i i m a m a^ a m # I i # I a 4 a a i lie r r im a r y v a n u iu a ie ^Congressional, State Senate, StateAssembly and District Leader Candidatesin our coverage area were contacted andinvited to subm it statem ents.The following candidates responded:14th C.D.:Bernard GiffordI am running for Congress because I will do the job of representing all the people of the district - which the incumbent cannot do. What can a congressman do? First, he can do more than just vote right. All New York City representatives have good voting records. Voting right is not enough. I will fight to get on powerful committees, committees which draft legislation which will help the district: My opponwnr hA lost the respect of the members of Congress. His voice, never a loud one, is no longer heard at all.Second, he can do something about the causes, not just the symptoms, of poverty, in this, the third-poorest district in New York State. Our district needs economic development, not just private handouts of an air conditioning system here, or a new roof for a church there. It needs more than private philanthropy. It needs capital invested in the docks, the streets and subways, and in the development of new plants and industries where people can find good-paying, permanent jobs. It needs housing. It needs sweat equity programs to help people without the ability to make large down-payments to own their own homes.Third, a congressman must provide local leadership. He must be able to go everywhere, talk to anyone, and work with everyone. There are places in the district where Fred Richmond dare not show his face, including Crown Heights. I have worked with both sides in Crown Heights, and have helped reduce tensions there.Fourth, a representative must provide leadership in national affairs that affect the City beyond those issues most generally associated with a member of the City Council. I can forge a genuine urban coalition of liberal, reform, progressives and minority representatives which will: (a) draft and support legislation to maintain the economic viability of cities; (b) reduce the defense budget without endangering national security, and (c) support democracies and human rights throughout the world.I believe that it is as important to have Black leadership which supports Israel (as I do) as it is to have Jewish leadership which supports civil rights legislation.Finally, I believe that because of my background, education, training and experience, I will be able to provide the people of the dist r i c t u n t i l t h e < * r o n t iv p a n d m m -petent leadership they so desperately need.Also Running:Fred Richmond23rd S.D.:Maxwell ClemmonsI seek the office of State Senator from the 23rd Senatorial district because our current Senator has lost the confidence of his constituency. Secondly I would like to quote some statements that were issued in the Daily News Editorial Friday, October 29, 1976%u201cSome of our State Senators and Assemblymen by their inactivity and bungling or downright perfidy do great damage to all of us.%u201d %u201cIn the public interest, we herewith offer our nomination for the 10 worst legislators, and urge that the electorate run, not walk, to the polls to vote them out on to the street next Tuesday.%u201d \District Vander Beatty (D) bitterly criticizes other legislators, and lines up opposition for measures he supports.%u201d %u201cA black, he has made no friends for the black cause, and is considered a do-nothing obstructionist.%u201dAlso Running:Vander Beatty21st S.D.:John CarrollFor too long the special interests have controlled too many people%u2019s lives. Banks redline. Utilities obtain rate hikes without any increase in service, insurance companies refuse to insure the small business. This must stop.My candidacy is based on fighting these interests which affect the neighborhoods in Brooklyn and throughout the State. For example, the Lincoln Savings Bank, the largest bank in Bay Ridge, is refusing to accept any applications for home mortgages until the interest rate goes up. People who have deposited their savings in the Lincoln cannot obtain mortgages. So instead of young couples buying in Brooklyn, they%u2019ll leave for the suburbs where mortgages are available.When I investigated this situation, Lincoln said: \after November when the interest rate increases to 9*4 or 9V%u00ab percent.%u201dWhen I%u2019m elected I want to be there in the State Senate when that legislation is presented. I will not forget Lincoln%u2019s position like other politicians who will bow to the pressure of the special interests.I will be a full-time Senator willing to serve the people in Park S ln rw > ; W i n d s o r T o r r a e o R vRidge, Bensonhurst, Sunset Park. I wifi provide another independent voice in the Legislature along with Assemblymen Pesce, Ferris, Barbaro and Senator Connor.The 21st S.D. is a varied area with enormous strengths and problems. Yet if we build on thealready independent voices in the Legislature, the special interests will have to answer to the people.John ZitoThe other day 1 overheard a discussion between a man who appeared to be in his late sixties and a young man obviously a long way from retirement. The topic of conversation was real estate taxes. The elderly gentleman was explaining how he could no longer live in his own paid up house because he was living on social security and the taxes on his house were so high he simply could not afford to pay them. The young man%u2019s reply was shocking. He said, %u201cWhen you retire you must expect to lower your standard of living.%u201dAlthough most of our ivory towery government officials and elected representatives refrain from using such blunt language their actions reflect this same %u201cdiscard the senior citizen%u201d way of thinking. This harsh way of dealing with the elderly must and can be changed. We must safeguard our senior citizens%u2019 golden years with honor and dignity. Under existing law, the real estate tax exemption for senior citizens is just above the poverty level. No wonder so many are forced out of their homes by an unjust system of taxation. The real estate tax exemption for senior citizens should be raised to at least $10,000. I will see that this is done if you send me to Albany as your next State Senator.Senior citizens who rent also need and deserve the opportunity to remain where they have lived during their working lives if they wish to do so. This can be accomplished without putting an extra financial burden upon the already overtaxed property owner. The state should institute