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...York politicians have rarely been accused of promoting a rational discussion of important issues and critical choices, and this year's candidates for the governorship haven't surprised anyone on that score. True to form, incumbent Gov. Hugh L. Carey and Republican challenger Perry B. Duryea, minority leader of the state assembly, have managed to reduce the decision on who is to run a state of 16 million people, whose cities tread regularly on the edge of bankruptcy and whose social service agencies are crumbling from dry rot and sheer neglect, into a banal game of phony partisan issues...
...major conflicts of the campaign so far revolve around Carey's opposition to the death penalty and his acceptance of large campaign contributions from his brother Ed. The governor, in turn, has flailed away at Duryea--a millionaire lobsterman from conservative Eastern Long Island--for alleged sleight-of-hand in putting much of his fortune in his wife's name shortly before filing a campaign financial statement. The level of discourse, as shown in one of the candidates' recent debates, has sunk to about the third-grade range...
...Duryea: "Yeah, maybe I'll be able to nail your brother...
Deardourff s TV ads for Carey's Republican challenger, Perry Duryea, concentrate more on image-making than on a detailed discussion of issues. To popularize the rather little-known state legislator as "a living, breathing being," Deardourff filmed him riding in one of his lobster boats, piloting his plane and speaking on the floor of the state assembly. Other ads present a relaxed Duryea in the study of his home in Montauk, Long Island, talking about crime, taxes, inflation and education...
...Connolly insists that "Moses created most of central Long Island in his own image...and he also created a fortune for himself." Having managed somehow to drag the name of Moses into an article on the Carey-Duryea gubernatorial campaign, he might have troubled to get the facts straight. Ross Green...