Democrat and Chronicle from Rochester, New York • Page 7

7A DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE. ROCHESTER. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1990 NEW YORK TERMS OF OFFICE Members of the state Senate serve terms of two years.

They are paid an annual base salary of $57,500, although most also receive more money for leadership positions. ELECTION" 1990 1 1 4 'V 1 rii if 1 -rVl Ml Robert King R-130th Susan John D-131st David Gantt D-133rd James Nagle R-135th Joseph Morelle D-132nd R. Stephen Hawley R-137th Roger Robach D-134lh Democrats capture 2 big races Incumbents hold onto their seats Democrats won two key races yesterday in Assembly districts in Monroe County. Democrat Joseph D. Morelle edged out Republican Mark S.

Ogden in the 132nd District. And Democrat Susan John beat incumbent Gary Proud, marking the first time in 14 years that the 131st District will have Tnew representation. In other Monroe County Assembly races: Assemblyman James F. Nagle easily beat Democratic challenger, Robert L. Cook.

Assemblyman David Gantt, 49, of Roch- ester beat GOP challenger Patricia Millon and Conservative candidate Mario Maz- zullo, in the 133rd District, Assemblyman Roger Robach was easily re-elected in the 134th District, defeating GOP candidate Henry Stewart. In the 137th District, Assemblyman R. Stephen Hawley defeated Right to Life candidate Gary Smith. And Assemblyman Robert L. King coasted in in the 130th crushing token opposition.

Assembly winners 130th DISTniCT WINNER: KING King King Easterly Towns Rap. Con. RTL Penfield 5.296 1.345 588 Perinton 8,066 1,861 829 Webster 5.398 1,537 811 Town totals 18,760 4.743 2,228 COUNTY Wayne 3,589 1,121 501 Total votes 22,349 5,864 2,729 Combined 28,213 Ml 2,729 Plurality 25,484 ReeulU are Incomplete and unofficial. ciarkson Pama Greece I fe-XL 137th" 1 134th ffV pittsford Perinton i 13Ist BISYfflST -HP Henrietta I ly i Wheatland 7 I. jw 135th Mendon vr 133rd DISTRICT WINNER: GANTT City Gantt Millon Mazzullo districts Dam.

Rap. Con. 20th 680 212 49 22nd 1.421 196 55 23rd 461 105 37 24th 845 218 82 25th 2,678 428 81 26th 97 50 12 28th 2,320 659 202 29th 278 54 14 City totals 8.780 1,922 532 TOWN Gates 4.442 3,845 1,148 Total votes 13,222 5,767 1,680 Plurality 7,455 Resullt are Incomplete and unofficial. 131st DISTMCT WINNER: JOHN City John Logel Proud Proud Proud Logel districts Dam. Rap.

Con. RTL Env. Tax 20th 1,449 480 958 248 91 34 21st 596 186 262 57 16 13 22nd 291 71 127 78 81 2 23rd 2,373 520 673 182 81 26 24th 2,008 520 706 157 60 27 25th 23 22 11 5 5 1 26th 775 392 498 150 60 17 28th 716 293 509 140 44 24 29th 1,015 324 905 282 90 17 City totals 9,246 2,808 4,649 1,299 528 181 TOWN Chili 3,013 3,129 1,950 421 82 117 Total votes 12,259 5,937 6,599 1,720 610 278 Combined 6,215 8,929 gg Plurality 3330 Result ar incomplete and unofficial. 132nd DISTniCT WINNER: MORELLE City Morelle Ogden Ogden Aguglia Ogden Morelle districts Dam. Rap.

Con. RTL Tax Ind. 20th 16 6 0 0 0 0 21st 3,189 2,041 388 166 79 64 23rd 375 157 37 1 7 2 24th 371 121 32 103 7 4 City totals 3,951 2,325 457 270 93 70 TOWNS Brighton 7,437 5,129 792 252 154 116 Irondequoit 10,905 7,831 1,751 579 278 241 Town votes 18,342 12,960 2,543 831 432 357 Total votes 22,293 15,285 3,000 1,101 525 427 Combined 22,720 18,810 Iff US Plurality 3,910 ResulM are mcomplata and unofficial. John kicks out incumbent Proud Democratic candidate Susan John won election to the 131st District, beating in- cumbent Gary Proud. The election of John, a 32-year-old law- yer who has never run for office before, marks the first time in 14 years that the district will have new representation.

