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Page Ten, PHOENIXO %u2019Shea Candidate ForLocal City Council SeatNEW POLITICSBootstraps Revived%u201c Democratic voters in Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Fort Greene, Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights.... are unanimous in their resentment of your selection of Frederick W.Simon O'SheaRichmond of 25 Sutton PI., Manhattan, to fill the councilmanic seat recently vacated by Supreme Court Judge Leonard Scholnick,%u201d opened a letter to Meade Esposito, Democratic County Chairman, from Simon O%u2019Shea, Brooklyn Heights Reform Democrat.After blasting Richmond as a %u201c Manhattan tycoon%u201d with %u201c phony philanthropies,%u201d O%u2019Shea wrote, %u201c In response to the public indignation (over Richmond%u2019s appointment), I, am today announcing my candidacy for New York City Council from the 29th District.%u201dO%u2019Shea, a past president and current executive committee member of the West Brooklyn Independent Democrats, announced his candidacy in the denouncing letter to Esposito on Monday.%u201c Our community,%u201d O%u2019Shea told Esposito, %u201c certainly could have produced a first rate candidate without your extending your %u2018talent%u2019 search to Sutton Place.%u201d He warned the Kings County Leader that the Richmond appointment gave the appearance of a payoff for past political contributions saying, %u201c Democrats should attempt to show money is not a guaranteed entree to government power as a contrast to the methods of Watergate and the slush funds of the Committee to reelect the President.%u201dRichmond%u2019s one-vote election to the City Council is particularly offensive to the peace coalition, labor and the poor, O%u2019Shea warned Esposito. %u201c Citizens who have worked for peace in Vietnam for over a decade were outraged by the fact that Richmond dropped his 1968 anti-war position to act as 1972 campaign chairman for Congressional Hawk John Rooney.%u201d Citing his own long involvement in the peace movement O%u2019Shea said, %u201c We consider Richmond a traitor to the cause of peace who only played with ourBTU Fights Real Estate TaxThe Brooklyn Tenants Union, a newly formed organization devoted to tenants rights, has come out against the city%u2019s proposed 10.4 per cent real estate tax, stating that it will ultimately amount to %u2018new sales tax on tenants.%u201dErnest Lendler of the Union%u2019s Political Action Co. calls on tenants to pressure their city councilmen to stop the new levy, which the city justifies as an offset to the projected $242 million budget deficit during the coming fiscal year.Charging that the big real estate owners will pass the tax increases along to tenants via new rent increases, Lendler notes that the tenants cannot even deduct theirsympathies in 1958 and has been mute ever since.%u201dO%u2019Shea also reopened the 1968 campaign issue of Richmond%u2019s use of funds from his personal charitable foundation for political purposes.O%u2019Shea, a 41-year-old business consultant, announced he would be seeking the endorsement and support of all Democratic voters, but particularly that of independent and Reform Democrat clubs %u201c who have labored for so many years to eliminate the kind of autocratic power that has briefly elevated Frederick W. Richmond to high office.Office To ServeState Sen. Carol Bellamyand Assemblyman MichaelL. Pesce announced thisweek the opening of theircommunity Service office at78 Montague St. The officewill be open on Tues. andThurs. from 4:00 p.m. to6:00 p.m. and on Saturdayfrom 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.The formation of a new political organization under the banner, %u201c Kings County Citizens for Good Government,%u201d has been announced. %u201c One objective of the newly formed group,%u201d said Robert A. Tomeo, an unsuccessful Conservation candidate for assembly, %u201c is to dump Lindsay. But of course, this would be an objective of any organization interested in good, effective government.%u201d The bulk of the members already recruited are young people in their twenties and thirties.Honesty in government and the establishment of what can generally be considered a conservative political philosophy are the most important objectives of this young group. %u201c We fully support President Nixon%u2019s reemphasize on individual responsibility and the President%u2019s wariness of too much reliance on government bureaucracy,%u201d said Tomeo. Besides Nixon, the group seeks to support such candidates as Sen. Buckley and Lt. Gov. Wilson.Magnified BooksSenior Citizens are invited to join a special literary club offering selections of popular titles in large print editions from the Brooklyn Public Library.Tomeo, president of the organization, ran for the Assembly in the June 1972 Republican Primary and was the Conservative candidate for State Assembly in the November elections. Tomeo was also past president of the St. Francis College Young Republicans for four years.Dan Donovan is vice-president of the new organization and Charles Kolarik is the treasurer. Those interested in joining the organization can contact Bob Tomeo at 643-0077.Richmond En RouteContinued from Page 2Legislations Committees, the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Committee and the important Finance Committee.%u201c The Finance panel controls New York%u2019s purse strings,%u201d Richmond said, commenting on his appointment, %u201c and I will make certain this year that Brooklyn gets its full share of city money.%u201d Richmond said he will try to make the Finance Committee into a watchdog panel over municipal expenditures: holding down taxes, eliminating whimsical spending and guaranteeing that all New Yorkers get the mast out of their tax dollar.City Becomes Classroomraises from their income tax. In addition, he advises that Con Edison and New York Telephone Co. have announced that their rates will go up to compensate for any real estate tax increase.The Tenants Union, which is a member of the Brooklyn Coordinating Committee of Neighborhood Tenant Councils, will participate in launching a campaign against the state vacancy decontrol law and against the city%u2019s maximum base rent rulingThe Union, open to all borough tenants, holds a weekly housing workshop at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Building, 1368 Fulton St., every Tues. at 7:30 p.m.The first session of %u201c City As School,%u201d an alternative high school with its curriculum based on use of the city%u2019s resources, was held or, Mon. Feb. 5, at its 65 Court St. headquarters.This new school, a first in New York, was set up with its 61 registered students involved full time in the planning. The students, high school juniors and seniors who have fulfilled their math and science requirements, will receive full credit for learning experiences at city cultural, educational, medical, political and other institutions. According to Director Frederick J. Koury, the students, whose abilities range from %u201c below average%u201d to especially gifted, will work in 10-week cycles, with about five or six learning experiences per week. Travel time has been blocked in, Koury says, and students have been provided with transportation maps and subway tokens in anticipation of their daily travels around New York.Some of the city centers which will be providing the learningexperiences tor the teenagers, most of whom were good students in conventional high schools, but felt dissatisfied with the range of possibilities, include: The Museum of Natural History, T h e. Asia Society, The Turkish Consulate, The Bill Baird Puppet Theater, Center for Inter-American Relations, Greenpoint Hospital, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Montessori School, Studio for Creative Movement, Shelton Health Club, Manhattan School of Music, Man. Congressman Ed Koch, Brooklyn Polytech, Brooklyn College and the PHOENIX.Celebration of the opening of City As School was marked by a ceremony at headquarters last Friday, attended by the students, plus Betsy Hogan, assistant to the mayor for educational matters; Dr. Seelig Lester, deputy superintendent in charge of instruction for the public schools; Asst. Supt. Oscar Dombrow, in charge of Brooklyn high schools, and Director Koury.ONE FORSPECIAL!KIT IN CLU DES- . Remarkable Vivilar. Electronic Flash. 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The law includes a penalty of $200 for each violation, or imprisonment for 10 days, or both.The new councilman, who has taken on the hotel situation as his first priority, cites the vulnerability of the senior citizens and welfare recipients who are the main occupants of such places as the Pierrepont Hotel in Brooklyn Heights; places with flimsy doors, no guards and no direct dialing. %u201c They are the least able to defend themselves from muggers and attackers,%u201d Richmond says.A resolution calling on President Nixon to remove the federal freeze on new public housing was also introduced by the councilman last week. 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