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LOCALSTATE Si BENNINGTON BANNER WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1998 Forrest wins Republican Party Rosse comes up big as write-in nomination for county sheriff Staff Reports there," he said. Forrest won all but two towns in the county in the primary. Crowe won Winhall and Landgrove. Crowe, a former sheriff's deputy, has served on the Winhall Police Department as a detective for the past four years. Official results will be tallied by County Clerk Betty.

Loftus beginning today once town clerks around the county send their results in. Forrest now faces a race in November against Democratic newcomer Duane Knapp, one of Forrest's deputies. Crowe heard the results first from the Banner. "Good. That's good for him," he said about Forrest's win.

"There's not much to say really. 1 am sure it will be an interesting race in November." Forrest was happy. "I'm glad the people have faith in me, and put me in the election. It sounds like I have some support out BENNINGTON Bennington County Sheriff Gary Forrest won the Republican Party nomination, defeating challenger Thomas Crowe by 595 votes. Forrest received 1,671 to Crowe's 1,076, with all towns but Searsburg reporting in unofficial results late Tuesday.

It was the second time Forrest faced Crowe. Four years ago, Crowe ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat against Forrest. Candon wins GOP congressional primary TAMMY DANIELS Statt Writer POWN AL State representative candidate Laura Rosse started late but scored big with 103 votes in the Democratic primary Tuesday. Rosse, who began a write-in campaign in August months after the primary deadline, only needed 25 votes to get her name on the November ballot. In fact, Rosse picked up votes for nominations in three different candidacies: state representative on both the Democratic and Republican ballots, and U.S.

congressman on the Democratic ballot. Rosse's Republican backers gave her 31 write-in votes as a crossover candidate on the Republican ticket against her opponent, Allen C. Palmer, son of former incumbent Charles Palmer. Palmer had a total of 130 votes out of 192 Republican ballots. Rosse received 103 votes for state representative out of 148 Democratic ballots.

And in what Rosse believes may have been mistaken entries, five people gave her write-in votes for representative to Congress. Rosse's total support came to 139 votes, but only the 103 votes she earned for state representative on the Democratic ticket counted. Rosse, who spent the entire day at the polls reminding "When you run in the Republican primary you'd better run as a Republican." MARK CANDON Kamttan Oagntr photo Laura Rosse, write-In candidate for state representative, does some last-minute campaigning outside the Pownal Valley Fire Department late Tuesday morning. Pownal residents that she was mother of two," had originally lawyer and former state environmental commissioner, had run for Congress as a Democrat in 1996, garnering less than 10 percent of the vote against Sanders. His conversion to the GOP came with an angry denunciation of Democrats for failing to support his xandidacy.

During the 1996 campaign, Long picketed the Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee to protest the party's lack of support for him. Diamondstone, the third name on the GOP primary ballot for Congress, said during the campaign that he was "just visiting" the Republican Party from the smaller Liberty Union party so that he could participate in the GOP primary. "One of the things that hap-pens in the primary is that the agenda is set for the General Election in the primary," Diamondstone explained in a recent interview. decided against running out of concern for her family. But, her family supported her desire to enter state politics, and Rosse kicked off her write-in campaign a month before the primary.

As for the upcoming November election, Rosse said, "I like to think I have a shot at It." actively seeking the nomination, said she was "really encouraged" by the support. 'They had to write my name in and check the box," said Rosse, noting that it took a little more effort and thought to do that. Rosse, a Pownal Select Board member who describes herself as a "housewife and DAViO GRAM Associated Press Writer MONTPELIER Former Democratic lawmaker Mark Candon won the Republican congressional primary Tuesday in his first foray into statewide GOP politics. "My name is Mark, and my last name isn't McGwire, but we're both knocking one out of the park tonight," Candon said in a reference to the St. Louis Cardinals slugger who broke Roger Maris' home run record Tuesday.

With 192 of 261 precincts or 74 percent having reported unofficial returns by about 10:30 p.m., Candon had 16,476 votes, or 52 percent; Jack Long had 10,166 votes, or 32 percent; and Peter Diamondstone had 5,336 votes, or 17 percent. "It was a privilege to run against Jack Long," Candon said. "He ran a great campaign. He's a good fighter. I look forward to getting some help and advice from Jack Long as the fall progresses." Long said later.

"I'll do what I can to help him." Candon said during the cam-paign that he looked forward to debating four-term incumbent Rep. Bernard Sanders, a left-leaning independent, on the merits of capitalism. Sanders, too, said he was looking forward to the fall Upset North Bennington residents propose village seek town's help efforts this campaign season by calling contacts from his Statehouse days in communities across Vermont. In their primary campaign, Long billed himself as a liberal on social issues like abortion and protecting the rights of homosexuals, while Candon voiced more conservative positions in line with the GOP majorities in the U.S. House and Senate.

Candon said he would not change his fundamental positions during the fall campaign. But he made clear he might tailor his messages somewhat' differently for the broad electorate than for the party stalwarts most likely to vote in the primaries. "I'm a practical politician," Candon said. "I've been in politics before. When you run in the" Republican primary you'd better run as a Republican.

