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Since1850.BROOKLYN OFFICES: Atlantic Avenue & Court Street %u2022 18th Avenue & 65th Street18th Avenue & 86th Street %u2022 Newkirk Plaza & Foster Avenue %u2022 MANHATTAN OFFICE:Lexington Avenue & 34th Street * BRONX OFFICE: 1416 East Avenue, ParkchesterQUEENS OFFICE: Bay Terrace Shopping Center, Bayside %u2022 NASSAU OFFICES:Hillside Avenue, East of Herricks Road, Williston Park %u2022 A&S Shopping Center,Manhasset %u2022 s u f u j u v u t - n u t : wait wnitman snopping uenter, HuntingtonMember FDIC%u20221986 independence Savings Bank Equal Opportunity LenderContinued from Page 1of the Coalition for Community Empowerment. the Rmoklvn blank political grnun helda press conference Aug. 12 at Vann%u2019s FultonStreet headquarters and expressed%u201cresentment%u201d towards the Kings CountyDemocratic Party whose powers, they said,had %u201creally gone to an absurd point.%u201d Theysaid the court rulings were based on atechnicality.Vann and Green mustered together anassortment of elected Democratic officialsfor the press conference including City Council President Andy Stein, 43rd A.D.Assemblymember Clarence Norman, andBronx State Senator Israel Ruiz andAssemblymember Jose Rivera.Stein said he did %u201cnot want to get involvedin internal wars of Brooklyn,%u201d and accuse theBorough President and Kings CountryDemocratic Chairman Howard Golden ofmisdeeds, but added, %u201cI%u2019m here to emphasizehow unfair the election law is.%u201dAlthough Vann attributes much of his problem to the Brooklyn Democratic organization, many party district leaders say that theaccusation this year is unfair. On August 4the borough%u2019s Democratic district leaderswere gathered to discuss ways to boost thecandidacy of Rep. Stan Lundine for Lt.Governor. But the proceedings were interrupted before they started by Ed Hightower,leader from Green%u2019s 57th A.D., who said hewanted to discuss what he called %u201cplantationpolitics%u201d in Brooklyn. The room was apparently cleared of the Lundine representatives for a discussion of the Vann and Greenproblems ensued.Party officials last week said that Golden,through the County Democratic organization,had offered to inspect, bind and deliver thepetitions of all the party%u2019s incumbents to theBoard of Elections.%u201cI defend Howie Golden this tim e,%u201d saidJoni Yoswein, district leader from the 44thA.D. of Flatbush and Park Slope. %u201cAt othertim es I have not. I felt badly that they did notfile their petitions properly. There have beenother tim es that the county needed a kick inthe pants, but this wasn%u2019t one of them.%u201dYoswein, who assisted State Senator MartyMarkowitz in his campaign last year forborough president against Golden, said shetold Hightower that she had still taken herpetitions to the County Democrats for theirinspection, though she did not trust theorganizational enough to leave them overnight.Despite the advice, Vann maintains thatthe County Democratic organization shouldhave contacted all the elected lawyers and letthem know that a change had been made inthe law. %u201cIt%u2019s unfortunate that the leadershipof this County does not want to cooperate withBlack people,%u201d he said. %u201cKeep in mind, therehas been a constant battle with the Countyorganization. One would have to be stupid toturn over petitions to the ones you%u2019ve battled.The petitions are our life blood.%u201d%u201cIt just so happens that everyone close tothe county leader got the information,%u201d helater added, %u201cand we did not.%u201dWith Vann attacking the BrooklynDemocrats at the press conference, Green introduced a more visual and, at least on thesurface, immediate reason for the legal casesfiled against the two legislators%u2019 petitions.%u201cFat cat election attorneys are benefiting5%u201c ~T%u201c %u201c %u2014A AL > 11 Vt A iiU lii U1U at UiC CA|A.IMV v i MIV |#uwuv,said.Indeed, the scene at State Supreme Courtsupports Green%u2019s statement. With eletionlawyers running up and down the corridorstrying to make sure they appeared at all thehearings, lawyers%u2019 services were obviously inpeak demand. One lawyer, Robert Muir, wasresponsible for nine cases involvingDowntown Brooklyn area candidates. Muir,who represented toe successful plaintiffs inboth toe Vann and Green cases, also has beenI defend Howie Golden thistime. There have been othertimes that the Countyneeded a kick in the pants,but this wasn*t one of them.representing Roy Innis, the former Chairman of toe Congress on Racial Equality whois running against Central Brooklyn Congressm an Major Owens. The most recentfinancial disclosure statement filed by AbeHirschfeld, a candidate for Lt. Governor,reported a $10,000 retainer fee to Muir aswell.