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Gannett Newspapers JN Election '9 Thursday, September 17, 1998 3D Vallone calls tor debate; a Democrat backs Pataki Primary election results All results are unofficial pending the official recanvass. Rockland results I State results GOVERNOR Democratic primary 99 of districts reporting GOVERNOR Democratic primary 96 of districts reporting Vote Percent Percent Vote Peter F. Vallone 61 6,754 17 Betsy McCaughey Ross 1,955 17 Charles J. Hynes 1,887 James Larocca 563 5 end of the campaign. "He may have a lot of greenbacks, but I have a strong back, and I have a lot of human backs," Vallone said.

"I'll match every greenback he Lt. GOVERNOR Democratic primary 99 of districts reporting Sandra Frankel 53 4,747 Charles King 36 3,203 Peter Vallone 982 11 Clyde Rabideau has." to discuss issues. "Where are these jobs that you created? Why is education better? Why is life better?" Vallone asked. "Is it because of you or is it in spite of you?" "Governor, let's face each other," Vallone said. "I'll do it on your terms." Pataki fired back yesterday by traveling to Buffalo to announce his endorsement by Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello, a Democrat who was endorsed by Republicans when he won a second term last year.

Pataki has also been endorsed by the Democratic mayor of Niagara Falls. Pataki is favored to win a second four-year term, with exit polling Tuesday indicating that about half of Democrats voting in the primary thought Pataki would win. Vallone swept the Democratic primary, winning more than 2l2 times the number of votes of his nearest rival, Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey Ross.

By Kyle Hughes A lbany Bureau BUFFALO Democratic gubernatorial nominee Peter Vallone portrayed Gov. George Pataki as out of touch yesterday, more interested in fattening his own wallet by making paid speeches than creating jobs and holding down State University tuition. "Where was George Pataki and this administration?" Vallone 1 said at a campaign stop in Buffalo the morning after sweeping Tuesday's Democratic primary. "Slashing the education funds, the tuition. That doesn't make any sense." Vallone, greeted by news that Buffalo's Democratic mayor was endorsing Pataki, said he expected to raise another $4 million on top of the $4 million he had already collected.

That would give the New York City Council speaker about half as much as Pataki is expected to raise by the ATTORNEY GENERAL Democratic primary 99 of districts reporting 53 Eliot Spitzer 5,508 Catherine Abate 21 2,223 20 G. Oliver Koppel 2,093 Evan A. Davis 637 6 Vallone said Pataki's boast of creating 300,000 new jobs since taking office in 1995 hid that New York's job creation record is one of the worst in the nation. He said New York is "fighting for last place in job creation. There's no reason for this great state of ours to be lagging behind a booming national economy." Vallone also reissued a debate challenge to Pataki, offering to meet him anywhere in the state ATTORNEY GENERAL Independence Party primary 99 of districts reporting 28 58 James F.X.

Doyle Catherine Abate 20 42 STATE COMPTROLLER Independence Party primary 99 of districts reporting H. Carl McCall 117 86 Peter F. Vallone 397,486 56 Betsy McCaughey Ross 148,547 21 Charles J. Hynes 110,385 16 James Larocca 55,125 8 Lt. GOVERNOR Democratic primary 96 of districts reporting Sandra Frankel 256,461 50 Charles King 168,278 33 Clyde Rabideau 85,528 17 ATTORNEY GENERAL Democratic primary 96 of districts reporting Eliot Spitzer 266,702 41 Catherine Abate 178.840 28 G.

Oliver Koppell 140,575 22 Evan Davis 59,062 9 ATTORNEY GENERAL Independence Party primary 96 of districts reporting Catherine Abate 2,234 63 James F.X. Doyle 1,288 37 STATE comptroller Independence Party primary 96 of districts reporting H. CarlMcCall 2,747 68 Abe Hirschfeld 1,308 32 U.S. senator Democratic primary 96 of districts reporting Charles E. Schumer 367,167 51 Geraldine Ferraro 188,454 26 Mark Green 140,727 19 Eric Ruano Melendez 29,889 4 U.S.

senator Independence Party primary 95 of districts reporting Charles E. Schumer 2,374 58 Mark Green 1,738 42 U.S. SENATOR Right to Life party primary 96 of districts reporting Al D'Amato 3,717 63 Thomas A. Droleskey 2,190 37 Spitzer comes out swinging at Vacco Abe Hirschfeld 19 14 U.S. SENATOR Democratic primary 99 of districts reporting 57 Charles E.

Schumer 6,530 Geraldine A. Ferraro 22 2,546 Mark Green 19 2,149 188 2 Eric Ruano Melendez U.S. SENATOR Independence Party primary had 22 percent and Evan Davis had 9. Abate won the Independence primary against James F.X. Doyle.

Spitzer raised triple the cash of his nearest rival, 99 of districts reporting 102 66 Charles E. Schumer 34 Mark Green 53 Eliot Spitzer U.S. SENATOR Right to Life party primary 99 of districts reporting 70 88 Al D'Amato 30 37 Thomas A. Droleskey courthouse by three lawyers who formerly worked for the attorney general's office. One was fired by Vacco, one left after Vacco had won the 1994 election but before he took office and one resigned when Vacco fired a number of lawyers for political reasons.

