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i i 4 i I Campaign '81 -2 F- 1 Frank J. Dodd jjP i s- Barbara W. Mc Connell Anthony Imperiale James H. Wallwork John K. Rafferty Herbert Buehler bert A Roe Kenneth A.

Gibson UJ llljf i i jajj ffi it -f Lawrence F. Kramer Joseph A. Sullivan John J. Degnan Stella E. Mann William J.

Hamilton Ann Klein Thomas F.X. Smith 'Richard Mc Glynn Barry T.Parker Thomas H. Kean the candidates for governor Thomas F. X. Smith Smith, 54, has been mayor of Jersey City since 1977.

He worked for 10 years as an administrator at St. Peter's College before serving as city clerk for Jersey City for eight years. Smith is married and lives with his wife in Jersey City. They have two grown daughters. eet The following are brief sketches of the gubernatorial candidates, listed by party in alphabetical order.

Democrats Herbert Buehler Buehler, 54, a former Oean Township teacher and councilman, served one term in the state Senate. He also serves as chairman of the Save-Our-Port Committee, a bi-state coalition of business, labor and government agencies concerned with balancing environmental and economic interests in the Port of New York and New Jersey. Buehler, his wife, and two teen-age sons live in the West Allenhurst section 13 Democrats seek nomination Kramer is married and lives with his wife and three children in Paterson. Riehard B. McGlynn McGlynn, a lawyer, has served as assistant Essex County prosecutor, assistant deputy public defender, a Superior Court judge and a state Board of Public Utilities commissioner.

McGlynn, 42, lives with his wife and three children in Short Hills. Sen. Barry T. Parker Parker, R-Burlington, was elected to the Assembly in 1966 and became speaker of the house in 1971. He moved in 1972 to the Senate, where he currently serves as minority leader.

Parker, 48, is a lawyer and has served as counsel to the Burlington County Bridge Commission. He lives with his wife and two children in Mount Holly. John K. Rafferty Rafferty has served as fulltime mayor of Hamilton Township in Mercer County since 1974. A former township committeeman, he ran unsuccessfully in 1971 for an Assembly seat.

For a time last year, he headed Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign in New Jersey. Rafferty, 42, lives in Hamilton Township with his wife and two children. Joseph A. Sullivan "Bo," a millionaire, is president of Bomont Industries, a Totowa firm that manufctures ribbon substrates for information processing industries. Last year, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, his first political post.

He is currently in his third year as finance chairman of the Essex County Republican Committee. Sullivan, 43, lives in Essex with his wife and four sons. Sen. James H. Wallwork Wallwork, R-Essex, was elected twice to the Assembly and has served in the Senate since 1968.

He is vice president of Wallwork a heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration wholesale and distribution business. Wallwork, 50, lives in Short Hills with his wife. They have one daughter. She lives in Morristown and has two grown children. Stella E.

Mann Ms. Mann, 51, has been a Union school teacher for the past 23 years. She is a member of the New Jersey Education Association and the National Education Association. Ms. Mann is unmarried and lives in North Caldwell.

Barbara W. McConnell Assemblywoman Barbara W. McConnell, D-Hunterdon, has served in the Legislature since 1978. She was vice chairman of the New Jersey delegation to the Democratic National Convention last year. She lives in Delaware Township in Hunterdon County with her daughter.

Sen. Joseph P. Merlino The Mercer County Democrat, a lawyer, has spent 14 years in the Legislature and was the first man to serve four consecutive years as Senate president. Merlino moved from the Assembly to the Senate in 1971 and rose through the Senate ranks to become president in 1978. Merlino, 58, is married and lives in Trenton with his wife and the two youngest of their five children.

Rose Monyek Mrs. Monyek, 51, has been a Railway housewife for the past 20 years. In 1978, she filled the vacancy on the Rahway City Council. She ran as an independent for a state Senate vacancy in 1979 and lost. Last year, she ran for the House of Representatives and won the Democratic nomination but lost to Rep.

Matthew W. Rinaldo in the general election. Mrs. Monyek is married and lives in Rahway with her husband and three children. Rep.

Robert A. Roe Roe was first elected to Congress in 1969 and has been re-elected six times. He was the state's commissioner of Conservation and Economic Development from 1963 to 1969. In 1977, Roe, 57, was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, finishing second to Gov. Byrne in a field of 10.

He is a bachelor and lives in Wayne. While Senate president in 1974 and 1975, he also served periodically as acting governor. Dodd was cited by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers in 1972 and received an honorary law degree from Seton Hall. He lives in West Orange. Rep.