%u201cSome of toe lawyers charge $250 perhour,%u201d said Green who called toe problem a%u201cm isuse of resources of those not alignedwith the status quo.%u201dA decision by toe Appelate Court Divisionof the State Supreme Court is not expectedfor several weeks, said Vann%u2019s attorney,Esmeralda Simmons. With the primary election less than one month away, both Vann andGreen are also candidates for toe LiberalParty nomination. In 1980, Vann won theNovember general election as a Liberal candidate.%u201cThere is no question in my mind thatwhen we have to do toe impossible we can,%u201dsaid Vann referring to a possible Liberal Party candidacy.Accusations In 52ndContinued from Page 3of what he says is Dugan%u2019s lack of concern.La Bella has also come close to accusingDugan of turning her eyes away from cracksales in her neighborhood.Criticizing Dugan with these isuues,however, is difficult and unlikely to stick intoe election, %u201cit is a stock criticism when youhave nothing else to say,%u201d says McElhinney.%u201cCrack, for example, is a city-wide problemand is not toe fault of any one individual. It isa phenomenon that cannot be used againstEileen.%u201dDugan is also credited with her work on toeBrooklyn waterfront that has included about$20 million from toe state for her projects attoe Fishport and Pier 39.With the election less than a month away, aDugan victory will not alleviate toe conservative pressures emanating from Bay Ridge.She is expected to be challenged by BayRidge Republican Diane Piccuci in thegeneral election.Controversial Pecoraro Case Stops CandidatesIt is a strange twist of election lore, buttoe State Supreme Court rulings this yearthat have knocked two incumbents andseveral challengers off toe Democraticprimary election ballots are actually basedon a 1985 State Court of Appeals decision involving Conservative Party candidates forpublic offices in Erie iftunty.The appeal, written by toe state%u2019s highestjudicial body reversing a decision by toeAppellate Division of toe State SupremeCourt, is known as toe Matter of RussellPecoraro and Edward Mahoney. The casewas filed against three candidates who hadfiled for toe Erie County positions of sheriff,comptroller and district attorney, andcharged that toe cover sheets accompanying combined petitions of toe Conservativeslate did not properly %u201cset forth the numberof signatures for each of the candidates.%u201dThe decision rendered by toe Court of Appeals also said that it understated toe totalnumber of signatures: that several sheets ofunrelated petitions were intermingled; thattoe pages were not consecutivelynumbered; and that there were illegiblesignatures.%u201cAlthough the statute permits petitions ofseveral candidates to be joined, each candidates petition is a petition for a separateoffice, and if the joint petition consists ofmore than 10 sheets, toe cover sheet mustset forth the total number of signaturesdesignating the candidate for each officeand toe pages on which they may befound,%u201d states toe Court of Appeals decision. The court referred to an earlier decision, toe Matter of Della Cese vs. Black, inmaking that toe ruling that toe Erie Countypetitions were invalid.The Vann and Green petitions were invalidated in Brooklyn Supreme Court lastweek for exactly this reason. Green, who isrunning on a slate with his two DemocraticDistrict Leaders, Ed Hightower and RubyNottage, and Vann, who is running for bothAssembly and for Democratic DistrictLeader with Annette Robinson, failed toseparately specify toe volume numbers, thenumber of pages and toe number ofsignatures, for each candidate running onm m hinixl iw tilinneThe case also resem bles toe Erie Countydecision in another way. Just like lastweek%u2019s Brooklyn decisions, it was the lowerlevel courts that initially ruled the ErieCounty candidates%u2019 petitions invalid. %u2014R.T.6, THE PHOENIX, August 14,1986