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G O P candidates m eet (left to right) Joe Voyticky in the 57th A ssem bly D istrict, N at H endricks in the 11th C ongressional D istrict and Pat K earney in the 25th S ta te S en ate D istrict.(P h oenix/T aylo r Photo)D em ocratic candidates, from left: S tate S en ator M arty Connor, 25th Sen ate D istrict, 52ndA D. D em ocratic D istrict Leader Joan M illm an, 52nd A ssem b lym em b er Eileen Dugan, and52nd D istrict Leader John M cElhinney. (P h oenix/T aylo r Photo)a , %u00ab. ' W' 3 \%u00bb * :Some Political Contenders Will Yawn Their Way Through Election Day In Downtown BrooklynOther than the candidates in the 52nd, 56thand 57th Assembly Districts and the neckand-neck race being waged in the 23rd StateSenate District, the remaining DowntownBrooklyn area races provide little excitement as the Democratic candidates are theodds on favorites.U.S. CONGRESS10th Congressional District: This SouthBrooklyn district that stretches from ParkSlope through Sheepshead Bay to Canarsie isrepresented by Democrat Chuck Schumer.Schumer is also the Liberal Party candidate.With no Republican candidate, his only opposition if from Conservative Alice Gaffney.11th Congressional District: Two-termRepresentative Ed Towns holds this NorthBrooklyn seat that stretches from CarrollGardens through Bedford-Stuyvesant to EastNew York. Towns is both the Democrat andLiberal candidate. Real estate broker NatHendricks is running for the GOP and AlfredHammal appears as the Conservative candidate.12th Congressional District: Rep. MajorOwens is the incumbent Democrat andLiberal candidate in this Central Brooklyndistrict that includes parts of BedfordStuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush andBrownsville. Owen Augustin, a minister, isthe Republican candidate and Joseph Caesaris running as the Conservative and onlyRight-to-Iife candidate in Brooklyn.13th Congressional District: This WestBrooklyn district that stretches from Greenpoint through Williamsburg, BrooklynHeights and Red Hook to Coney Island isrepresented by the Democrat and Liberalcandidate Steve Solarz. Leon Nadrowski, aphysician, is the GOP contender and SamuelRoth is standing for the Conservatives.STATE SENATE22nd Senate District: This downtowndistrict includes parts of Red Hook, BoerumHill, Ft. Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant isrepresented by Liberal and Democratic Incumbent Velmanette Montgomery. She hasno GOP opposition, but the Conservativeshave placed Joseph Leopoldi on the ballot.25th Senate District: Marty Connor,Democrat and Liberal candidate, representsthis tri-borough district that includesBrooklyn Heights and Williamsburg as wellas parts of Staten Island and Lower Manhattan. Contractor Pat Kearney from StatenIsland is his GOP and Conservative opponent.STATE ASSEMBLY:44th Assembly District: Mel Miller is a16-year veteran of the State Assembly and acontender for Assembly Speaker next yearwhen Stanley Fink, the Assemblymemberfrom Canarsie retires. Miller is theDemocratic and Liberal Party candidate. Attorney Steve Mill us is the Republican andConservative candidate.50th Assembly District: Democrat JoeLentol is the incumbent in this Greenpoint/Williamsburg district. Rita Layden isthe GOP candidate and Linda Kupidlowski isstanding for the Conservatives. There is noLiberal candidate.51st Assembly District: First-termAssemblymember Jim Brennan is theDemocratic and Liberal candidate in thisPark Slope/Windsor Terrace district. Sigmund Ruzycki is his GOP opponent andMabel Marion is running as the Conservative.Voters Will Also Approve Or Disapprove A n Environmental Quality Bond Issue Next WeekTwo proposals appear on this year%u2019s_ absentee ballots in the general election, butonly one, the Environmental Quality BondIssue, will actually make it to the voters onNov. 4. The other proposal, an amendmentto the New York City Charter to force theCity to use funds, now spent on homelessshelter upkeep, on permanent housing, wasremoved from the ballot two weeks ago bythe State Court of Appeals.Appearing as Proposition Two on theabsentee ballots, the Court ruled that it wasnot an appropriate amendment for thepublic to cast votes on because the StateConstitution forbids this type of amendment. A similar decision was reached lastyear when the Coalition for a Nuclear FreeHarbor tried to place a proposition on theballot to stop the City from spending moneyon a Navy Homeport on Staten Islandbecause the ships could carry nuclearweapons.According to Bill Adams, executive director of the Committee for New York%u2019sFuture, the proposition would have requiredthe City to use the $150 million spent annually on homeless shelters for low-incomehousing.%u201cIt is still not clear what we will be doingnext,%u201d he says. %u201cWe don%u2019t have any plansyet to immediately try to get the measureon the ballot next time.%u201d The absenteeballots cost will not be counted.The Environmental Quality Bond Issue of1986 remains as the only state-wide proposalon this year%u2019s ballot. If approved by thevoters, the $1.45 billion bond issue will provide $1.2 billion for the rapid cleanup ofhazardous waste sites and $250 million forpublic land acquisition, historic preservation and municipal park facilitiesthroughout the state.According to Mayor Koch, a deal withGovernor Cuomo has been made settingaside roughly $100 million of the money forhistoric preservation and public land acquisition could be available to New York City as well as a sizeable portion of the $1.2billion for interest free loans to help closepublic landfills.Interestingly, the proposition has bipartisan support, including GOP gubernatorial candidate, Andy O%u2019Rourke, andState Senate Majority Leader, WarrenAnderson. Governor Cuomo was responsiblefor forming the statewide committee that istrying to pass the bond issue and hasenlisted the support of such notables