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p o R the R ecord NEWS O f THE POLITICAL SCENEThe Day After Shows No Change In The People Who Represent BoroBY ROB TAYLORWith voter turnout in last week%u2019s general election about half of what it was in 1984, a Presidential election year, all the incumbents in Downtown Brooklyn districts were easily returned to office. Borough President and County Democratic Leader Howard Golden says he was satisfied with %u201cnearly%u201d all the results from Tuesday%u2019s voting, but was disappointed with the unofficial outcome of the Slope/Bay Ridge 23rd Senate District race between incumbent GOP Senator Chris Mega and Democratic insurgent, Joe Montalto.%u201cWe put a large effort in Montalto%u2019s campaign, so obviously I wasn%u2019t satisfied with the results,%u201d says Golden, referring to the GOP 1,600 vote margin for Mega after unofficial tallies.Ft. Greene Assemblymember Roger Green and Bedford-Stuyvesant Assemblymember A1 Vann also found themselves in an unusual predicament as both were Liberal Party candidates, running for re-election without their traditional Democratic nominations. But, both won reelection with roughly 65 percent of the votes cast.For Golden, the results of last week%u2019s election makes the task of %u201cdoing things for Brooklyn easier.%u201d Over the year he has tried to patch together the borough%u2019s fractured Democratic organization under his leadership. %u201cI think we have a working relationship going now with strong units in the State Assembly and State Senate, as well as in the City Council,%u201d he says.Following are local unofficial results in last week%u2019s general election voting:U.S. CONGRESS10th Congressional District: Park Slope Rep. Chuck Schumer received an overwhelming victory with 74,505 votes. His Conservative opponent, Alice Gaffney, tallied 5,481 votes. There was no GOP contender.11th Congressional District: NorthBrooklyn Congressmember Ed Towns easily won re-election with 40,295 votes. Republican Nat Hendricks pulled in 4,414 and Conservative Alfred Hamel received 867. This was a rematch of the 1984 race and the results, despite a higher voter turnout, were basically the same.12th Congressional District: With 40,666 votes, Rep. Major Owens won re-election to athird term from this central Brooklyn Congressional District. GOP opponent Owen Augustin took 2,833 votes and the Right-toLife candidate, Joe Caesar, tallied 1,160.13th Congressional District: West Brooklyn Rep. Steve Solarz was re-elected with 58,962 votes. His GOP opponent, Leon Nadrowski, took the most votes of any Republican Congressional contender in Brooklyn, 10,603. Conservative Samuel Roth pulled 2,094 votes. Two years ago, Solarz ran against Republican Lew Levin, who managed to poll roughly 37 percent of the votes cast. The combined results in this year%u2019s election of the GOP and Conservative candidates showed a severe drop in support, to roughly 14 percent, for right-oriented candidates in the 13th C.D.STATE SENATE21st Senate District: Democratic incumbent Marty Markowitz easily beat his Republican opponent, Donella Jackson, 19,547 to 2,182, in this Crown Heights/Flatbush district.22nd Senate District: With no GOP opponent in this Bedford-Stuyvesant/Boerum Hill/Red Hook district, incumbent Democrat State Senator Velmanette Montgomery scored 96 percent of the vote, or 27,808, over he Conservative opponent, Joe Leopoldi, who tallied 1,023.23rd Senate District: The official verdict is still out in this Slope/Bay Ridge State Senate race because the Democratic challenger and former State Senator, Joe Montalto, has asked that the voting booths be impounded for inspection. Unofficial returns show Chris Mega, the incumbent GOP senator, taking 26,340 votes and Montalto trailing with 24,755. Despite the impoundment, Mega has declared victory and, even with the addition of absentee ballots, it looks as if Mega won this third re-match for the two candidates.25th Senate District: IncumbentDemocratic State Senator Martin Connor took 28,175 votes in this tri-borough districtthat includes Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg and parts of lower Manhattan and Staten Island. GOP candidate Pat Kearney polled 7,717 votes.STATE ASSEMBLY44th Assembly