James J. Florio Florio served three terms in the state Assembly. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1972. He won the congressional race in 1974 and resigned from the Assembly. Four years ago, as a second-term congressman, he challenged Gov.

Byrne unsuccessfully for the party's nomination. Florio, 43, lives with his wife and three children in Runnemede. Kenneth A. Gibson Gibson, 49, has been mayor of Newark, the state's larget city, since 1970. A one-term president of the U.

S. Conference of Mayors, he also has served as vice president of the United Community Corporation, Newark's anti-poverty agency. Gibson is a licensed professional engineer. He once worked for the state Department of Transportation, Newark Redevelopment and Housing Authority and Newark Bureau of Buildings. Gibson and his wife live in Newark's Central Ward.

They have three adult daughters. Sen. William J. Hamilton Hamilton, D-Middlesex, a former Assembly speaker, has spent 10 years in the Legislature. He served as assistant and then first assistant U.

S. Attorney in Florida from 1962-67. Hamilton, 48, is chairman of the Senate Institutions, Health and Welfare Committee. A native of New Brunswick, he lives there with his wife and four children. Ann T.

Klein Mrs. Klein. 57, is the former commissioner of the state Department of Human Services. She served in the Assembly from 1971 to 1973 and was president of the New Jersey League of Women Voters for two terms. Mrs.

Klein finished second to Byrne in the 1973 gubernatorial primary. of Ocean Township. He also has three grown children. John J. Degnan Degnan, in 1978, became the state's youngest attorney general at 33.

Prior to that, he served as executive secretary and counsel to the Gov. Byrne. Degnan, 36, is a graduate of Harvard Law School. A native of Essex County, he now lives in Princeton with his wife and three children. Sen.

Frank J. Dodd "Pat" Dodd, D-Essex, is a former assemblyman and 14-year veteran of the Legislature. Dodd, 43, a millionaire bachelor, chairs the Senate Energy and Environment Committee. Gibson is pushing for a more graduated income tax and an equalized land-based property tax to distribute the tax burden more equitably. Hamilton has proposed a detailed plan to help businesses.

It includes a rollback of the corporate business tax, elimination of the net worth tax and allowing loss carryovers. The plan is similar in some ways to those advanced by several candidates for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. HAMILTON SAYS no new taxes or tax increases are immediately needed. But if additional revenue is ultimately required, he says he would have "no problem" backing a more progressive income tax. Mrs.

Klein has suggested building a state-owned and operated casino in the Meadowlands to compensate for the anticipated loss in federal aid. She also has proposed cutting the sales tax to four percent, but she would extend it to white collar professionals such as lawyers and architects. If money is short, she says she would not shy away from proposing new or higher taxes. But she says the public first must be convinced government is being run as efficiently as possible. Mrs.

McConnell says she would support a more graduated income tax if more money is needed for "humane and necessary" services. Echoing Mrs. McConnell's sentiments, Merlino says he could favor a more graduated income tax but only if it's tied to further reductions in property taxes. HE SAYS he wants the state to assume half the cost of local education to reduce the property tax burden. The Senate president has also called for phasing out the corporate net worth tax and increasing state aid and tax abatements to small businesses.

Roe, too, has proposed additional tax abatements and other benefits to lure industry into the cities and says he, as governor, would review all of New Jersey's tax laws. When he ran unsuccessfully for the party nomination four years ago, Roe said the state income tax contained "many inequities" and recommended it be allowed to expire. (The Legislature voted the following year to make the tax permanent.) At the time, he proposed a tax convention to offer suggestions for raising revenues which, in turn, would be submitted to the voters for approval. Smii says he would cut services before raising taxes. Republicans Assemblyman Anthony Imperiale Imperiale, of Newark, is a former Newark councilman serving his second term in the Assembly.

He was elected to the Assembly in 1971 and to the Senate in 1973 as an independent. He lost his Senate seat in 1977. In 1974, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Newark. Imperiale made an aborted run for governor in 1977 as an indeendent. He became a registered Republican in 1978.

Imperiale, 49, lives in the Forest Hills section of Newark's North Ward with his wife. They have five children. Thomas H. Kean Kean, a New Jersey Highway Authority Commissioner and millionaire businessman, was elected to the Assembly in 1967. In 1972, he became Assembly speaker and two years later became minority leader.

Kean entered the 1977 gubernatorial primary and lost the party nomination. He directed Gerald R. Ford's presidential campaign in New Jersey in 1976. Kean, 45, lives with his wife and three children in Livingston. Lawrence F.

