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B r o o k l y n .m e O u r m o n t h l y s e c t i o nON BROOKLYN BUSINESS%u2022Dime Savings Bank Votes To Go Public %u2022Congressmen Talk Tax ReformNavy Y ard G A n U pdate 0ft Hr Hr ft- *; LH i-'d 3 0 !y.rS %u2022< H%u25a0 n> -< v ;%u2018M V i .1 >ntsREFERBROOKLYN PUCity Unveils ParkRenovation Plansfidlinced From The Ballot, TwoAssemblymen Are Fighting BackBY ROB TAYLORDespite the passage o f a number o f controversialbills at the recent State legislative session in Albany,local Brooklyn delegates say that many critical issuesstill need attention before they call their work successful.The Brooklyn delegation is the largest and mostpowerful in Albany with 19 Dem ocratic and noRepublican representatives in the 150-memberAssem bly, not to mention the authority o f theAssembly speaker, Stanley Fink o f Canarsie, andone Republican in the 61-member Senate ~~ roughly13 percent o f both chambers.B ut, with legislative actions that included a $41.5billion State budget, the establishment o f a publicpower authority that could take control o f the LongIsland Lighting Company (LILCO) and a packageo f new liability insurance laws, dissatisfaction is stillexpressed by State Senators and Assemblymem bersbecause some U1 tiicii pcisuiuu auu uisuici piiviiucawere not part o f the succession o f bills passed.%u201c Generally, m ost o f the work happened in thelast few weeks o f the session,%u201d says AssemblymanAlbert Vann o f Bedford-Stuyvesant%u2019s 56th A .D .,who is also chairman o f the Committee on Childrenand Fam ilies. %u201c 1 was glad to see all the work thatwe did through, but we still have a lot o f things toexam ine.%u201dAccording to Assemblyman Joe Lcntol o fW illiam sburg/GreenpoinVFt. Greene%u2019s 50th A .D .,the amount o f work %u201c surprised%u201d many members.%u201c We passed a lot o f Mils that we didn%u2019t think werepossible at the begining o f this year,%u201d he says. Lentol, a seven-term member o f the State Assem bly, isdisappointed that som e o f the bills he had introduced (fid not %u201c get to the Assem bly floor to be aired.%u201dN ot surprising, m ost Brooklyn members o f thelegislature blame the Republican-controlled StateSenate for their legislative problems.%u201c The Republican-controlled Senate is not sensitiveto the needs o f New Y o rk City o r the needs o f thepoor or low-incom e,%u201d says State Senator Martyc o n r n x w h o se u is u i c i h te iu u c a B iu u k iy u Iiti& itio ,Williamsburg and Greenpoint and parts o f Manhattan and Staten Island. Connor is the Senate%u2019s AssisContinued on Page 4BY ROB TAYLORTwo veteran Brooklyn legislators were ruledo ff the September Dem ocratic Party PrimaryElection ballot last week by New York StateSupreme Court judges. And a controversy overwho is responsible has the Assem blym em bers,Albert Vann and Roger Green, charging theKings County Dem ocratic Party organizationand %u201c fat cat election attorneys%u201d are to blame.Party officials, however, call the charges %u201c pureparanoia.%u201dTwo separate court decisions invalidated theDem ocratic Party nom inating petitions o f thetwo incumbent state legislators because o f errorsin the summary or cover sheets on the petitionsthey subm itted. On August 7, G reen, whorepresents the Ft. G reene/D ow ntow n 57th A .D .,was removed from the ballot in a ruling byJustice Joseph Slavin. Vann, who represents theBedford-Stuyvesant 56th A .D . for sim ilarreasons by Justice Irving Rader.Both rulings were based on a 1985 Court o fAppeals decision, The M atter o f Pecoraro vs.M ahoney, and were related to a failure to stateseparately how many signatures were on the accom panying petitions for each o f the candidatesthey were seeking to place on the ballot. TheResidents challenging petitions pore over the rolls ofregistered voters looking for fraud or errors. (Phoenix/TaylorPhoto).same ruling elim inated Anthony LaBella fromthe Assem bly primary in the W est Brooklyn52nd A.D'. All three o f the elim inated candidatesare appealing the rulings.Assemblymembers Vann and Green, both partContinued on Page 6S im p ly D iv in e In The H e ig h tsRev. Henry Ward Beecher IsCelebrated By The BrooklynHistorical Society, Page 7W ill The RealB eecher S tand Up?Two Opposing Views O f HisContributions. Pages 8 and 9Carroll Gardens Residents Got ALook At The Fix-Up Planned ForTheir Park, Page 3Accusations InAssembly ContestCandidates LaBella and DuganSpar In Pre-Election InterviewsAs Primary Nears, Page 3