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A6 Daily Record, Morris County, N.J. Thursday, June 10, 1993 CAMPAIGN '93 GOP Results of the GOP gubernatorial primary Here are the latest, unofficial returns by county in the Republican primary for governor. Continued from A1 "Christie Whitman will be our next governor." Former Republican Gov. Thomas H. Kean, who is serving as a co-chairman of Whitman's campaign, acknowledged the tough fight ahead.

But he said Whitman, who headed the state Board of Public Utilities during his second term, was up for the challenge. "She's exactly the kind of candir date the state is looking for," Kean said, citing recent GOP victories in Los Angeles, Jersey City and the "exas race for U.S. Senate. "It's not a bad time to be running as a Republican." barded voters with radio, television and direct mail ads attacking Whitman's wealth, credibility and readiness to govern. They seized on her failure to vote in a critical school board election, criticized her position on the issues and made much of the fact that she and her investment counselor husband used a state law to pay reduced property taxes on the family estate in Somerset County.

But it was all in the name of politics, and Edwards and Wallwork, her former opponents, have pledged to help her any way they can. "I'm delighted to support her," Wallwork said. "As I said throughout the campaign, any one of the three candidates would be a better governor than Florio. I think Christie will run a strong race." Most state Republicans at the brunch downplayed the tone of the campaign. "It was not a negative campaign.

I think you're going to see a unified party in November," said Assembly Speaker Garabed Haytaian, R-Warren. "We'll have our disagreements in-house, which is what we had, but then we'll be unified. Jim Florio is going to lose in November," he said. WHITMAN Pet EDWARDS Pet WALLORK Pet Atlantic 3,532 29 3,425 28 4,234 35 Bergen 15,609 35 19,679 44 7,987 18 Burlington 8,614 36 9,087 38 5,299 22 Camden 5,615 40 4,192 30 3,885 28 Cape May 2,976 34 2,468 28 2,809 32 Cumberland W4 35 1,682 35 1I233 26 Essex 9,152 38 7,559 32 M01 27 Gloucester 3,664 38 3,401 35 2,175 22 Hudson 3,666 40 3,126 34 1,301 14 Hunterdon 5377 51 2,248 21 2,732 26 Mercer 6,435 46 4,383 32 2,722 20 Middlesex 9,059 48 4,640 25 4,624 25 Monmouth 13,306 42 9,626 30 8,255 26 Morris 16,332 36 17,407 38 10,733 23 Ocean 15,570 41 10.465 28 10,505 28 Passaic 8901 43 7,338 35 4,313 21 Salem 1,016 40 699 28 731 29 Somerset 11,452 S3 4,501 21 5,255 24 Sussex 5,891 36 6,379 39 3,392 21 Union 9,286 42 6,365 29 5,604 25 Warren 2,539 37 2,347 34 1,769 26 Totals 159,666 40 131,017 33 95,959 24 where state spending would be cut to make up the difference. "If they say the money is there and they are able to identify the cuts, of course I would back them up," said Whitman, a former Somerset County freeholder and state utilities regulator who gained national prominence with a razor-thin loss to U.S.

Sen. Bill Bradley in 1990. Before the "GOP Unity Brunch," Whitman greeted and accepted words of congratulations from well-wishers many Republican members of the state Senate and Assembly who survived the primary- They feasted on salads, chicken, rice, scrambled eggs, bacon, fresh fruit and cheese, muffins and dan-ishes. Red, white and blue balloons floated above the tables in a ballroom at the Princeton Hyatt hotel, as Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" and Sister Sledge's "We Are Family," were piped through loudspeakers. During the five months of campaigning that led to Tuesday's primary, Edwards and Wallwork bom W.Va.

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Before doing so, however, she conducted a poll to determine possible public support for female gubernatorial candidates. While she called the results positive of the Republicans polled 30 percent said they were more likely to vote for a woman than a man and 55 percent said a candidate's gender did not matter to them she never entered the primary, saying, "I don't want to work that hard." Whitman's victory should not be seen as a milestone for the women's movement, says Steven Salmore, a GOP strategist and professor at Rutgers University's Eagleton Institute of Politics. "Good candidates win. Weak candidates lose," he said, adding that her gender had little to do with Whitman's success. "I think this whole woman thing is vastly overrated," he said.

"I don't know what a women's issue is." Instead, Salmore said, Whitman's success and other female candidates' failures are the result of candidate recognition regardless of gender. "I'm a very big skeptic of the notion that women vote for candidates because they're women," he said. The Bradley factor What probably helped Whitman more was her 1990 loss to Bill Bradley in the senatorial race, during which she came surprisingly close to beating Bradley in a period of anti-Florio sentiment, Salmore said. Whitman capitalized on the recognition, campaigning hard among grassroots Republican groups. Other women lacked the solid base of support Whitman has, Salmore said.

McConnell was a Democrat from Hunterdon County, "which doesn't count for much," he said. Even Klein, who fared well compared with the other female candidates, lacked widespread support as a Morris County Democrat. As for Sigmund, "she was the mayor of a small town, that's all," he said. Mandel disagreed with Salmore's assertion that gender is unimportant. Simply as a function of the fact that so few women occupy high state and federal offices they are seen as representing change.

Since the days when Klein and even Sigmund and McConnell ran, there has been an "enormous change in our consciousness about women," Mandel said. There are three female governors: Democrat Ann Richards of Texas, Democrat Joan Finney of Kansas and Democrat Barbara Roberts of Oregon. America has had 12 women governors, only one, Kay Orr of Nebraska, a Republican. Mandel lists four reasons three of them gender-based for the difference in success between Whitman and her predecessors. "The political climate's changed," she said, agreeing with the results of Gluck's poll in her feeling that Americans are more receptive to women as candidates than ever before.

When Christie Whitman captured the Republican nomination for gov- ernor Tuesday she took a big step toward her stated goal to be the first woman elected to the state's highest office. Already Whitman is closer to the achievement than any woman in New Jersey history. Several women have competed in gubernatorial primaries in the past, but Whitman is the first to receive a major party's nomination in New Jersey. I Democrat Ann R. Klein made the initial attempt, running for her 'party's nomination against Bren- dan T.

Byrne in 1973. "Many people just thought that it was the strangest thing they had ever seen a woman running for governor," says Ruth B. Mandel, director of Rutgers University's Center for the American Woman and Politics. After her lopsided loss, which left New Jerseyans impressed that she even made a showing, Klein said the election had "expanded the horizons for every little girl in the United States." In 1974, Byrne appointed Klein to head the state Department of Institutions and Agencies, where she re- mained until 1981. "We have carved a doorway through the wall of blind prejudice which dogged my candidacy for so many months," Klein said after losing to Byrne.

She added, "Someday another woman will walk through the door." That woman was again Klein, when she entered the Democratic primary in 1981. Again she lost big, in a climate that was still not receptive to female candidates, Mandel said. Democrat Barbara McConnell also ran in 1981's primary and lost. Supporting small business, tourism and agriculture, McConnell went on to become commissioner of commerce and economic development. "In politics," she said a few months before declaring her candidacy in 1980, "some people still feel perhaps that women should not be in this particular profession.

I disagree. They can deal with the issues just as well as men, perhaps better." Sigmund campaign I Princeton Mayor Barbara Boggs Sigmund, a Democrat, was the next woman to launch a gubernatorial campaign, when she ran against then-Rep. Jim Florio and Middlesex Assemblyman Alan Karcher in their party's 1989 primary. At the time, Sigmund said women's "powerlessness" was one bf the motivations for her candidacy. "They say it's hard for a woman to run for governor of New Jersey," she said at a conference in 1988.

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