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U. S Secretary O f Education %u2713 l / V %u201d '* \\W r y * W ^ * \%u2014 - w *r %u2022%u2022 w %u2014r Gives B OOP A Lesson In Politics:BY ROB TAYLORAlthough New York State Republicansseem to be getting little support from theirNational Commitee in Washington, D.C. during this year%u2019s races for State offices, theWhite House did manage to send a littlemoral support Sept. 18 to Brooklyn%u2019s fledgling GOP.U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett may not have been the secret weaponlocal Republicans had been hoping would arrive from Washington, but at a fundraiser atthe Brooklyn Club held that evening for theGOP%u2019s candidate for governor, AndrewO%u2019Rourke, Bennett, who was born in thisborough, brought some hope to the localline-up of party candidates.While Bennett did not pretend to have greatdepth of knowledge about the Brooklyn GOPscene %u2014 he himself was a registeredDemocrat until recently %u2014 his position asU.S. Secretary of Education did underscoresome of the points local conservative politicians want to make in this year%u2019s election.From Bennett to Dr. Leon Nadrowski, a coordinator of O%u2019Rourke%u2019s Brooklyn campaignand himself a GOP candidate for Congress inWest Brooklyn%u2019s 13th C.D., the Republicansrailed against Cuomo%u2019s record on education.Bennett spoke briefly about the states thathe thought were doing %u201cexciting thngs ineducation.%u201d New York was not one of them.%u201cNext door, in the State of New Jersey, iswhere you see good things happening witheducation under the leadership of GovernorKean,%u201d he said, referring to the state%u2019sRepublican leader. Bennett said thatteachers without education credentialsshould be allowed to teach, merit pay shouldbe instituted in school districts rather thanacross-the-board increases and state inspector Nadrowski, who seems to set the tone forthis issue locally, says that he is seeking theparent and teacher votes in this election. Asurgeon and educator, Nadrowski says thatCuomo does not spend enough money onteacher salaries to be re-elected governor.He ignores the fact that salaries are set bymunicipal governments and that with the recent 33 percent salary increases being paid tolocal teachers, New York City itself had to askAlbany for additional money.Despite Bennett%u2019s position andNadrowski%u2019s interest in education, the cast ofRepublican politicians at the fundraiser present a variety of experience and strategiesfor this year%u2019s general election.O%u2019Rourke, present this evening without thecompany of the cardboard cutout of Cuomothat he calls his %u201cfriend%u201d %u2014 is a storyteller.His campaign talk is one of anecdotes aboutthe experiences he has had carrying the lifesize image of Cuomo around the state tryingto press his platform: more jobs, lower taxes,more drug enforcement and a death penalty.%u201cI%u2019ve never met people as strident aboutthe death penalty before,%u201d he says aboutsome of the Brooklyn people he has met during the campaign. O%u2019Rourke says he enjoyswhat he is doing and his lilting smile beliesthat he is speaking the truth. %u201cI%u2019ve run 11times before and I have been discounted sixof those times,%u201d he says. In contrast toCuomo%u2019s serious, more intellectual facade,O%u2019Rourke appears undisturbed about beingthe underdog candidate. If the State GOP hadnot been in such disarray, O%u2019Rourke mighthave been a much more credible candidate.Brooklyn Republicans have a similar problem with credibility. Strategically, theymight be going in the right direction asDuane Jackson, chairman of the BrooklynCommittee for O%u2019Rourke, explains that withall the young professionals moving into therenovated downtown brownstoneneighborhoods who are not voting, theRepublicans see a fresh start in Brooklyn.This may be a good strategy, but some ofthe GOP candidates need a face lift as well.In Ft. Green%u2019s 57th Assembly District, wherea number of young people have moved intobrownstone neighborhoods, the Republicanshave nominated 19-year-old Joseph Voyticky,as their candidate to stand against the incumbent Roger Green and Democratic nomineeStanley Frere. Voytickey, whose parentsreside in the district, gives a phone number inSchenectady, where he is a student at UnionCollege, as the place to reach him.Many of the other faces have been in thepicture before. Nathaniel Hendricks is running against Congressman Ed Towns in theNorth Brooklyn 11th C.D. and Owen Augustinis facing Congressman Major Owens in the12th C.D. One of the more interestingnewcomers is Diane Picucci, the Republicancandidate in the Heights/SouthBrooklyn/Bay Ridge 52nd A.D. who will tryto unseat three-term AssemblymemberEileen Dugan in November.With six weeks of campaigning left anddespite the odds, these GOP candidates aregoing to give the elected positions they desirea shot. They will be expending bursts ofenergy that some seasoned pols might consider futile, but growing up in a traditionallyDemocratic borough, they have developedphilosophical attachments to their conservative positions that require the candidatesto run out of a sense of duty rather than hope.%u201cIt%u2019s going fine,%u201d Voyticky said unconvincingly. %u201cI think we might have a chance.%u201dA n d y O %u2019R o u rk e (above c e n te r), b e n d s th e ear o f S e c re ta ry o f E d u c a tio n , W illia m B e n n e tt,as B o ro u g h P ark A s s e m b ly m e m b e r, A rn a ld o Ferraro, lo o k s on. B ro o klyn G O P c a n d id a te s ,b elo w , m e t e a c h o th e r at th e fu n d ra is e r fo r O %u2019R ourke. J o e V o y tic k y (le ft), c a n d id a te fo rS ta te A s s e m b ly in th e 57th A .D ., s h a k e s h a n d s w ith N a t H e n d ric k s , a c a n d id a te fo r C o n %u00adg ress in th e 11th C .D . (right) P at K earn ey, a ca n d id a te fo r S ta te S e n a te in th e 2 5 th S .D .