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4-C THE MIAMI HERALD Friday Oct 27 1978 Attorney Pilot Battle for Bist 116 Seat By EA TORRIERO And BONNIE ANDERSON Htrald StaH Writers Gene Flinn Democratic candidate for the state House District 116 sits in his den cigaret holder in one hand and telephone in the other understand your Flinn tells a prospective voter you need just give me a Tom Endter Republican opponent sits in the living room of his comfortable South Dade home He has just returned from taking his children to school problems in this society can be traced to the demise of the Endter says much of what goes on in Tallahassee is done without the family in The race is a campaign of contrasting beliefs and personalities Flinn a corporate attorney is the prototypical politician He strides from person to person shaking hands patting backs and smiling broadly He boasts of his contributions to Dade planning and zoning boards His stationery contains a list of supporters which reads like a Who of Dade County ENDTER an Eastern Airlines pilot is a soft-spoken first-time candidate in a district where Republicans are outnumbered three to one more like the people who live said End-ter have any ties to power groups Most peo- pie you know And not throwing loads of my own money into Flinn has raised more than $49000 and given more than $26000 of that himself contribution lists include many donations from attorneys Endter has raised about $6800 mostly in small contributions The largest donation $500 is from the Republican party Endter says he a conservative but admits he leans to the conservative point of view An active'member of the Right to Life movement and Miami Catholic Archdiocese Endter accents the tributions by special-interest groups including $1050 from realtors $450 from attorneys $950 from medical interests $300 from beer interests and $200 from farmers Hayes Malloy Seeking Seat Richard Hayes Republican candidate for state House of Representatives District 118 is no stranger to politics but done more campaigning in the courtroom than on the stump Since 1972 he has sued numerous private firms and government agencies over alleged voting irregularities the closed party primary system anti-bottle bill campaigning and method of electing county commissioners Now suing to take the gay-rights question off the ballot Nov 7 And running against Democratic incumbent John Cyril Malloy for the state House HAYES CALLS his opponent Malloy calls Hayes a litigator attorney supposed to involved in Hayes counters Malloy who crossed over from the Republican Party two years ago has been running a low-profile campaign based on his four years in the House and his strong pro-environmental stance Malloy 48 a patent attorney and engineer has raised $11428 mostly from individuals largest contributors include lobbying group and the Florida Dental Association Hayes 41 one of the last candidates to get his name on the ballot has raised $1732 with $572 of that in the form of campaign literature donated by a local printing firm Malloy opposes the functional-literacy test as it exists today He favors ERA a review of the tax structure and a limit to government spending but no restrictive cap He opposes casino gambling Hayes hedges on his positions on ERA and the functional-literacy test saying he favors both with qualifications He is against casino gambling family in his advertising and door-to-door campaigns ON TAXING spending gambling insurance and education both candidates have similiar views Schools at Issue in Dist 117 Bill Flynn a former legislator who is the Democratic candidate for the state House in District 117 says he should be elected because he is the of But Robert Godoy a Republican who never has run for office before says the district needs Otherwise the two have similar platforms Their main differences are over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) the Sunshine Amendmentand education Flynn 58 who was defeated in 1976 after spending two years in the House supports the ERA and the state Sunshine Amendment but thinks the amendment is not strong enough Godoy 44 a Cuban-American attorney who is the vice chairman of the Dade Republican party thinks the Sunshine Law is adequate and opposes the ERA fearing it will allow homosexuals to marry and adopt children ALTHOUGH both support the functional-literacy test and oppose teacher tenure their opinions differ on other education issues Flynn believes funding for education should be increased He proposes to fund this increase by using half of the revenue collected by a 1 per cent sales tax increase The other half of the money would be used to lower property taxes Godoy would not spend more money on education Instead he wants to examine how money is spent now and cut out unnecessary expenditures major support appears to be from the Latin community He has raised about $9600 primarily from Latins About 14 per cent of the voters who can vote in this race are