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it Cam! Classified 2 Asbury Park Press July 14, 1980 6Bo' Sullivan making Detroit splash f00 He acknowledged, though, that he came here a stranger to most, and said the party, the limousine and his penthouse suite were just his way of getting to know people. "It's no more than what I would do at a business convention," he said. "My background is business. I'm a salesman. "And politics is nothing more than the selling of ideas, and people." Sullivan is president of a Totowa company, started by his father in 1932, that manufactures the film and fabrics used in typewriter ribbons.

The business has sales of $25 million a year, he said, and he said he is worth "a coupla million." Politically, he said, he is a Reagan Republican, "for less government interference, more free enterprise." Government forms, reports, taxes and red tape are his company's biggest headache, he said. nessman, is here trying to make a splash so that, when this presidential year is over, he can make a run for governor in 1981. The company limousine was only his warmup. Last night, Bo threw a poolside bash at the Hyatt that set tongues wagging again, the smart crowd guessing it cost him, oh, say $25,000. (Bo wasn't saying.) The roast beef, shrimp, pastries, liquor and six-piece band seemed to be just the right tonic for delegates to a convention whose work the nomination of Ronald Reagan for president and whoever he wants for vice president lacks any real suspense.

"It's like what Nero used to do in ancient Rome," one of Bo's guests said. Greeting visitors by the potted palms, Sullivan said it wasn't true that none of the delegates knew him before. "I've been the finance chairman for the party in Essex County for two years," he said. DETROIT Tongues were wagging here when the jazzy black limousine American and New Jersey (lags flapping from the aerials pulled up in front of the Dearborn Hyatt Regency, headquarters of the New Jersey Republican delegation. "With a police escort," one delegate gushed.

"Dave Norcross must have rented it." That figured. Norcross is GOP state chairman. "Maybe it's Bob Stanley's," another delegate allowed. Maybe. Stanley, a Monmouth County, delegate, has been known to hire limousines in the post.

Bui no. Stepping out of the limousine was Joseph "Bo" Sullivan, the former Essex Fells Board of Recreation member. Or, as Republicans and reporters alike have been asking each other, Bo Who? Sullivan, a 43-year-old Essex County busk GOP striving for party unity As they arrived at the convention, several men commented on their own vice presidential prospects. Former Texas Gov. John B.

Connally said, "I'm one of the few men in America, I believe, who's not available." "I'd take it so fast it would make his head spin," said Rep. Philip Crane of Illinois. Neither Connally or Crane is anyone's list of leading prospects. That's the creed he'll espouse if he runs for governor, he said, a possibility he ers "serious" if he can line up some support. If he runs, it will be his first try for elected office.

"I was captain of the football team at -Newark Academy, that's elected," he -parried when reporters raised that subject. SULLIVAN'S PARTY drew most of the New Jersey delegation, and more than a few hangers-on, and one subject of discussion was whether an unknown but wealthy busi-nessman could "buy" the governorship. Under legislation that Gov. Byrne is about to make law, candidates for governor can get state aid for their primary campaigns (an extension of the public financing for the general election), but only if they abide by an overall spending limit of about $1 million. Candidates taking the public funds could accept no more than $800 from any private contributor, however, and spend no more than $25,000 of their own money.

Most interpret the law to permit a candidate not accepting the public financing, though, to spend as much of his own money as he wants. As might be expected when an unknown millionaire announces he wants to be governor, the rumor sped quickly around the hotel that Bo meant to spend to the limit. Perhaps belatedly, but firmly, Sullivan said that isn't so. "I haven't even thought about that. One of the tests of a candidate's viability is whether he can raise money from a broad number of sources," he said.

WILL SULLIVAN'S party help his chances? "It sure will," Monmouth County GOP Chairman Benjamin H. Danskin said. delegates know who he is now, and the media knows." Said Union County Assemblyman Charles Hardwick: "If it cost him $25,000, how much money would you have to spend on television commercials to get the kind of recognition he's getting here in one night." "He has no chance," said John Dimon, former GOP state chairman, who is touting the prospects of Senate Minority Leader Barry T. Parker of Burlington County for governor. Sullivan's party was just the first on a schedule that calls for Parker (a champagne brunch), Rep.