District: 16-year veteran and Democratic incumbent Mel Miller took roughly 80 percent of the votes cast, 14,464, in this Slope/Flatbush A.D. His GOP opponent, attorney Steve Millus, tallied 3,202 votes. Miller now plans to go back to Albany to seek the Assembly Speaker%u2019s post being vacated by retiring Canarsie Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink.50th Assembly District: Seven-term incumbent Democrat Joe Lentol was re-elected with 9,132 votes in this Ft. Greene/Williamsburg/Greenpoint district. GOP candidate Rita I^ayden took 1,469 votes and Conservative contender Iinda Kupidlowski received 408. %u201951st Assembly District: IncumbentDemocrat Jim Brennan was re-elected to a second term from this Slope/Windsor Terrace district with 11,293 votes. His GOP opponent, Sigmund Ruzycki, polled 2,415 votes and Conservative candidate Mabel Marion received 615.52nd Assembly District: Democratic candidate and three-term incumbent Eileen Dugan defeated her Republican opponent, Diane Picucci, by a 2 to 1 margin in this Heights/South Brooklyn/Bay Ridge district. Dugan, whose political base is in Carroll Gardens, has worked hard at the Bay Ridge end of the district and took the Bay Ridge election districts with 51 percent of the ballots cast in this race. She has also reported that %u25a0 she took her challenger%u2019s home election district, 119 to 105.56th Assembly District: BedfordStuyvesant Assemblymember A1 Vann won re-election as the Liberal Party nominee with 8,264 votes. Democratic candidate Robert Hunter received 4,120 votes and GOP contender Adrienne Bramwell took 635.57th Assembly District: Incumbent Ft. Greene Assemblymember Roger Green won re-election in this district as the Liberal Party candidate with 8,233 votes. His Democratic opponent, Stanley Frere, tallied 4,407 and the Republican candidate, college student Joe Voyticky, had 760 votes.Green And Cuomo Big Winners In BrooklynIn races for state-wide office this year, Brooklyn voters voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic candidates, with Governor Cuomo gaining a vote margin of five to one over his GOP opponent, Andy O%u2019Rourke, 251,370 votes to 64,189.Similar results were seen in the U.S. Senate race between GOP incumbent A1 D%u2019Amato and Democratic insurgent Mark Green. In the borough, Green received 175,203 ballots to the 127,156 for D%u2019Amato. Green had campaigned heavily in Brooklyn and despite D%u2019Amato upswings in the Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Beach and44th A.D. (Slope/Flatbush)50th A.D. (WiUiamsburg/Fort Greene)51st A.D. (Slope/Sunset Pk./Windsor Terr) 52nd A.D. (Heights/So. Bklyn./Bay Ridge) 56th A.D. (Bedford-Stuyvesant) %u202257th A.D. (Ft. Greene/Clinton/Boerum Hill)Greenpoint Assembly Districts, Green came out the clear winner.In the race for State Attorney General, Robert Abrams, the incumbent Democrat, beat Peter King, the Republican challenger, hands down, 217,641 to 53,695. Herman Badillo, the Democratic challenger in the State Comptroller race against incumbent Republican Ed Regan, also managed a substantial victory, 178,565 to 95,755.The following are the results in the Governor and U.S. Senate races in Downtown Brownstone area Assembly Districts:GOVERNOR U.S. SENATECuomo O%u2019Rourke Green D%u2019Amato15,689 4,096 13,206 7,03610,074 3,383 6,646 6,69212,449 4,427 8,845 7,16117,894 6,795 12,747 11,06212,228 895 8,500 2,39612,925 1,196 10,516 2,218Central Brooklyn Dems Honor Montgomery And Others A t DinnerBY ROB TAYLORAfter the demands of an election season, the members of most political clubs usually want to go home, crawl into bed, and forget about the hours they spent at polling sites and on telephones talking about their candidates. But, a group of devotees from the 51st Assembly District%u2019s Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats gathered just three days after the general election at Imatra Hall in Sunset Park for a club fundraiser honoring State Senator Velmanette Montgomery and a final hurrah until the club members are again called into service.General elections are taken seriously by New York%u2019s Democrats despite the overwhelming number of registered Democrats in the city who normally vote against GOP candidates. For the CBID, its fundraiser,also