"But I'm mindful that I'm going to have to get more than Republican votes in the fall. We'll be more than happy to town staff when there are two separate government entities with separate by-laws and regulations. Assistant Town Manager Paul Bohne said the proposal "raises some interesting issues such as if the town zoning administrator had to enforce the by-laws of another municipality. Bohne said a town or village faced with the problems of a volunteer staff has three options: go as they will, matters which can be directly related to these frailties, or shortcomings Lorenz wrote in a letter to the village Board of Trustees. The "willing volunteers have quickly found, themselves over their heads in laws and regulation compliance requirements," Lorenz wrote.

The village pays taxes to the Town of Bennington for some services, Lorenz said. He wants to know why the village flesh- our tirftoslttons' In a waf I believe the people ot ask the town to expand the pn be more careful, use attorneys Vermotll W1irasJ wiM iappcal' to moderate fessional services of the towh'I'j and'dO thlngs4that are "wassail erfcer'df'Oirtrtifcrf' befweeh M. Democrats," Vermont lndepen- dents' and Republicans." building inspector, Larry able, Bohne said. canuon anu myscii on wiicuicr "They could go out and buy Newt Gingrich should remain as U.S. Senate GOP Primary (222 of 261 precincts 85 percent) x-Fred H.

Turtle 24,561 55 percent JackMcMullen 19,962 45 percent U.S. Mouse District 1 GOP Primary (222 of 261 precincts 85 percent) x-Mark Candon vnin 19,985 U9 percent Jack Long 13,431 33 percent Pete Diamondstone 7,115 18 percent Governor GOP Primary (222 of 261 precincts 85 percent) x-Ruth Dwyer 25,848 58 percent Bernle Rome percent Secretary of State Dem -Primary (222 of 261 precincts 85 percent) x-Deborah Markowitz 10,959 80 percent Eugene O. Stratton 2,675 20 percent ERIK ARVIDS0N Stan Writer NORTH BENNINGTON Residents tired of what they see as a volunteer village staff repeatedly bungling what should be routine procedures are proposing that the village seek help from the town of Bennington's professional staff, Dwight Lorenz, himself a zoning board member, said he sees a growing problem for the village's part-timeiivoIantee 'staff 'tb handle1- village affairs 'entangled in legal Implication's." This was made especially clear when the Zoning Board of Adjustment held a public meeting recently and had an attorney, Jeffrey Grandchamp, sitting with the board to give advice on a number of issues, Lorenz said. Both the Planning Commission and ZBA are short one member, Lorenz said, saying he could hardly recall times when those boards had full membership. Lorenz had appeared at the board's meeting last week as a citizen opposing two controversial proposals.

One of those, the Bennington Coalition for the Homeless' plan for a homeless shelter on Bank Street, has embroiled the village in controversy for years and sparked disagreement between the zoning administrator and ZBA over procedure. The consequences of having these volunteer boards, no building inspector, and an appointed part-time zoning administrator have most recently impacted the village in the number of legal McLeod, and Bennington Zoning Administrator Daniel Monks, along with the town's larger volunteer boards. At Tuesday's Board of Trustees meeting, Lorenz 's concerns were echoed by Jamaica Kincaid of College Road. She said the town boards are "full of wonderful people" but are "quite underqualified to deal with something that's happening or might be happening." Town officials said that, on first reaction, the village can't easily contract the services of the expertise by hiring a part-time professional zoning administrator and building inspector, which would be expensive but could be done through sharing part-time staff with other towns. "They could give up their charter and become part of the town," he concluded.

Board of Trustees Chairman John Ulrich said he thought Lorenz's point was "well-taken," and the trustees would take up the matter at next month's meeting. Long said of his primary campaign: "I wouldn't do anything differently, not second-guess anything I've done. I ran the best campaign I could with the resources I had. I told the voters how I stood on the issues. They decided liked Mr.

Candon 's stands on some of the issues rather than my stand." Long and Candon, both former Democrats, made the political scene as Republicans this year, both arguing that the Democratic Party had become too liberal and had left mainstream Vermonters behind. Long, 54, a Burlington speaker of the House, whether the government should deny a woman the right to choose (abortion), whether Social Security should be privatized and whether we should increase funding for the star wars program at the same time as Congress has made savage cuts in Medicare and veterans' needs," Sanders said. Candon, '46, a Rutland investment adviser, served two terms in the Vermont Legislature as a Democrat from Rutland in the early 1980s. He said he began his organizing Markowitz wins Dem. secretary of state nod THEY SAY GOOD THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES City clerk and the positions he has held in the regional clerks association.

He said he spent about $2,000 on his campaign. "I fully support the Democratic ticket," Stratton said Tuesday night. "I'll fully support her all the way. I hope we have.a Democratic winner in November." As of two weeks ago, Markowitz had collected $28,869 for the campaign and spent $6,633. Stratton had raised $845 and spent $1,164.

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