Matthew J. Rinaldo of Union (four breakfasts), Paterson Mayor Lawrence Kramer, Hamilton Township Mayor Jack Rafferty and former Board of Public Utilities Commissioner Richard McGlynn of Millburn Township, all gubernatorial hopefuls, to fete party members. They all stopped by to size up Sullivan, incidentally, and Kramer was credited with the best line. "Bo Sullivan can cater my inaugural ball," he said. ROBERT J.

GEARY ll v. rJJJf 1 Brock must run for office mi in i 4. II David Norcross, New Jersey Republican tries on Reagan hat in Detroit hotel. Senate Republican Leader Howard H. Baker Jr.

of Tennessee, the target of a strong conservative campaign to block his nomination, said he has told Reagan "that it is my personal preference that he choose someone else." Laxalt said he was startled by a published report that he had been eliminated and that he called Reagan aides in Los Angeles who assured him the story was incorrect. "I think it's wide open," said Laxalt. to replace Brock because of his moderate views and efforts at broadening the party through recruitment of minorities and a variety of political views, Reagan overruled them and promised Brock his job would be safe for the rest of the year at least. But when the rules came before the RNC rules committee again last Tuesday, some Brock supporters moved quietly to drop the change which would force a new election in January. When Reagan delegates noted the switch, they put the new system back into the rules when the convention's rules committee took it up yesterday.

Brock partisans did not challenge the move. A proposed rules amendment, ultimately rejected by the committee, would have created a policy council which would have met every six weeks and handled most party business down to the hiring of headquarters personnel. The council would have been dominated by regional party units and presumably more conservative than the current headquarters staff. But the Reagan lieutenants opposed it because they soon hope to be in control of the national party machinery. N.J.

delegates endorse Bush as vice president From page Al When his turn came early in the roll call, during which the delegates were asked to announce their preferences, Danskln stuck to his position, answering "Whoever Reagan wants." The "whoever" candidate received three more votes along the line. Ann D. Flynn, a Monmouth County delegate, was among the three who went along with Danskin, propelling "whoever" into fourth place. Former President Ford, former Treasury Secretary William E. Simon, who is a New Jersey resident, and Sen.

Richard G. Lugar of Indiana received two votes each. Another unknown, "any moderate," polled one vote, and Congressman Rinaldo also got one vote. There were three absentees, including Jeffrey Bell, a Mercer County delegate. Bell, the Republican candidate in the 1978 U.S.

Senate race in New Jersey, was said to be attending a reception for Kemp. Kemp is with the New York delegation, which Is based in the same hotel as New Jersey, the Hyatt Regency in nearby Dearborn. In an interview Saturday, Bell, an early Reagan supporter for the nomination for president, said he was supporting Kemp for the vice presidential spot. He said Kemp is strong on economic issues, and those issues will be decisive in the general election. "I think Bush is acceptable," Bell replied when asked for comment on the apparent choice of a majority of the New Jersey N.J.

group 'stuck' in Dearborn hotel From page Al GOP presidential, is regarded as a key figure in Reagan's efforts to unite the party in 1980. Sources close to Ford said he was urging Reagan to choose Rep. Guy Vander Jagt of Michigan or Donald Rumsfeld, who was secretary of defense during the Ford administration. Another prospect regarded as acceptable to Ford would be George Bush, the former U.N. ambassador who gave Reagan his toughest competition during the primary campaign.

The same source who named Vander Jagt and Rumsfeld, also said that the former president believes Reagan has agreed to limit his choice to someone acceptable to Ford. Ford and Reagan have a private meet-, ing scheduled for tomorrow. Another source said Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana was still a strong contender. Lugar could emerge as a compromise candidate who would be acceptable to both conservatives and moderates.

The two men favored by the conservatives were Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Rep. Jack Kemp of New York. Reagan said in an interview at his California home that choosing a running mate was "the biggest problem confronting me right now" and that he hadn't made a decision. "I am not sitting here with someone tucked away in the back of my mind, comfortably waiting for the time to reveal it," said Reagan.