coincided with the formal re-elections of three candidates the reform club had supported through the recent election season, including: Montgomery, Slope/Windsor Terrace Assemblymember Jim Brennan and South Brooklyn Congressman Chuck Schumer.To celebrate, the newly re-elected officials descended on the club fundraiser for a rowdy, sometimes exuberant party, with Schumer chirring on the festivity and shedding the seriius facade of a public official.It vas one of the few political events left this year and elected officials, their friends and families dutifully turned out, coming from all over the city. Manhattan City Councilmember Ruth Messinger arrived and said, %u201cNo other Manhattan politician has a passport to come over here.%u201d She was wrong, however, because Manhattan State Senator f ranz Leicnter also managed io cross the Brooklyn Bridge for the event.Locally, Bay Ridge City Councilmember Sal Albanese, Heights/South Brooklyn/Bay Ridge Assemblymember Eileen Dugan,State Senator Velmanette Montgomery isintroduced by Central Brooklyn Independent Democrat President David Lansner atthe event honoring Montgomery. Below,Assemblym ember Jim Brennan reminiscesabout the recent general election during thefundraiser. (Phoenix/Taylor Photo)Slope/South Brooklyn City Councilmember Steve DiBrienza, and 52nd A.D. Democratic District Leader Joan Millman all stopped by to talk about the recent political events.In addition to Montgomery, the CBID listed several other honorees, all representatives from the wide spectrum of political activists that worked with the club this year. The Rev. Finlev Schaef of the Park Slope Methodist Church, and his wife Nancy, a documentary film maker, were honored for their outreach to the homeless and their concern about American foreign policy toward Nicaragua. David Cantrell, the founder and president ofGay Friends and Neighbors, was honored for creating the social network for Brooklyn%u2019s gay community. And, Heather Lewis, the copresident of the P.T.A. at P.S. 107 in Park Slope, was honored for her efforts on behalf of the children at the school.There had reportedly been some concern about the decision to honor Cantrell, but Brooklyn%u2019s gay political activists had been very helpful in this year's campaign ana tne reform club finally decided that they needed to thank all the supporters from this year%u2019s efforts, parents, gays and social activists alike.For Montgomery, the fundraiser was an opportunity to introduce her family to her political friends. Her parents came from Texas and her husband of ten months, Bill Walker, came to see her in action at what she called %u201ca family reunion.%u201d%u201cPeople told me they never heard me talk about any other man except Jesse Jackson, but this year as you can see, I did a lot of things,%u201d said Montgomery, who is pregnant and expecting her first child in two months. %u201cAnd, I also got married as well.%u201dFinley and Nancy Schaef said they accepted their invitation on behalf of their church. From their congregation, a great deal of local attention has been placed on American foreign policy toward Central America.%u201cThe people of Brooklyn have decided they want to become a sister city,%u201d said Nancy Schaef, who told the club she had grown up in Queens and never thought about living in Brooklyn until she married Schaef. %u201cBut, today I%u2019m proud to live in Brooklyn.%u201d The Sister City project with San Juan de Rio Coco, Nicaragua is not an official borough project, but the CBID has endorsed it and many members would like to see it become official.For most of the guests, the dinner party was a chance to relax and breathe easily after the campaign ended. Most sat back and talked about Governor Cuomo%u2019s overwhelming victory and the sadness of Joe Montalto%u2019s defeat in his bid for State Senate in the Bay Ridge 23 Senate District seat now held by a Republican.Schumer summed up the recent election results that not only saw the re-election of Diookiyu ueiuuiTais, o u i also iu in e u iiie U .S .Senate over to the Democratic Party%u2019s control. %u201cThere%u2019s a light at the end of the tunnel, now,%u201d he said, %u201cand I think we all have something to celebrate tonight.%u201dNovember 13, 1986, THE PHOENIX, Page 35