Vacco dismissed more than 100 lawyers upon taking office, not a rare development when a new political party takes over a large state agency. But Spitzer maintained the Republican replaced them with inadequate political cronies. Vacco spokesman Michael Za-bel criticized Spitzer for launching "negative personal attacks." "(Vacco's) record of accomplishments in expanding the role of attorney general's office in the fight against crime and his record of enhancing the office's traditional roles as consumer and taxpayer and environmental protector completely contradicts Eliot Spitzer's negative, politically motivated attacks," Zabel said. By Yancey Roy Albany Bureau ALBANY Fresh off a big Democratic primary victory, attorney general candidate Eliot Spitzer came out swinging terday, saying incumbent Dennis Vacco has downgraded and embarrassed the office through his hiring and firing of people based on political affiliation. "This is the critical issue of this campaign," Spitzer declared, standing on the steps of the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals.

"Dennis Vacco has destroyed the proud independent tradition of the attorney general's office This office should be above politics." A Vacco spokesman said the incumbent would campaign on his record of fighting crime and protecting consumers and the environment. Spitzer, a former Manhattan prosecutor, won a four-way battle Tuesday for the Democratic nomination by garnering 41 percent of the vote. State Sen. Catherine Abate, D-Manhattan, had about 28 percent, former Attorney General G. Oliver Koppell 94th ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Conservative Party primary 99 of districts reporting 66 86 Nancy Calhoun 14 11 Mervin R.

Livsey 93rd ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Conservative Party primary 99 of districts reporting about $4 million much of it his own money. His foes within the party accused the real estate heir of trying to buy the election. But Spitzer said his personal wealth allowed him to forgo contributions from special-interest groups. Asked whether his money was an advantage in the race, Spitzer instead answered his wealth couldn't match the prodigious Republican fund-raising machine that has pumped $20 million into U.S. Sen.

Alfonse D'Amato's campaign, more than $12 million into Gov. George Pataki's and is expected to help Vacco. Spitzer was joined at the 78 123 Josephine Sanguinetti 22 35 Ross Valenza 17th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Democratic primary 98 of districts reporting 93rd ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Independence primary 99 of districts reporting 80 21,245 Eliot Engel 97 94 Sam Colman 20 5,353 Herbert Moreira-Brown 3 Ross Valenza Shortage of money one reason women don't get elected, say experts Ray Harding, tried to score political points over the Democrats' defeat of Ferraro, McCaughey Ross and Abate. General election voters who care about the issues they were talking about like day care, managed care abuses- and education will have to vote for McCaughey Ross on the Liberal line on Nov. 3, he argued.

But the chairwoman of the state Democratic Party, Judith Hope, said the Democrats' track record is far better than those of other parties at electing female office holders five women Ney York congresswomen vs. one-for Republicans, 24 female state Assembly members vs. 10 for (Re-publicans and seven female slate senators vs. two for Republicans. she didn't have money." McCaughey Ross's wealthy husband, Wilbur Ross, deposited more than $2 million in her campaign account, then withdrew it shortly before the primary.

He left her $500,000 to run a bare-bones television advertising campaign. McCaughey Ross is still in the race, campaigning as the Liberal Party's candidate against New York City Peter Vallone, the Democratic nominee; Republican incumbent Gov. George Pataki; and millionaire businessman B. Thomas Golisano, the Independence Party candidate. The state's Liberal Party boss, of New York and the president of Albany's Common Council.

"Donors do not want to take a chance till candidates can show they can do it, but how do you show you can do it if you have run out of money?" Candidates become viable recipients of big contributions when they acquire political credentials and become part of the network of political power brokers where such money is available, Desfosses said. Female politicians lag behind men in both categories, she said. In the meantime, ever bigger sums of money are needed to mount credible statewide cam paigns. "All the while they (women) are trying to catch up, the mechanical rabbit is racing further ahead," Desfosses said. The director of the New York Common Cause chapter, Rachel Leon, said money spoke louder than gender in Tuesday's primaries.

"I don't know if that means overall that people are not looking at gender or if you have to be well funded to make gender your issue," said Leon, whose group favors public campaign financing. "Betsy McCaughey Ross was a serious candidate when she had money, and she was not considered a serious candidate when tenant governors Democrat Mary Anne Krupsak in 1974 and McCaughey Ross as a Republican in 1994. A shortage of money was the reason Ferraro, McCaughey Ross and Abate didn't do better, experts agreed yesterday. But money problems seem to have become chronic whenever females compete in the increasingly big-buck races for statewide offices in New York. "Women tend not to have run in the big-money races before, so by the time big donors are willing to take a chance on them, they are far into campaigning," said Helen Desfosses, a political scientist at the State University The Associated Press Being the best-known candidates in their races did Geraldine Ferraro and Betsy McCaughey Ross no good in the 1998 Democratic primary, and neither, apparently, did their gender.

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