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886 1 iadm9voW Friday, November 4, 1988 DAILY NEWS 37 jobs for toesMo: cluding a section on how to get rid of someone who doesn't want to go. said James Lafferty, spokesman for the office. If Bush is elected, he may draw on the work that has been done by Lou Cordia at the conservative Heritage Foundation. Cordia is compiling a computerized list of potential candidates fo each of the political posts. If Bush wins.

Cordia speculated that 40 of the current political appointees will choose to leave the government, 40 will be held over and a difficult 20 will want to stay but wont be appropriate for a Bush administration." Cordia is ready to present his list to Bush Nov. 9. be used to pay campaign officials until they begin government jobs in January, both the campaign staffs of Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis say they won't need anything like the 1,500 people who worked on Reagan's transition to the presidency in 1980. 2,000 jobs One of the most important problems facing the President-elect will be deciding whom to appoint to the 2,000 political jobs he must fill and deciding whom to dump among current government appointees. To help him out, the federal Office of Personnel Management is drafting a thick set of guidelines, in By MAUREEN SANTINI News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON President Reagan's 2,000 political appointees are expected to turn in their resignations after next week's presidential election even if another Republican, George Bush, wins.

"All presidential appointees will be expected to tender their resignations whether or not they are going to remain in their positions," a senior White House official said yesterday. Perhaps recalling the public outcry that followed the Richard Nixon administration's request for mass resignations after his re- mm. A 7 sition and three floors of space 58,000 square feet in a downtown office building. Xerox machines and wire service machines are on order. Several hundred telephone lines are being installed.

A government representative has informed both campaigns of the rules to be followed: no first-class air fare, no limousines, a daily food-and-lodging limit of $121; and a salary cap of $77,500. "It's 'Welcome to the said Ray Fontaine, controller of the General Services Administration, who has responsibility for the transition. While the transition will By BARBARA ROSS Daily News Staff Wmef The race for the congressional seat in south-central Westchester is entering the homestretch with both candidates claiming their polls indicate victory Tuesday. The two-term Republican, Rep. Joseph DioGuardi, released an Arthur Finkelstein poll this week that shows him more than 14 points ahead of his Democratic challenger, Nita Lowey.

Lowey's pollsters. Bill Johnson and Judith Singer, said their last poll, taken a day before Finkelstein's, showed only a 4-point gap, down from 17 points in September, when Lowey won the Democratic primary. Profile of the district The district includes part of Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, the Long Island sound communities, benefit from the bridge and highway repairs to pay for them. If the bond issue is approved, the city would receive $690 million. Nearly all of it would finance bridge work, including $30 million for the Williamsburg Bridge and $60 million for the Manhattan Bridge.

A Buffalo News poll released yesterday showed that 56 of the state's voters favor the bond issue and 29 oppose it election in 1972, the White House official added, "You are not going to see any meat ax approach to anything." Spare him firing Such an action by the White House will spare Bush, if he is elected, from going through the distasteful task of firing people as one of his first official acts. Though balloting is still five days away, government planners already are focused on the transition the 73-day period between the election and the Jan. 20 inauguration. The government will provide the winner with $3.5 million to conduct the tran est the state will fork over if voters approve the bond issue Tuesday. Later, Gov.

Cuomo and Mayor Koch donned orange hard-hats and windbreakers' and stood on a national symbol of a decaying infrastructure the Williamsburg Bridge to appeal for "yes" votes. Cuomo said the bond issue is preferable to raising the gas tax. Koch said the bond issue, with its repayment schedule, would re-. quire future who I J. "pgr i VI 'l "'W Jg Rep.

Joseph DloGuarcfl Scarsdale and White Plains, and has 90.000 Democrats and 86,000 Republicans. The swing vote is its 60,000 independents. DioGuardi, who swept into office in the 1984 Ronald Reagan landslide, has had the edge over Lowey, a community activist who is close to Gov. Cuomo and worked in the secretary of state's office. DioGuardi is better known and, thanks to a $1.4 million war chest, he started campaigning earlier on radio, TV and through the mails; Lowey had to fight a three-way Democratic primary in which she spent $550,000.

She expects to spend $300,000 in the battle against DioGuardi. Sharpest clashes The sharpest clashes in the increasingly bitter campaign have come over disclosures that DioGuardi received $57,000 in questionable campaign contributions from 29 employes of a New Rochelle car dealership. Some of those employes told the Gannett newspapers in Westchester that their boss, who was on DioGuardi's campaign finance committee, later reimbursed them. Lowey contends these contributions violate federal law, which forbids corporate donations and limits individual contributions to $2,000 per election. Says he didn't know DioGuardi has said he did not know how the donations were made, and he has offered to return them if the donors write and ask for refunds.

Kieran Mahoney, DioGuardi's spokesman. conceded that the controversy NITA LOWEY, tne Democratic challenger to U.S. Rep. Joseph DioGuardi in south-central Westchester County. TOM MONASTER DAILY NEWS caused a DioGuardi decline in private polls, but he said the GOP candidate has recovered.

In another controversy, DioGuardi was forced to withdraw a radio commercial in which he charged that Lisa Meyer, Lowey's campaign manager, had been indicted in a state legislative payroll scandal. Meyer was not indicted, although she did testify in the case before a grand jury. Lowey and Meyer are suing DioGuardi for libel. On other issues. DioGuardi, an accountant, is against abortion rights and for the death penalty.

Louey takes the opposite position on both. The two also disagree on how to clean up Long Island Sound. DioGuardi supports a plan to impose a 1 tax on new construction in the sound's drainage basin. Lowey calls this a license to pollute; she proposes a ccn-'sservancy- to' spend existing stale and federal funds. By JOEL S1EGEL Daily News Staff Wmer It was a battle of photo opportunities yesterday as friends and foes of the state's proposed $3 billion transportation bond issue sought support in the city.

At City Hall, the Sierra Club, the Straphangers Campaign and other opponents wheeled out an enlarged $2 billion check signed by "Jane and Joe Taxpayer." They said the check represented, 'wasteful" inter-.