Word: governors
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...City, running east along the coast, and you don't stop driving until you can taste the salt in the air. Along the way you pass the Fire Island bridge, a monument in concrete and steel to the relentless vision of a man named Robert Moses. Moses ran for governor of the state in '34 and lost, but he ran the state anyway, with his convoys of cement mixers and cranes. Moses created most of central Long Island in his own image--flat and gray and cement-hard--and he also created a fortune for himself, but he was never...
...eastern tip of the island, windswept home of fishermen and lobstermen and a charming stone lighthouse that somehow never managed to keep scores of Atlantic clippers away from the homicidal rocks off the coast. Montauk is also the home of Perry Duryea, who wants very much to be governor of the state, and who may well get his wish quite soon...
...though, the spiel changes dramatically: Look here, Duryea says, if I hadn't agreed to the last-minute compromise the city would have floundered. The fact that he had no real choice--that he could not possibly have blocked the city's recovery and still expect to run for governor three years later--does not intrude on his creative analysis. Like a losing football coach who somehow manages to take credit for the other team's victory, Duryea has been able to double-talk and double-think his most notable legislative retreat into a key win--and he is getting...
...glorious years before the heathen Democrats took over in 1974, and finally, this year, the Republican gubernatorial nomination. People like him, and many will vote for him--some because he likes the death penalty, some because he favors tax reform, many because he just looks so much like a governor, a stately, silver-maned Millard Fillmore-clone. Back in Montauk, where the fishermen and duck farmers and county lawyers know him best, they will vote for him because they know what Perry is all about. Like so many of the folks back home, Perry hates The City...
...shift away from the rural, anti-city sloganeering of past elections, a conscious effort to win the big urban voting blocs that for decades (Rockefeller excepted), have been under Democratic lock and key. For the first time in memory, they argue, none of the candidates for governor or lieutenant governor is an "upstater": Duryea's running mate, Rep. Bruce Caputo, operates out of Westchester, while the Democratic ticket of Gov. Hugh L. Carey and perennial candidate Mario M. Cuomo hails from Brooklyn and Queens, respectively. The geographical factor--always crucial, but even more so in the era of Swiss-cheese...