The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 261

Thursday, June 25, 1992 CC 13 Sips JThkAt '351 Hi hlM 22 HfM "fflr III ACS US I 5i SfiSrl MhEJ lil lil lis li Jilil! sa HSSS I .52 i 22 i railing ggS 2 ss tf i isg Mil ei Pi fclf iji vV s-x ai "II sozft" b-f gill ens Grj! CAMPAIGN '92 New office for 2 state candidates Challengers Joseph S. Magid and Robin Garrett want to tap the anti-incumbent sentiment. By Timothy Cornell IN(I'IKKH('OKKKSI'ONI)KNT Three store windows down from Ross Perot's headquarters in West Chester, two new signs appeared in a new campaign office on Monday. One was for Joseph S. Magid, the Democrats' candidate for the 19th Pennsylvania Senate District.

The other was for Robin Garrett, a Democrat running for the state House in the 156th District. The proximity to Perot isn't entirely coincidental. Like Perot, they both see themselves as outsiders. Like Perot, both candidates are tying their campaigns to an ire against incumbents that they hope to ride to victory. And like Perot, they will have to overcome heavy odds to win.

"The anger is out there; you can see it," Magid said in his new campaign office. He said he hoped that the anger would translate into enough action to overcome the 2-to-l ratio against Democrats in registered voters in the county. Magid is running against a Republican incumbent, Sen. Earl Baker, in a district that includes most of the townships in the central and southern parts of the county. Garrett is challenging another GOP lawmaker, Elinor Z.

Taylor, in a House district that consists of part of the West Chester area and East Goshen, West Goshen and West White-land Townships. In a press release, Magid and Garrett stated that they were both "fed up with the status quo, with professional politicans who care more about their next election than about the lives of people they are supposed to represent." "Thank you for acknowledging with your presence that here in Chester County we have a two-party system," Garrett told a clutch of supporters outside the new headquarters at 16 Market St. across from the county courthouse. She pledged that if she was elected, she would step down after six years. Magid tried to tap into the anti-incumbency in his speech, telling supporters "the old way of doing things just isn't working any more.

The professional politicians have had their turn and, given the current state of affairs, they have failed. Now it is our turn." Magid, a computer consultant, is an East Goshen resident and treasurer of the county Democratic committee. Garrett, who lives in West Goshen, is an assistant professor of nursing at West Chester University. Both Magid and Garrett won their nominations as write-in candidates in the April primary after no other Democrats filed petitions to get on the ballot in the two races. I III! 1 1 JiV nmo A S-i 2 Ok QHQ Tin UHliFi ssll I I is 1) itosliSF fall 1.