a system of rent exemptions for senior citizens whereby the landlord is compensated for his loss of revenue by the state through either tax deductions or direct payments from the state in the form of a rent subsidy.Adequate medical care for senior citizens is of vital importance. The present Medicare program is inadequate since many senior citizens cannot afford to pay the fees required of them. The senior citizens%u2019 contribution is constantly rising. Senior citizens should have a real medical insurance protection whereby their contributions toward their hospital and medical bills is set at zero, and premiums should be cut, not raised as is currently the practice.Senior citizens have paid high taxes to support all those costly, and sometimes wasteful programs thought up by politicians. It%u2019s about time the government took care of the Senior Citizen. If I am elected as your next State Senator I will get action to see that we safeguard our senior citizens%u2019 golden years with honor and dignity.tral Brooklyn it%u2019s a struggle for majority representation. Indeed the prime issue facing the voters in the 18th Senatorial District, where more than 248,000 black and Hispanic reside, is whether blacks and Hispanics will unite and control our own political destiny or whether we will continue to allow the whites who vote from Greenpoint to determine who will represent Central Brooklyn%u2019s 18 S.D.The incumbant from Greenpoint, Thomas Bartosiewicz, has repeatedly demonstrated by his voting record his ignorance and insensitivity to the major issues effecting the majority of the residents of the 18th district. The issues are: unemployment and sub-standard housing, education, and health care. M oreover Bartosiewicz%u2019s failure to address these issues or to sponsor any major legislation effecting them, coupled with his voting in opposition to the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus on the Death Penalty and medicaid payments for abortions for poor women; his sponsorship of repressive legislation against pupils suspended from Public schools; his sponsorship of bills aimed at increasing the cost of tuition and examination cost for students attending tax supported universities; his poor attendance record in the Senate where he was absent more than 45% of the last session; and his failure to take a stand for justice in the Randolph Evans, Arthur Miller, Victor Rhodes Bensonhurst circumstances concering police violence and racism and white civilian vigilantism and terrorism directed against black youth, is a clear indication that he serves the needs of the few and not thema<18th S.D.:Samuel PinnIn Southern Africa, it%u2019s a struggle for majority rule. In CenAlso Running:Thomas Bartosiewicz57th A.D.:VelmanettMontgomeryThe unique communities and different groups of people that make up the 57th Assembly District need to be in control of their future. They need an Assemblyperson who lives in the district and who keeps an office in the district, they do not have that now.They need public employees, school personnel, police and firemen who live in the communities of our City. We need more resources for education, we need better day care services for all economic groups and we need clean streets.Rather than waste my time reading some 20,000 bills that get voted down in the legislature I will spend my time representing the communities of the 57th Assembly District.As President of the School Board I have provided leadership in School District no. 13, which runs from Brooklyn Heights to Bedford Stuyvesant. In the fight for better education New York State should provide education dollars based on enrollment rather than attendance. The present system continues topenalize our City and other urban areas while favoring suburban communities.As a leader in citywide lobbying campaigns to provide quality day care I have helped d raft legislation for State legislators in Albany and informed parents how existing legislation affected them and how they could participate in bringing about change.Like many of you I have participated in numerous blocksweeps only to see the streets dirty again the next day. I will fight to bring back the returnable bottle to keep the C ity%u2019s streets clean while providing jobs for the City.If my concerns are yours, vote for me September 12 and I vow to vigorously promote our views.Virginia ApuzzoWe have a housing shortage in this district. Current policy encourages the demolition of sound buildings, and the construction of inferior units in their place. The18.000 to 20,000 housing units that are abandoned in this city each year represent not only the deaths of neighborhoods, but the loss of personal investment as well as uncollected property taxes. When the budget crisis hit the headlines in 1976, $300 million dollars in property taxes were owed to the city. Had that revenue been available to the city, 30,000 jobs which represent various services to the community could have been saved.I would work to see that rehabilitation of sound structures be one of the major responses to the need for affordable housing. Health cares means more than the rate of bed usage. If should include programs for prevention of health problems, out patient care, home care, and - nutrition education. Perhaps if; officials of decision making Ijbdies like the H ealth and H ospitals Corporation were accountable to the community, they would not be able to ignore the overwhelming support within the community to save Cumberland Hospital.I would work to see that decision making bodies like H ealth and H ospitals Corporation, the Public Service Commission and the Emergency Financial Control Board be more responsive to community needs. There are no simpLe solutions to the crime epidemic. However, the attack on narcotics traffic must involve more than moving the pushers from one block to another. Instead of keeping police busy rounding up habitual criminals that the courts let out, mandatory minimum sentences for violent crimes must be implemented %u2014 even when commited by juveniles.Over the last three years 350 million dollars in Community Development Funds allocated to the city were not used. That monev could have rehabilitated36.000 housing units, generated11.000 jobs and returned 10 million dollars in taxes to the city. The money is not being used because those in charge with dispursing it are not making it available to communities which have a right to participate in%u00ab t%u2014 r%a i / M - k i i w m ------* -------- %u25a0----------a m y o lOf i n c r n v c m A , /, 19/0