"I have not made a decision and I am still gathering input." Reagan said he doesn't expect to make his final decision until late Wednesday night after a committee delegates shows up at his suite on the 69th floor of the Detroit Plaza Hotel to notify him that he has been voted the party's presidential nomination. On the eve of the convention, an Associated Press survey gave Reagan 1,692 delegates out of the total of 1,994. Bush had 168, Rep. John Anderson, now running as an independent, had 21 and 113 were uncommitted. Assured of the nomination, Reagan also was buoyed by public opinion polls showing him leading President Carter.

An Associated Press-NBC poll said Reagan was the choice of 41 percent of likely voters. Carter was supported by 27 percent and Anderson by 18 percent. In addition, Republicans also are touting surveys indicating a growing number of people now believe the GOP is better able to deal with the major issues facing the country. Bush arrived at the convention yesterday and planned formally to release his delegates today and urge them to vote for Reagan. The states should be required to elect balanced delegations, she said, not just told to "endeavor" to do so.

Democratic Party rules require balanced delegations. Mrs. Stuart, nonetheless, rejected the suggestion that women and minorities will necessarily gravitate to the Democrats. "Before a baby walks, it has to crawl," she said. "This is a new mandate for the Republicans, but I think the 1980s will be a decade of change and the party will make a concerted effort to embrace women and blacks." Mrs.

Stuart also was at the focal point of another debate within the delegation on the related issue of the platform committee's support for a constitutional amendment banning abortions and its rejection of the Equal Rights Amendment. She is a member of the committee and is part of a pro-ERA group organized by Massachusetts Rep. Margaret Heckler that expects to meet with Ronald Reagan tomorrow to elicit his views on the issue. The group, she said, hopes Reagan will make a strong statement in favor of equal rights for women, despite his opposition to the amendment Itself. It has no chance of reversing the committee on the convention floor because, first, the required one-fourth of the platform committee needed to bring a minority report to the floor cannot be mustered (the committee vote was 90-9), and second, it is clear the vast majority of delegates don't want to embarrass Reagan on the eve of his nomination.

Mrs. Stuart also opposed the amendment but said that issue "te dead." While the state delegation debated nei- The Associated Press DETROIT Republican Party Chairman Bill Brock will have to stand for re-election again in January even if he retains the office this week as the result of a rule adopted by the Republican National Convention's rules committee. The committee continued its work today, considering moves to expand Puerto Rico's voice in party affairs and grant convention seats to Republicans who live abroad. The rule would remove the chairmanship from intra-party politics by holding party elections in January of odd-number years. This means the chairman already in office when a presidential campaign begins will remain chairman through the primaries and the fall election regardless of who becomes the party nominee.

This means Brock, who comes up for reelection at the Republican National Committee next Friday, must again face re-election in January. He has the assurance of Ronald Reagan that he will be retained in office at least through the fall campaign, but some of Reagan's conservative supporters would like to oust Brock after the election if Reagan is elected president. Under the old rules, a new chairman was elected immediately after each presidential convention and was the handpicked choice of the new presidential nominee. The change is designed to make the party chairmanship more of a party job concerned with broad range of party concerns from national to state and local elections, instead of being primarily a tool of the presidential candidate. It also would relieve the chairman of the pressures which occur when there is a contest for the presidential nomination and the chairman is expected to remain neutral.

The new rule had been approved by the national committee's rules committee in April with Brock's solid support. But Brock demanded that it not apply to him and that he be subject to re-election at the convention when his current term ends. Although Reagan conservatives wanted left out ther issue, Margaret Sievewright, a Kearny delegate, drew a mild round of applause when she rose to denounce the platform stands. "It certainly seems to me that' the Republican Party is selling women down the river," she concluded. Assemblywoman Marie Sheehan Muhler of Monmouth County had said she would try to have the delegation polled on the abortion issue but, after talking to individual delegates all morning, decided to drop the effort.

"It wouldn't do any good to divide the delegation if the issue isn't going to come to the floor," she said. Mrs. Muhler said she was continuing, however, to seek out members of the platform committee willing to sign a minority report calling for the deletion of the anti-abortion plank, leaving the platform silent on the subject. The petiton would need 26 signatures, she said. From New Jersey, Mrs.

Stuart signed, but Warren County Assemblyman Donald Al-banese did not. A New York delegate, Janet Luhrs, was working with her, she said. Only if the minority plank got to the floor, Mrs. Muhler said, would she ask Norcross to poll New Jersey. Mrs.

