Newsday from New York, New York • 15

Golm to the Tape Holtzman uses audio to back integrity the race comes weeks after her two opponents started their spots campaign has already bought more than $700000 of TV and radio airtime including more than $350000 for this week according to consultants who are monitoring the hlv t'huUl 7 Alan Hevesi By Harry Berkowitz STAFF WRITER With only eight days left before the Democratic primary City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman launches her TV ad campaign today with a spot that cites decade-old secretly recorded statements by to prove that too Without saying so the reference seeks to rebut conflict-of-interest accusations that have been hounding Holtzman for months The city Department of Investigation is studying a possible connection between a bank Iran to her Senate campaign last year and the designation of the sister firm as comanager of a city bond sale Her opponents Alan Hevesi and Herman Badillo have tried to make that inquiry a central issue of the campaign about a narrator starts out saying in the 30-second spot as a picture of a reel-to-reel tape recorder appears too The narrator then says what gangsters said on FBI and adds that get to The ad then shifts to actions she took in different parts of her career and slow-motion scenes of her with various white black Hispanic and Asian people The statements on honesty refer to two trials in the 1980s In a bribery trial of former Rep John Jenrette Jr relating to the Abscam investigation the evidence included a 1979 tape made by undercover federal agents in which the South Carolina Democrat said he could not guarantee passage of an immigration bill because of Holtzman At the time she was chairwoman of the House subcommittee handling such legislation and she has interpreted the remark as a tribute to her honesty Also in a federal organized crime trial a 1981 tape was played in which a defendant comments that Holtzman be as he discusses the shrinking number of public officials who accepted bribes ad is not going to said Hank Morris who is doing spots for challenger Hevesi "The ad is designed The campaign has said it plans to spend up to $1 million on media One Hevesi ad started out asking and another asked why?" in an attempt to boost recognition of the Queens assemblyman who lost to Holtzman in the 1989 primary campaign has bought about $300000 of airtime including a spot in which former Mayor Edward I Koch endorses him some Spaniah-language spots and a spot beginning this week that cites endorsements by the New York Post and Jewish Press campaign is spending about $225000 on media including radio spots that began airing last week especially on black-oriented stations Hevesi also bought heavily on black-oriented stations such as WLIB Both Hevesi and Badillo who is guaranteed of running on the Republican and Liberal lines in the general election are hoping Holtzman falls short of the 40 percent vote she needs to avoid a runoff and each challenger hopes that he comes in second Holtzman could then be very vulnerable since black voters who represent a big part of her base have proven less likely to turn out in the runoff and since Hevesi and Badillo voters might unite in opposition to Holtzman analysts said Without specifying what roles she played and when the Holtzman ad also cites actions in other parts of her career That includes references to exposing Nazi war criminals which would involve her tenure in Congress helping get laws passed to aid rape victims as Brooklyn district attorney and in Congress and as comptroller supporting programs to step up mammograms to screen for breast cancer and issuing a report that assailed the school health immunization program Navad Fib Photo City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman to cover up the financial scandal that Liz Holtzman is immersed in right Morris said honest Liz Holtzman of a decade ago is not the Liz who is the target of the inquiry Hank Sheinkopf the media consultant who created the ad said it is fair to cite the old incidents since Holtz opponents are citing their entire careers in their ads ana that it was necessary to address the issue in some way the best response to a negative is not to respond Sheinkopf said I think you can let any charge go unanswered in some campaign has been eager to launch ads assailing Holtzman on the issue but has been mindful that negative ads could backfire when more than two candidates are in a race That happened last year in the Senate race when Holtzman assailed Geraldine Ferraro in ads and ended up in fourth place Holtz TV advertising blitz in Fife CtlUi Herman Badillo Like My Father Like His Son Too CAMPAIGN Council primary fights in a lot of black Those will bring out voters and as at the almost totally black Fort Greene center he wants to remind them he's black too Second Mayor David Dinkins is challenged by Rqy Inn is and although few regard it as significant team want the mayor embarrassed So they press for a big turnout by the black community where support is stronger for Dinkins than his more conservative black opponent think the black vote might be 40 Paterson said Tempering euphoria is Dinkins (the Brooklyn and Manhattan Democratic leaders Assemb Clarence Norman and Herman Farrell) have endorsed Assemb Roberto Ramirez The mayor needs the unpredictable Latino vote to beat Republican-Liberal Rudolph Giuliani they think a Latino running mate might help him get it Paterson turns testy when that theory is propounded "There be two block he challenges Well some voters rationalize voting against a black mayoral candidate by voting for a black advocate candidate? Paterson looks exasperated something that consultants dream up If people want to vote against a block candidate they'll do it no matter who else is on the ballot People aren't going mandated by the new City Charter but never set up to seek C-Span-style coverage of council meetings Nowhere does he note that the only handicapped candidate legally blind Pressed by members of the Democratic club run by the disabled about the Idas experienced he said he might start mentioning it In a six-candidate field with politicians wondering if any will get the 40 percent necessary to avoid a two-Democrat runoff all must cultivate their which in case is black which in this primary is a plus tics for decades Like his father the senator has cultivated broad-baaed politics Until the 1992 political remapping his Harlem-based district stretched to include a chunk of the predominantly white very liberal West Side Now boxed more into Harlem But his campaign Paterson-for-ad-vocate headquarters is a storefront on Livingston Street in downtown Brooklyn did it Paterson said "Months ago I decided the schism between Manhattan and Brooklyn never has been So he set up in Brooklyn and signed a Brooklyn politician Peter Williams as campaign manager Stacked on tables iri the scruffy storefront are pamphlets that promise to -1 budget office that Mask politicians loyal to- to bo faciat half the First he there are City the fact.