Kramer "Pat" Kramer, 47, four-term mayor of Paterson, New Jersey's third largest city, served as state commissioner of Community Affairs under former Gov. William T. Cahill from 1971 to 1974. Prior to being elected mayor in 1966, he was secretary-treasurer and general manager of his own building supply firm in Paterson. He was the first chairman of the Meadowlands Development commission, overseeing the initial development of the sports complex and surrounding region.

exemptions and payment thresholds to the Consumer Price Index to keep inflation from driving those taxes up. Other economic recovery plans include Wallwork 's proposal to free Port Authority of New York and New Jersey money to fund mass transportation. He also would reduce the regulations that state government imposes on business a position supported to some degree by all the GOP candidates. Only McGlynn has called for a cap to the utility gross receipts and franchise taxes by linking them to services rather than company revenues. OTHER PROMINENT campaign positions include: Imperiale reduce the role of the Department of Environmental Protection in regulating business and manufacturing.

Kean Reduce the number of state employes by 10 percent and impose a' "sun From page 1 penalty but would sign into law a bill reinstating it because he feels the public supports it. Most candidates oppose prohibiting the sale or possession of handguns in New Jersey, saying federal, not state, control is needed. Only Merlino, Mrs. Klein and Roe support the concept of a state ban. All agree steps are needed to improve the state's economy and rejuvenate the cities.

But approaches vary, particularly on the thorny topic of taxation. Buehler says he would not seek any new taxes or tamper with the state income tax. He says he would try to ease environmental regulations that "stiffle the economy" and the South Jersey housing industry. DEGNAN HAS PROPOSED a one percent tax on the fair market value of crude oil refined in the state to offset federal mass transit cuts. He also has called for a one-cent boost in the cigarette tax to pay for extra local police protection.

In general, he supports streamlining government, cutting waste and reshuffling priorites. If more money is needed, he says he could support a more progressive state income tax or a statewide or regional property tax. To streamline government, he recommends abolishing the Department of State, merging the Banking and Insurance departments into the new Department of Commerce and consolidating the departments of Energy and Environmental Protection into a new department of Energy and Natural Resources. Dodd says he is "essentially satisfied" with the income tax and New Jersey's tax structure, except for the gross receipts and franchise taxes, which he believes should be frozen FLORIO, SAYS the next chief executive should concentrate on "utilizing the lessened amounts of resources in the most cost effective way possible, trying to understand the process of government so as to minimize the adverse impact of this new shift of power and attempting to utilize governmental programs to arrive at maximum services with minimum amounts of dollars." However, he has not explained how he could guarantee maximum seifioes with minimum rrpurces. GOP seeks strongest candidate Kean's plan is the most clearly modeled on Reagan's, and has been endorsed by Rep.

Jack Kemp, the author of the Kemp-Roth income tax cut plan which is an integral part of the Reagan plan. KEAN CALLED for reducing corporate income tax from the current 9 percent to 4.5 percent, eliminating the corporate net worth tax and eventually reducing the sales tax by 20 percent. Sullivan would roll back the corporate income tax to five percent, while Rafferty would support a cut to three percent. Sullivan also supports elimination of the net worth tax. Parker would repeal the latest corporate income tax increase, while creating other tax incentives to stimulate business.

Imperiale has called for repeal of the income tax and would expand the use of revenues from Atlantic City casinos to support education. Rafferty said he would link income tax set" review ot government agencies. Kramer Abolish the office of the Public Advocate and put a freeze on the hiring of state employes. McGlynn Eliminate the newly created state Commerce Department and support the growth of nuclear power. Parker Build a food distribution center in South Jersey, establish a general accounting office to oversee state spending and reduce state spending by $75 million.

Rafferty Build a South Jprsey food distribution center and set a hiring freeze on state employes. Sullivan End state mandates to local municipalities and strengthen home rule. Wallwork Eliminate the Public Advocate and the Department of Energy, drastically decentralize education policy by reducing the role of the Education Deprtment and redie the scope of tne welfare system. From page 1 Most of the candidates have called for tax cuts, particularly business taxes. But two, McGlynn and Kramer, say they find such proposals irresponsible in a primary election.

Kramer criticized Kean for his tax cut plan, calling it a blueprint for the same kind of political disaster that that many believe cost Bateman the election against Byrne in 1977. McGlynn also accused the other candidates of courting disaster, adding that he believes it to be irresponsible to call for specific tax cuts before the impact of the Reagan budget cuts are felt in the state. However the candidates supporting business tax cuts contend they are needed if New Jersey is to improve its business climate and create the new jobs to reduce crime and the welfare rolls, while at the 'same time creating greater tax revenues from increased business volume..