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Humor is only infrequently heard in his attack on the Rockefeller record. In person and in a series of TV and radio ads, Goldberg presses his message home, charging that the gap between Rockefeller's promises and performance makes his "credibility" a principal issue. The particular problem that has received the greatest attention from both men is one that preoccupies the voters: narcotics. New York City is the acknowledged heroin capital of the nation, and more of the city's teen-agers die from drug abuse than from any other single cause...
...Rockefeller's narcotics program is scandalous," Goldberg says. He has promised to provide treatment within six months for every addict who wants it, and has even said he would walk ghetto streets himself to be sure heroin is no longer being openly sold. Rockefeller candidly admits the seriousness of the situation even while he emphasizes his efforts to alter...
Almost everything Rockefeller calls a success, Goldberg calls a failure: the state's mammoth building program ("an edifice complex," Goldberg says, borrowing an old sally), environment protection, schools. One of his most effective TV spots is meant to capitalize on voter frustration over mass transportation. Goldberg does not appear in it at all. New York subway riders do, during a typical rush-hour crush, as a voice-over says that Rockefeller claims to have built enough highways to stretch from Albany to Hawaii. The camera dwells on one harassed passenger as the voice says: "But he doesn...
...impact, but the impact is not felt as often as Goldberg would like. He says that his campaign budget is between $1.5 and $2,000,000, and that Rockefeller will spend ten times that. The Governor's camp dismisses the claim as "pure nonsense," contending that it will spend $6,000,000 at most...
...audience falling asleep during a lecture on sewage treatment, making the point that the subject is not interesting, just important, and Rockefeller is taking care of it. Rockefeller will soon step up his TV campaign with an altered focus. Instead of defending his record, he will turn on Goldberg, comparing the former Justice's inexperience in state government with his own three terms in Albany...