John received 12,259 votes, while the 47-; year-old Proud, a seven-term incumbent, won a total of 8,929 votes on Conservative, independent and Right to Life lines. Republican Tracy Logel, who also ran on an independent line, got 6,215 votes. "This is not only a victory for the people of the 131st but also for all of New York," John said. "People stood up on the right to abortion and against the death penalty and for state budget reform." Proud attributed his loss to lack of mon-i ey for the general campaign, while Logel said she was hurt by Proud pulling conser- vative votes from her. John became the favorite in the race after she defeated Proud in a bitterly fought Democratic primary in September.

She campaigned on the theme that "it's time for a change," criticizing what she called Proud's lack of leadership and presenting herself as a progressive alternative. John emphasized budget reform in the general election, but she differed most sharply with her opponents on moral issues. While John is pro-choice and against the death penalty, Proud and Logel are anti-abortion and for capital punishment. Proud, who raised only about $6,000 in the six weeks following the Democratic primary, was forced to run a low-budget cam- paign in the general election. Both Proud and especially John spent heavily in the primary.

Logel, 48, a Republican committeewom-an from Chili, portrayed both John and Proud as "tax-and-spend Democrats." Proud and Logel vied for some of the "same conservative constituency, with Proud to win Republican votes by claiming Logel didn't have a chance to win. Of the 44,957 voters in the district, 19,110 are enrolled Democrat; 15,731 are Republican; 8,869 are independent; 680 are Conservative; 189 are Right to Life; and 378 are Liberal. 135th DISTRICT WINNER: NAGLE Cook Nagle Nagle Towns Dam. Rap. Con.

E.Rochester 646 1.160 182 Hamlin 805 1,298 273 Henrietta 3,781 3,650 912 Mendon 759 1.259 288 Ogden 1,800 2,641 651 Parma 1,430 2,002 580 Pittsford 2,914 4,850 1.054 Riga 458 977 202 Rush 463 542 165 Wheatland 632 801 201 Total votes 13,688 19,180 4,508 Combined 23,688 Plurality 10,000 Results are incomplete and unofficial. 137th DISTRICT WINNER: HAWLEY Hawley Hawley Smith Towns Rap. Con. RTL Ciarkson 706 137 117 Sweden 1.660 313 241 Town votes 2,368 450 358 COUNTIES Genesee 8,612 1,880 1,795 Orleans 6.328 992 891 Total votes 17,306 3,322 3,044 Combined 20,628 Plurality 17,584 Reaultt are Incomplete and unofficial. 134th DISTRICT WINNER: ROBACH City Robach Stewart Robach Robach districts Dam.

Rap. Con. RTL 26th 759 297 146 83 27th 3,519 1,609 666 223 29th 500 273 70 30 City totals 4,778 2,179 882 336 TOWN Greece 16.695 8,957 3.018 1,152 Total votes 21,473 11,138 3,900 1,488 Combined 26,861 Plurality 15,725 Remits are Incomplete and unofficial. 132nd BISTIHCT votes. Democrats outnumber Republicans in the district 2-to-l.

Gantt opposes the death penalty and favors abortion rights. He stressed that he has helped those in need by getting state money for the Sojourner House, a shelter for battered women and for Wilson Commencement Park, which will provide affordable housing for low-income, one-parent families. He also helped get computers for the Baden Street Settlement's day-care program. Gantt will head an Assembly committee that will use 1990 Census information to help redraw boundaries for the state's legislative and congressional districts. all 29 legislature seats and control of the legislature is up for grabs.

Democrats control the legislature, 16-13. Speculation is centering on three Irondequoit Democrats: Casey E. Callanan, who ran unsuccessfully for Irondequoit town justice last year; Donald A. Deming, a town board member who ran unsuccessfully for town supervisor last year; and Robert H. Quinn a town board member and clerk of the legislature.

The Assembly race originally had shaped up as a rematch of 1988, when Cooke defeated Morelle by 747 votes. But in February, Cooke surprised Republicans by announcing she was stepping down after 12 years. Ogden focused on a tax revolt theme, calling New York a "tax hell." He said in one flier that he would never vote to raise taxes, though he softened that stand when pressed. Morelle focused the most energy on his proposal to ban assault weapons, even buying a $500 semi-automatic rifle to illustrate how easily they can be purchased. Nagle re-elected by 10,000 votes Assemblyman James F.

Nagle won easily over his Democratic challenger, Robert L. Cook, by a vote of 23,688 to 13,688. Throughout the campaign, Cook, 32, of Henrietta, attacked the 62-year-old Nagle as ineffective in Albany and out of touch with people in Monroe County on issues such as abortion. Nagle, who ran on the Republican and Conservative lines, is generally against abortion but believes it is permissible in instances of rape or incest or if a woman's life is endangered by a pregnancy. Cook is pro-choice.