Muhler said she believes abortion should be left to individual choice, not barred by the constitution. Mrs. Gluck, who takes the same position, said she did not know how the delegation would divide on the issue, but she was not optimistic it would vote to overturn the platform committee. "Elected officials seem to think differently about these issues than those whovsre not elected," she said. Associated Press chairman from Burlington County, After yesterday's formal poll, Donovan said he would attempt to relay the news to Reagan, Norcross said there was no way of knowing what impact the New Jersey preference vote would have, but Donovan said he believed Reagan sees New Jersey as a "critical state" in the upcoming campaign and would give consideration to its views.

Donovan was co-chairman of the Reagan primary campaign in New Jersey as well as Reagan's chief fund-raiser in the state. Hamilton Township Mayor John K. Rafferty, a Mercer County delegate, who was the other Reagan campaign chairman, voted for Bush as the runnning mate. Rafferty said the vast majority of persons he spoke to during the campaign had a "strong feeling" for Bush, who was Reagan's chief rival in New Jersey until he dropped out of the primary race in its closing days. Kemp supporters have set up a table in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency and have been distributing Kemp literature and bumper stickers to visitors.

The literature says Kemp would be "philosophically compatible" with Reagan. But then it adds, "Though a conservative, Rep. Kemp has demonstrated an appeal to Republicans all across the spectrum." A act of diplomacy during the New Jersey roll call was carried off by Robert C. Stanley a Monmouth County delegate who favored Bush but who apparently did not want to ignore Danskin's plea for a neutral stance. Stanley announced for "Bush or whoever Reagan wants." representative of the New Jersey Federation of Republican Women, called New Jersey's record on females "the worst of all the states." Mrs.

Cox Introduced a resolution that focused attention on the problem, calling on New Jersey to endorse a proposed change in the national party rules that would require every state to "endeavor" to bring delegations to the 1984 convention balanced 50-50 between men and women. Originally, her resolution was stronger, a call for the 50-50 balance to be mandatory; the "endeavor" language was only slightly stronger than guidelines already in the party rules. When Mrs. Cox's resolution was put to a voice vote to delegates and alternates the male "no's" outboomed the mix of male and female "ayes." When Norcross, chairman of the meeting, called it for the "ayes," a roll call ensued in which the "no's" faded away to about 10, versus some 50 in favor. 1 "Do I think the Republican Party does enough to recruit women to run for office and hold party positions?" Assemblywoman Hazel S.

Gluck of Ocean County asked later. "Absolutely not. The envelope-licking, bumper-sticking jobs, yes. Women are the backbone of every Republican campaign in New Jersey, including my own." Ocean County, under GOP Chairman Joseph Buckelew, she hastened to add, is the exception. "But you ought to hear some of these other county chairmen," she said.

"They were afraid to vote against an equal representation resolution in the state committee, but afterwards a lot of them were going around saying, 'Fine, but I'm not going to pick any It's got to end." N.J. Republican women feeling DETROIT So here's Detroit putting its best foot forward for the Republican national convention, and there's the New Jersey delegation stuck outside of town in a place called Dearborn, a 40-minute bus ride away if anybody knew where the bus was. But "stuck" is not the right word. The New Jerseyans are luxuriating in an 800-room, two-ballroom, 18-conference suite, three-restaurant, three-bar, and one-nightclub suburban palace, the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which is connected by a "people mover" to a huge shopping center, which is a stone's throw away from a private tennis and swim club, which charges $10 per guest just to sign the register, which is about as far removed from Detroit as a Republican delegate can get without flying home, switching to the Democratic party, and booking a room for the Jimmy Carter convention in New York next month. The Hyatt resembles a fortress designed to ward off the rest of the world.

From the outside, it's hard to tell whether it has any windows; its curved facade seems clothed in a sheet of copper. But it's probably only tinted glass, since, from the inside looking out, cars can be seen racing along a nearby freeway. Then again, maybe the cars and the freeway are only an illusion, brought on by a touch of homesickness for a typical New Jersey landscape. THE MASSIVE hotel also has an indoor swimming pool, but, unfortunately, from the point of view of swimmers, the pool falls short of grandeur. It's one of those pools conceived by architects whose mothers never let them splash beyond the kiddie pool at the local playground, and who grew up thinking pools should be round, shallow, and about the size of a big bird bath.

