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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document I

PUBLIC ADVOCATE 3hl s in First Js Clear, but as for Second, IFs Still a Mystery s c*t By DIANE CARDWELL ---------------------------------------------- primary. He said he would resume his cam-' With the results of Tuesday’s an- ohoto Hnish for Joseph GenWi, the deputy director paign, after Yom Klppur. “It used to, of the elections board, said that he be a strategy from week to week,” he, o s mary for public advocate still up in the air yesterday, officials at the thc nifiner-UP SPOt, anticipated that the officiaJ count, said. “After Sept. Il, it was a strat-' Campaign Finance Board said they , r f which will begin at 9 a.tn. tomorrow, egy from day to day. Now it's proba-, would consider authorizing pay Wtth ihc film HOt would not be completed before late bly a strategy from hour to hour,, , I ments for more than two candidates Sunday. maybe even minute to minute.” H to campaign for the runoff if it re- mained unclear who had come in deVcloped Vet. r ’ For Ms. Gotbaum, the course is clear: raise more money, print more Part of that strategy, for Mr. Sie-' ' gel as for the other contenders, is tO’ g second. reXSb^^erS^ZSS ---------------------------------------------- ^or runoff elec^ns tomorrow, literature, make new alliances and rejigger the media plan. But for the cast about for support among those . tied to candidates who might drop' 8! districts, Betsy Gotbaum. a formed ^fophonsin men who would be her competition, out. Mr. Colon said that he was frus-J H parks commissioner, was comfort- who . to pay, depMdmg on the path is a bit more muddied. "It looks like a photo finish for trated that the results had not been x more definitive so that he could be­ G ably in first place, with just under a Elections second,” said Mr. DiBrienza, who gin those conversations with labor'. S3 quarter of the vote. In second place, has been keeping busy with constitu­ unions and political action commit-, «Zt in a dead heat based on percentage, were the salsa performer Willie Co- board thought we would gel ® ^’^^r answer on Monday, it could ents in his Council district in Brook­ lyn, which, with its heavy concentra­ tees pledged to other candidates, ; o Ion, City Councilman Stephen Di- authorize a payment on Monday," “It’s really rough to have to cam-' tion of police officers and firefight­ Brienza, the civil liberties lawyer said. But if it appeared that the ers, was hard hit by the terrorist paign this way,” he said. “It’s not Norman Siegel and Assemblyman official result would take longer, the attack. fair.” Mr. Stringer was taking more of at

Q Scott M. Stringer. 'The tallied votes, which do not board would consider making pay- ™ents to candidates who have rea- "I’ll keep one eye on the Board of Elections and wait until every vote is wait-and-see position yesterday.' “It's close enough that you have to; s include any paper ballots, put Mr. son to anticipate being in the runoff counted,” he added. “We know from

I H H kJ Siegel at the head of that pack and Mr. Stringer at the back, separated by about 5,000 votes. “I don’t know that the board has » avoid delaying payments to the Point of irrelevance. Ms. Gordon said that the board had invited the candidates who are eligi- Florida how important it is for every vote to be counted.” Mr. Siegel said he would focus many eyes on the elections board. wait for the real count.” he said,- sounding giddy from exhaustion.' “It’s the election that’s never going; to end.” s ro ever been presented with a situation ble for public money to make presen- “The first thing the lawyer in me £23 like this before,” said Nicole A. Gor- tations at tomorrow’s meeting about says is, I’ve got to get the facts,” Mr. don, executive director of the finance receiving runoff payments, which Siegel said yesterday as he and his No day is complete board, ^s. Gordon said that the are one-titne gr.anls equivalent to a staff worked to round up 50 volun­ without <1 o board, scheduled to consider pay- quarter of what they received lor the teers to monitor the count. The Neifc York Times. o ro I i o o o co co, o

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