Latins Flynn a developer with a string of public posts to his credit has raised about $14400 mainly from con District 109 District 110 District 112 Political Have Look-Alike Platforms mm if McDOUGAL GERSTEN FOX SACKETT HARRINGTON PLUMMER tive session The two vary on most issues but the race has been more one of personalities SACKETT a Democrat-turned-Republican after his loss still pushes his with measure which he introduced in every session he served He likes to pull out his and show news clippings which he thinks portray Fox in a bad light One is a photo which shows Fox with head on hands and a weary look on her face look at Sackett says used to try and catch me sleeping up there and just look at Fox refers to Sackett only as and likes to tell how he motivated her to run against him in 1976 by telling a rather crude joke about women on the House floor during debate op the Equal Rights Amendment decided I was going to run against Fox recalls as angry as I was I realized later that when God made this man She was only THE QUIP is typical of Fox known for her strident activism for rights Fox cites as her main legislative successes two measures she says will save thousands of tax dollars: A bill limiting fees appointed attorneys can receive for representing indigents and the work of her subcommittee which probed benefits like uniforms cars and housing state employes receive Fox says the state is enacting new rules for handing out benefits Sackett too brags of some legislative achievements He says he introduced the first bill trying to strike down television blackouts of local sports programs the first bill against throw-away containers and the first anti-pornography bill He admits most of his legislation didn't make it through I laid the groundwork for on the books 1976 charge that he was soft on crime and government waste by pointing to his recent work on House committees on organized crime and state government productivity McDougal asked about the Ger- sten crime position produced a fading photocopy of votes from first term but familiar with anti-racketeering legislation Gersten helped write this term Pressed for criticism about current anti-crime position McDougal says done an about-face Maybe we made a believer out of him From that standpoint maybe our campaign was a McDougal now emphasizes what he calls calling him abrasive even Gersten admits he has forceful way of putting Some of the Dade delegation rate him highly but others find him abrasive according to a Herald survey made in June future effectiveness is thought to be enhanced by his early support of Hyatt Brown (D Daytona Beach) for Speaker of the House Brown rewarded allegiance last week by naming him chairman of the Governmental Operations Committee District 110 Race Is a Grudge Match a grudge match going on in state House District 110 Former legislator Walter Sackett Jr who lost the seat in 1976 after five terms is trying to win it back from incumbent Roberta Fox Sackett 72 and an active physician says giving her a fight Although he trails in the money race $4000 to $28000 Sackett says he "has a lot of support from friends and patients out Fox 35 and an attorney says never had a doubt about winning her second term Rather than talk about votes and strategies for the election she talks about votes and strategies for the next legisla FROM PAGE 1C es on no specific part of the district He discusses little strategy saying only he Is on with a drawn up by a strategy committee of individuals he name A large part of the game plan he does say is fundraising Gallagher had $26045 in the bank by Oct 20 Much of the total came from lobbying groups like the Florida Medical Political Action Committee ($400) the Agri-Business Forum and Everglades Agricultural Committee ($400) and the Amoco Political Action Committee ($200) Gallagher defends such contributions individual who giyes to a political candidate represents his own if you want to call it he insists just means like an open door to tell their side of the Rosenthal labels the funds from big He had collected $41099 by Oct 13 most of it in $25 and $50 donations The largest donations were $1000 from the Florida Lawyers Political Action Committee and another $1000 from his father Her-schel the president of Flagler Federal Savings and Loan Gersten McDougal Battle in Rematch Joe Gersten 31 is a two-term state House veteran striving to display the assurance of seasoned experience His opponent is Bud Mc-Dougal 53 who calls Gersten immature and insulting Gersten a Democrat beat Mc-Dougal a Republican in 1976 with 586 per cent of the vote He expects to win by a similar margin this time Gersten leads in the money race with $15600 as of Oct 12 to $5385 campaign involves recycling the issues and slightly updating the literature he used in 1976 and attacking personality Gersten prefers to twit McDougal about a lack of familiarity with his record and legislative procedures HE SEEKS to defuse District 114 is glad