Although Cook focused his campaign on what he perceived as Nagle's ineffectiveness, Nagle, who lives in Pittsford, touted his 14 years representing the 135th District and his work as a leading sponsor of legislation such as the health care proxy bill. That bill, which was signed into law in June, allows people to appoint an agent to make decisions about their health care should they lose their decision-making capacity. One advantage that Nagle had was that nearly half of all voters in the district were enrolled in the GOP. Republicans outnumber Democrats in the district, 31,092 to 17,199. ers are intelligent and they don't like this kind of campaign," said Morelle, 33, of 370 Laurelton Road.

Morelle is sales manager at Cooper-Shuler a dry cleaning and laundry firm. An acting state Supreme Court justice ruled that Morelle fraudulently obtained several signatures on a petition he carried to win an independent line. The judge ruled that Morelle had failed to directly witness people signing the petition, as required by election law, and said he would have had to "just fallen from the sky" to believe Mor-elle's testimony. Morelle called it an honest mistake and countered with his own TV ad to explain that the judge ruled the petitions valid. Ogden said his ads helped him come from being a 30-point underdog to within a few points of winning.

Ogden also maintained that Morelle created a legitimate issue by lying on the stand and didn't believe voter backlash from the ad beat him. "I'm going to continue running negative ads as long as people I run against continue breaking the law," said Ogden, 27, of 107 Farmington Road, a lawyer. Ogden, who ran unsuccessfully for a Rochester School Board seat last year, promised last night to "run till I win" but said he hadn't thought about his next move. State Supreme Court Justice Joseph G. Fritsch denied a Republican request for a special prosecutor and ruled last week that District Attorney Howard R.

Relin could investigate. Relin said the investigation wouldn't be done by yesterday. Morelle's win yesterday means that Democrats must choose someone to fill his legislature seat Legislature President Kevin B. Murray makes the appointment, which must be confirmed by the legislature. The new legislator takes over Morelle's seat in January and must run next fall when Morelle narrowly wins over Ogden Democrat Joseph D.

Morelle edged Re-'publican Mark S. Ogden to take the 132nd District seat that Morelle narrowly lost just -'two years ago. Morelle, a Monroe County legislator from Irondequoit, beat Ogden 22,720 votes to 18,810 to win the seat being vacated by i Audre T. "Pinny" Cooke. Bar- bara J.

Aguglia, an 18-year-old Right to Life candidate who didn't campaign, received votes. The contest was considered a key race by both state parties. Albany Republicans be- lieved it was their toughest race for an open GOP seat, and Democrats fought to widen '-their more than 40-seat advantage in the Assembly. 1 Both major candidates traded bitter throughout the race, as Ogden ham-'mered home a "Joe Morelle committed fraud" theme in two television ads and Morelle called Ogden 's campaign the dirti-est he'd ever seen locally. Ogden supporters, including GOP Chair- man John A.

Stanwix, conceded last week "'that the fraud issue was Ogden 's only true chance of winning against the better-known Democrat who outspent him at least 2-to-l. In the end, Morelle said he believed he had been vindicated. He considered the race a referendum on negative campaigning and said voters rejected it. "I think this clearly sends a message to "candidates that they have to be leery. Vot- Robach easily wins re-election Assemblyman Roger Robach, dean of Monroe County's delegation to the state Legislature, was easily re-elected yesterday by voters in the 134th District.

Robach, 56, the Assembly's deputy majority leader in his eighth term, received 26,861 votes, compared to 11,136 for his GOP challenger, Greece lawyer Henry Stewart. During his campaign, Robach called for a rebirth of strong family units to help relieve the government of its growing role in social services, such as anti-drug programs. Stewart, a 36-year-old who has never held public office, said Robach, a Rochester resident, had to be held accountable for his role in the state's late budget and $1.8 billion in new taxes and fees this year. Democrat Gantt gets re-elected Assemblyman David Gantt, 49, of Rochester, was easily re-elected yesterday to represent the 133rd District, a position he has held since 1983. Gantt received 13,222 votes.

Republican challenger Patricia Millon, 41, of Rochester, a social worker with the Salvation Army, received 5,767 votes. Conservative challenger Mario Muzzullo, 73, of Gates, a retired insurance company owner, received 1,680 These stories were prepared by Jim Goodman, Craig Gordon, Sean McNamara, Jim On, Christine Leta Rook, J. Leslie Sopko and Vincent Taylor. i i.