as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Robert Redford,Pete Seeger and Laurence Rockefeller tosupport passage of the measure.Several local organizations also supportthe bond issue, including the BrooklynBotanic Garden, the Brooklyn HeightsAssociation, the Brooklyn Historical Societyand the Prospect Park EnvironmentalCenter.Funds from the measure will be used toclean up the worst of the state%u2019s 971 hazardous waste sites. As the Federal SuperfundHazardous Waste Cleanup program has notbeen able to clean up many of the nation%u2019swaste sites, the bond issue is expected to bea model for other states to follow.Campaign Financial Disclosures Show Big Money Earned For Local Democratic CandidatesThe 32-day pre-general election financialdisclosure statements for candidates in thisyear%u2019s Downtown Brooklyn area races showthat Democratic incumbents are heavilyfavored by business and union political actioncommittees and that GOP challengers arehaving problems raising signficant amountsof money to back their efforts.In tbs* 52nd Assembly District, thatstretches from Brooklyn Heights throughCarroll Gardens to Bay Ridge, incumbentDemocratic candidate Eileen Dugan hasmanaged to spend 30 times the amount ofmoney her GOP opponent, Diane Picucci,has raised. Dugan reports total campaigncosts of $61,390.23, while Picucci has managed to spend only $1,960.15.Most of Dugan%u2019s contributions were raisedprior to the mast recent period, with about$12,023 raised during the first half of thisyear. She won her Democratic nominationwithout a race after she knocked her onlyparty opponent off the ballot in court, and hercampaign expenses during the general election have been minimal, only $2,031.67through September 29. Some of her largestcontributions have come from organizedlabor with the Longshoreman%u2019s Uniondonating the most, $2,000, to her re-electionbid. West Brooklyn Congresman Steve Solarzalso POntrihntoH ------ T *1jf<100 ----------Picucci%u2019s major contributors are friendsand local GOP officials. Thornton Willett,who ran as the Republican candidate againstDugan in 1980, contributed $125. Her expenses have almost exclusively coveredmaterials and supplies for campaign postersand flyers.In Ft. Green%u2019s 57th Assembly District, theincumbent candidate, Roger Green, whorunning for re-election on the L&eral Paryline this year, report Campaign expenses of$13,665.%. The Democratic candidate,Stanley Frere, knocked Green off theDemocratic primary ballot in State SupremeCourt, failed to file a financial disclosurestatement. The GOP candidate, JoeVoyticky, is running a shoe-string campaignof $1,019.Despite losing re-renomination, Green hasb%h able to rely on several sizeable contributions from the Democratic Party and incumbent Democratic officials. The BrooklynDemocrats have donated $1,000, as has northBrooklyn Rep. Ed Towns and ManhattanAssemblymember Mark Alan Seigel. QueensAssemblymember Alan Hevesi, a candidatefor Assembly speaker next year, has contributed $350.Green has also spent a large amount erfmoney on campaign assistance. The recordsshow that on Sept. 9, his campaign targetedthe Brooklyn Arms Hotel and distributedliterature to the residents. The seven peopleassisting him were each paid $30.Voyticky has raised most of his moneythrough contributions from family membersand friends. His father, Frank, and mother,Lois, have donated $250 to the campaign. Hehas also taken a $250 loan from DuaneJackson, the chairman of the BrooklynRepublicans for O%u2019Rourke. %u2014 R.T.Senator Mega Outspent Challenger MontaltoBy Alm ost Three TimesAlthough the financing of the GOP andDemocratic campaigns in the Slope/BayRidge 23rd Senate District is not reaching theproportions it did in 1984 when the two candidates squared off once before, Chris Mega,this year%u2019s incumbent, is still outspendingJoe Montalto, the Democratic nominee andformer State Senator, nearly three to one.In their 32-day pre-general election financial disclosure reports filed with the StateBoard of Elections for the July 12 to Sept. 29period, Mega%u2019s two campaign committees,Friends of Chris Mega and Mega SenateClub,^ report total campaign costs of%u00abuyiCi.25 and Ivluiiutiio's sole committee,Friends of Joe Montalto, report costs of$30,391.11.The current expenses are far less than theamounts spent in 1984 when Montalto, running as the incumbent and with the help ofthe State Democratic Committee, spent approximately $150,000. The State RepublicanComittee poured nearly one-third of its directmail budget into Mega%u2019s campaign, whichcost a reported $350,000.This year, contributions from the GOPState and County Committees remain large,but do not come near to the amounts spent in1984, with $3,000 coming from the RepublicanPolitical Action Committee and $2,500 fromthe New York County GOP organization.Mega has also been able to rely on severallaw enforcement political action committeesthat support his position as Chairman of theSenate Crime and Corrections Committee.The Law PAC of New York has donated$2,000 and the New York Parole OfficersAssociation has given $125.Montaito%u2019s major contributors includenotable Democratic leaders and the StateSenate Democratic organization. WestBrooklyn Congressman Steve Solarz hasgiven Montalto one of his largest donations,$1,000. The New York State Senate CampaignCommittee has contributed $500 andHeights/Carroll Gardens/Bay RidgeAssemblymember Eileen Dugan donated$60.For Mega, his two largest expenses appearto be the printing of flyers from the New YorkState Republican Committee Direct Mailprogram and costs of renting and maintaining his Bay Ridge storefront campaign headquarters. Mega Daid the GOP State Committee $5,590.44 for the mailings and laid out$5,189.65 for the storefront.Montalto spent most of the $13,077.85recorded for the period on printing and stationery expenses. %u2014R.T.O cto b er 3 0 ,1 9 8 6 , T H E P H O E N IX , Page 35