No one has yet learned why such architects always specialize in hotel constructon. The most striking feature of the Hyatt is its Interior lobby, which is almost as high as the 16-story building itself. An awed New Jerseyan described it as "the ultimate cathedral ceiling." A structural core in the lobby is ringed by five glass-enclosed elevators that glide up and down like futuristic space shuttles. One elevator descends almost into the laps of guests sipping drinks at a table in one of the bars; another provides express service on demand to the cocktail lounge and penthouse on the roof of the hotel. The mezzanine of the lobby leads to a platform where the "pemle mover" comes anH cmM Tun plpctriralfv-onerated.

driver- vated roadway that spans the hotel's grounds and part of the center's parking lot. Midway, the roadway divides, and one car bears right while the other bears left, and, mysteriously, never do they collide. Hotel guests can satisfy all their material needs in the shopping center without ever having to set foot on the streets of Dearn-born, never mind those of Detroit. James J. Mancini, the mayor of Long Beach Township and a delegate from Ocean County, who is attending the convention with his wife, Madeline, was among New Jerseyans who arrived Saturday and were still in Dearborn yesterday, in no rush to go into Detroit.

"We arrived last night about 9 o'clock and we had something to eat in our room," Mancini said. "We're very impressed with the hotel. We think its fantastic. It's the most beautiful hotel I've ever been in. The lobby and the elevators and all are really We haven't done too much today.

We went over to the shopping center." THE BUS TO Detroit starts out near the Sears store in the shopping center, works its way onto Michigan avenue, then makes a direct run into the city, past the World Headquarters of the Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, and then, further along, past rows of decaying commercial buildings and old Tiger Stadium where the Detroit Tigers still play their baseball games, ending at Detroit's showpiece on the Detroit River front, the Renaissance Center hotel and commercial complex. The ride costs 80 cents. One visitor who took the bus said he had no trouble getting into the city but gave up waiting for a bus to come along to take him back to Dearborn. He said a taxi ride back cost him $11 plus tip.

He said the driver offered to take him by a faster freeway route for $13, but he opted for the cheaper Michigan avenue way. New York and Pennsylvania delegates also are housed in the Hyatt Regency. John B. O'Reilly, the non-partisan mayor of Dearborn, was host at a musical entertainment for the visitors on the helicopter pad in front of the hotel yesterday afternoon. The show featured the Dearborn All-City Jazz Band.

The New Jersey delegates were faced with having to break away from their luxurious surroundings today. The first session of the convention was scheduled for 11 a.m. in Detroit's Joe Louis Arena. A chartered bus was to be on haad to whisk them ritv By ROBERT J. GEARY Press Staff Writer DETROIT When Patricia Stuart looks around at her fellow New Jersey delegates to the Republican National Convention, she can be excused for feeling out of place.

"Fellow delegates," in (act, is an apt phrase, for Mrs. Stuart, of Englewood, is one of just six women among the 66 elected to the delegation and one of just two blacks. Another 26 women and a handful of blacks (the exact number does not seem to be known to Republican officials) were among the 66 elected alternates. The lack of female and minority representation is an embarrassment to GOP State Chairman David Norcross, who has preached the necessity of broadening the party's base since he took office in 1977. -The coalition politics that went into forming the delegation the joining of Republican organization figures with Ronald Reagan campaign leaders on the Reagan slate that won all but two of the delegate seats is cited by some as an excuse for the nearly all-male, all-white group that emerged here.

nonetheless, calls the results "disappointing" and says the party must do better. Republican National Chairman William Brock also is said to be disappointed in the relatively small number of women and minority group members at the convention. Despite Brock's four-year campaign to open up the party, just 29 percent of all the convention delegates are women, down from 31 percent at Kansas City in 1976, and less than 3 percent are members of minority groups.ja slight drop fromJCansas City. At state delegationtaucus yesterday, Elizabeth Cox, an alternate delegate and a ADRIAN IIEFFERN less tram cars run back and forth on an ele-.