(P h o e n ix /T a y lo r P h o to )Bay Ridge Republican Kicks O ff Assembly CampaignNow that Democratic AssemblymemberEileen Dugan has secured renomination inthe Heights/South Brooklyn/Bay Ridgedistrict, she has to turn her attention to apetite woman from Bay Ridge who says shewants to be heard.Diane Picucci, the Republican and Conservative nominee in the 52nd Assembly Districtrace, formally launched her general electioncampaign Sept. 20 at the Armand J. StaraceGOP club in her home territory of Bay Ridge.The race, which Picucci acknowledges willbe an uphill battle for her, pits two politicallyastute candidates against each other vyingfor votes from a more conservative Italianpopulation living in Carroll Gardens.%u201cI have already been going door to door inthis race,%u201d she said to a crowd of GOPvolunteers who gathered for the campaignlaunching on this Saturday morning. %u201cEileenDugan has been in Albany for sue years, and alot of people don%u2019t even know who she is. Atfirst I thought it would be difficult to makemyself known, but after beginning my campaign in June, I think I am making up for alot of those six years that I wasn%u2019t known inthe 52nd.%u201dAlthough Dugan overwhelmingly beat herRepublican opponent in 1984, Andy LaBella,the same insurgent who tried to challenge heras a Democrat in this year%u2019s party primary,Picucci wants to bring some of the sameissues to light this year. She says she wants totalk about the death penalty, toughercriminal justice system, drug enforcementContinued on Page 17Borough President Golden Sets New Agenda For Democratic CommitteeBY ROB TAYLORBrooklyn%u2019s Borough President, HowardGolden, is about to be named the newest NewYork City member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), a position he sayswill allow him to bring national attention tothe borough%u2019s economic development needs.Golden, who was re-elected to a new termas the chairman of the Kings CountyDemocratic Party on Sept. 22, says that hisappointment to the DNC comes after he hastried to forge a peace treaty between variousfactions of the borough%u2019s Democraticorganization making it possible to more easily address Brooklyn%u2019s needs.%u201cI intend to draft white papers so that thenational party will have a better understanding of what our needs are,%u201d Golden says,referring to position papers that are writtenfor national policy-making. %u201cWe are thefourth largest metropolitan area in the country and too often our needs are notunderstood.%u201dFor Golden, the news will help to consolidate his position within the borough.Beside the struggles that have taken placethis election year in the predominantly Black56th and 57th Assembly Districts in centralBrooklyn, the warming trend seems to becontinuing in relations that began earlier between the Democratic Party faction led byAnthony Genovesi of Canarsie and the majority of party members loyal to Golden.The recent Democratic Primary was a testof this peace treaty as few incumbents inBrooklyn Assembly and State Senate seatshad any party primary opposition. The surprises delivered in this otherwise quietprimary season were people who were not onthe ballot, as incumbent DemocraticAssemblymembers A1 Vann (56th AD) andRoger Green (57th AD), both removed fromthe Democratic Primary ballot by the NewYork State Supreme Court because of defectsin the preparation and filing of theirnominating petitions.%u201cThe past loyalists have come and accepted the Party%u2019s help when I offered it tothem before the primary races began,%u201dGolden says about the County Democraticorganization%u2019s offer to inspect, bind anddeliver the nominating petitions of incumbent candidates to qualify to be in theV k M m o n r n l a n t m n %u201c T K a o o m o m K o r o n r V i A A n -posed me said they would bring them in, butonly with the reservation that they wouldsupervise the process or not leave them overnight. This was fine.%u201d Golden says that Vann%u201cflatly refused%u201d the offer.Although Vann has maintained that Goldenwas behind the efforts to remove him fromthe ballot, both the facts of the process andGolden%u2019s treatment of Roger Green suggestotherwise. The Borough President has metwith Green and is now supporting his LiberalParty candidacy in the November generalelection, despite his efforts to unify the localDemocratic organization. Green will faceDemocratic candidate Stanley Frere, apolitical unknown who had challenged Greenin 1984.%u201cRoger Green is still a Democrat,%u201d saysGolden, denying that support of a Liberali Party candidate is philosophically opposed tohis duties as a Democratic Party chairman,%u201che has worked closely with the Democraticorganization and I have had very few difference with him.%u201d Golden says he will alsobe helping Green raise money for his campaign.Vann%u2019s situation appears to be different.When the 12-year veteran of the StateAssembly was removed from the Democraticballot bv the courts, he and Annette Robinsonwere also bumped from contention for reelection to their Democratic District Leaderpositions in the 56th A.D. They will be succeeded as leaders by Sylvia Fuel andRichard Taylor, who were the only candidates on the ballot and will soon be certifiedby the State Democratic Party. Golden sayshe will meet with Fuel and Taylor at thattime and then will discuss supporting RobertHunter, the Democratic candidate in Vann%u2019sdistrict.%u201cI have not met Hunter yet,%u201d says Golden,%u201cand have not decided whether I should support him.%u201dRegardless of these political obstacles,Golden says he plans to continue to try tokeep the county Democrats together.%u201cFrankly, it just makes it easier to do thingsfor Brooklyn,%u201d he says. %u201cWe have budgetissues and other priorities to focus on and wecan do a better job this way.%u201dAs the Brooklyn representative on the380-member Democratic National Committee, only one of four from New York City,Golden says that with the local party%u2019s support he will be able to more easily makeDemocrats across the country aware of theproblems the borough faces. %u201cI will holdhearings around the borough on seniorcitizens issues, on local development problems and on housing problems and bringthem before the committee,%u201d he says. TheDNC will then take the information and combine it with other studies before drafting theDemocratic platform at the 1988 NationalParty Convention.S e p te m b e r 2 5 ,1 9 8 8 , T H E P H O E N IX , P ag e 19