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...ease making small talk with the folks, though he excels at defending his record in office. If he wins reelection, much of the credit will go to Media Consultant David Garth, who has managed to convey a livelier image of the Governor. The Republican candidate, silver-haired Perry Duryea, is a millionaire Long Island lobsterman who has spent 18 years in the state assembly. He is attacking Carey for vetoing a bill to restore capital punishment, an issue that predominates in crime-plagued New York City. By mounting a phone operation that reaches some 400,000 city voters, mostly...
...DIDN'T WORK because Duryea so successfully developed a schizophrenic image. With the conservative upstate vote relatively safe, if only by virtue of party orthodoxy, he has managed to do what no conservative Republican has been able to accomplish in 30 years--impress the city voters. Most of this success, granted, is traceable to Carey's singular inability to make a favorable personal impression on anyone outside the range of third cousin: with a Dukakis-like reputation for brusqueness and tactlessness, Carey simply doesn't score many points with the casual voter or party worker. Despite his impressive accomplishments--lobbying...
...KICKER, of course, is that this moderate, suburban, new-breed Republican Perry Duryea does not exist. Duryea's sentiments are about as suburban-sophisticated as those of the feed dealer in upstate Callicoon; back home in Montauk, where the folks care less about Medicaid funding and mass transit than whether the state will subsidize a new trawler dock, Duryea has survived only by aggressive, unrelenting provincialism...
...record shows it: Duryea's voting record in the state assembly displays a consistent disregard for city needs in the areas of revenue sharing, mass transit funding, Medicaid programming and low-income housing. But the record does not speak for itself. Duryea, with the silver mane and the mellow deliberate tones and the one careful vote for the Big MAC bond issue, can speak around it with startling effectiveness...
Absurd or not, Perry Duryea still has a very real 'chance of sending Carey back to Brooklyn for good next month. There is, of course, always the chance that the governor could charge back--if, for instance, the city's newspapers return soon enough to allow Carey the extra publicity that always attends the incumbent, or if city voters abruptly decide to vote for one of the candidates instead of simply against one. But right now Duryea still keeps a firm grip on his 5-per-cent lead in the polls, and the governor still spends most of his time...