he had a tough primary fight against public defender Norman Gerstein the primary) people would meet me -in the street and ask are Hector said when I go out into the street people grab me and ask how are Don Slesnick Republican challenger for seat says this supports what he's said about Hector all along he (Hector) know the people in the district and the people in the district know him I have to wonder what the man has been doing for 12 said Slesnick an attorney The Hector-Slesnick race has been designated by Republicans as a campaign In a district bounded by South Miami Beach to the east and Coral Gables to the southwest Hector is ripe to be beaten Slesnick says Republican has won in the district Slesnick says of the Latins are registered Republicans and they do come out to vote Of course only 27 per cent of the voters are registered Republicans Hector has been doing all he can to woo the Latin vote He has opened a campaign office in Little Havana and spent some of his $83-435 for campaign literature in Spanish Slesnick has raised $18317 and received many contributions from police unions Hector calls Slesnick like me too much because I voted against increased pensions for county he said "So they put Slesnick up to spite Amendment and creation of an organized crime bureau in Florida But there the similiarities end Sadowski an attorney who headed the House Urban Coalition which sought additional funds for schools in the six largest counties is opposed to a Proposition 13 in Florida casino gambling and capital punishment The 25-year Dade resident who was appointed in September to head a House insurance committee also supports tenure for teachers and right to organize and strike RODRIGUEZ who was an attorney in Cuba but recently has been involved in social work promises to have a Proposition 13 law passed in Florida He also supports casino gambling and favors capital punishment The Cuban-American who speaks limited English is opposed to teacher tenure and unionization for sector of the economy including state or municipal Sadowski supports the national Equal Rights Amendment and Rodriguez said he had not heard of either About 28 per cent of the voters are Latin Rodriguez who has collected about $900 from Liatin supporters said most of his backers are Cuban-Americans who knew him or his reputation as a public defender in Cuba 1 Sadowski has raised about $2200 primarily from contributions made by attorneys Hector Slesnick Wage 'Key Battle Bob Hector the incumbent from Tax Reform Sought In Dist 112 Race Nancy Harrington talks tough Her race for House District 112 against Democrat Larry Plummer is her third political battle she says and experience tells her got a good chance aware that Republicans are outnumbered more than 2-1 in her district and that Plummer has raised $39000 to her $5000 just have to Harrington says been in this community for many many years been in the Legislature and my name is a familiar Plummer says he remembers all that but that it mean much He thinks their name recognition is at least equal Plummer runs the family funeral home and is the brother of Miami Commissioner JL Plummer OF legislative experience he says matter much Since been out of Tallahassee for two years she have any In the end it comes down to a matter of philosophies Harrington a 52-year-old real-estate agent switched from Democrat to Republican when she lost her District 113 seat' after serving one term in 1976 These days she talks like a Republican working over themes on tax reform should start from scratch and go through every (tax) statute sentence by sentence and paragraph by she says That includes an overhaul of the public schools pump any more money into them Rearrange thair she says Her new party's helped her oui Most of her contributions are from party groups including $1000 from the state committee going down a different track He is at odds with the local Democratic organization which endorsed one of his opponents in the primary HE TALKS tax reform too but wants an overhaul of the state distribution formula before going to a total shakeup Many of contributions are coming from interest groups including American Federation of State County and Municipal Employes ($500) the Florida Lawyers Action Group ($250) and the Florida Medical Political Action Group' ($300) Dist 113 Candidates Are Quite Dissimilar The candidates for the District 1 13 state House seat incumbent Bill Sadowskl and Ceferino Rodriguez have a few things in common Sadowskl 34 a Democrat who is a two-year House veteran and Rodriguez 53 a Republican first-timer support insurance reform the functional-literacy test the Sunshine THE MONEY (AGE Monday means money in The Miami Herald Whether preparing a tax return getting ready to buy a new car or planning how to invest your new inheritance read The Money Page THE MONEY PAGE your guide to personal finance Every Monday in The Miami Herald SW3HSI I Call 350-2000 for home delivery FLORIDA CITY LV i I i.