DEP organizational chart for 9/11 emergency response, Sept 2001

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THE ELECTION ■D c o CT o o cn Primary Rescheduled for Sept. 2S, With Runoff, ifNecessary, Set for Oct. 11 o' ■D o ro 3. ' By ADAM NAGOURNEY cessible to board members. And in reforming the school system — has Yorkers — Americans — were talk­ 91 CD The New York mayoral primary, one more complication, the new The Board of almost certainly been taken over by ing about current events and politics O bj^lted In mid-vote after the terrorist round of voting will have to be ar­ an emphasis on command abilities, and having arguments and discus­ o o attacks on the World Trade Center ranged without the assistance of the campaign aides said. c onTuesday morning, was resched­ board’s executive director, Daniel Elections is facing a sions about it,” said Josh Isay, 31, the More than a few Democrats said spokesman for Alan G. Hevesi, a 3 CD uled yesterday for Sept. 25, present­ DeFrancesco. Aides said that Mr. yesterday the Democrats would be Democratic candidate. ing the candidates with an entirely DeFrancesco went to a hospital yes­ host ofproblems. compared by voters with Mayor For the most part, the Democrats transformed competition for a job terday for what was described as an Rudolph W. Giuliani who has been on have been avoiding making any kind wbose demands now seem quite dif­ urgently needed double-bypass oper­ display in the last few days. More of appearances that might risk their ferent from when the contest started ation on his heart. we’ll have an election,”, said Joe De- than a few Democrats expressed being criticized for politicizing the eight months ago. The Board of Elections began to Plasco, a spokesman for one of the concern, albeit far-fetched, that event. The change in date, which applies collect election machines from Democrats, Mark Green, the public someone would seek to suspend the Mr. Green toured the attack site to all primaries across New York, around the city yesterday, except in advocate, Mr. DePlasco was speak­ city’s term limit statute, so that Mr. yesterday, but did not inform report including one for county executive in the area south of 14th Street. The ing from the street because Mr. Giuliani could stay in office. ers in advance, an aide said. The Nassau County, was approved by the machines will be reset and none of Green’s campaign headquarters had The effect of the attacks extends to fourth major Democratic candidate. State Legislature during a special the votes that were cast on Tuesday been evacuated because of a bomb less sweeping matters as well. Most Peter F. Vallone, the City Council session in Albany. A runoff, should will be counted. The board’s spokes­ threat at Grand Central Terminal. of the candidates had talked about speaker, has become a familiar fig­ one prove necessary If none of the man, Naomi Bernstein, said the elec­ William Cunningham, a spokes­ financing housing construction plans ure accompanying Mr. Giuliani dur­ Democratic mayoral candidates win tion was being started as if the origi­ man for Michael R. Bloomberg, who by using revenues derived from is competing with Herman Badillo rents at the World Trade Center. ing many appearances associated at least 40 percent, would be held on nal Primary Day never happened. with the attack. i• Oct. 11, a Thursday. Douglas A. Kellner, a member of for the Republican mayoral nomina­ Another question was turnout. Fa­ tion, said that Mr. Bloomberg had no ther Joseph A. O’Hare, the head of In New Jersey, events left one : The New York City Board of Elec­ the board, said inspectors would be tions met last night to review what instructed not to look at the ma­ plans to resume what had been a the Campaign Finance Board, said candidate stranded overseas and ef­ gfficials described as an avalanche chines, to avoid the release of any multimillion-dollar, extensive bar­ that in his opinion, the board should fectively suspended all politicking of problems confronting board offi­ incomplete results that might tar­ rage of television advertisements. “1 not give the candidates any more within the state. Bret D. Schundler cials as they move to arrange a new nish the voting on Sept. 25. don’t think anybody will have a nor­ city campaign subsides — except to the Republican nominee, was visit election. The rescheduling of the election mal, traditional campaign before pay for get-out-the-vote operations ing Israel as part of a three-day .Those range from the fact that the came in the midst of a day in which Sept. 25; the traditional stuff Isn’t that had been abruptly shut down on solidarity mission with New Jersey Company that printed registration rescue workers picked through the going to work,” he said. Tuesday. Jewish leaders when the towers were sheets was situated In the World pile of rubble at the World Trade Campaign aides and analysts de­ Some campaign aides said that the destroyed. Trade Center complex (the board Center and in which bomb threats clined to speculate on how this might huge distraction of the tragedy could Aides said that Mr. Schundler said found another printer), to the chance reverberated across the city. affect the contest, suggesting that further drive down interest In the today that his group was waiting foi plat the Police Department would In this environment, campaign such discussions might seem to be in race. But some advisers, while tak­ a return flight to the United State.' nbt have enough officers to provide aides said only that there would be no bad taste now. ing pains to say they were not mak­ but that he was also considering fly the required posting at each of city’s more campaigning for the foresee­ If hard to quantify, the terrorist ing any predictions, said that the ing to Canada and making the tri[ 1300 polling sites. able future — no speeches, no televi­ attacks, and the way they have al­ events had stirred an interest In gov­ from there by land. In addition, the board’s offices, sion commercials, or no appear­ tered the mood of the city, seemed ernment that had not been present in His Democratic opponent, James which house its computers and data- ances that might even remotely likely to affect the race in ways large American life for a long timfe. E. McGreevey, canceled his cam base, are just two blocks from the smack of a political campaign. and small. What had been the shared “I was in Union Square last night, paign schedule at least through Sat trade center site, and thus are inac- “The campaign is over, and now emphasis of the candidates — on and for the first time In my life. New urday, a spokesman said.

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