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well as their support system Hut the shock was a lot Comeback Kid and the of the neocon/Offiaal Con/ greater in New York than in Comeback Party. The polls Official libertarian pundit- most of the country. In the claimed that the Republican ocracy. The grass-roots right- first place, Mario had for surge had stopped; they wing have marvelous years been the Great Shining peaked too early; Clinton is libertarian and Prince of Dem- up in the polls; the Democrats anti-statist in- ocrat left-liber- are now surging ahead; the stincts, but they alism: witty, public has had a chance to are unsophisti- brainy eloquent, look at the ”contract” and Catedaboutpeo- left-Catholic blah blah. The Democrats are ple and politi- theologian (an up again! I had been optimistic cal leaders, es- acceptable about a Democratic collapse pecially those Catholic, for before that, but by the final who clothe their Heaven’s sake, weekend before Election Day treason in the now that Teddy I was getting worried, fair garb of was old, fat, snowed by the ”scientific” rightist and anddkudited), media onslaught. But then, libertarian- a man who had magically, the day before sounding rheto- taken the na- Election Day, whoops! the ric. Our task is tion’s liberals polls showed that the Demu- to strip the by storm at his crat surge had magically glowing rheto- speech at the stopped; the Republicans are ric from our Democrat con- up again, and by Election misleaders, vention of 1984. morning the polls were at and reveal the Ever since, he least in the ballpark (although ugly reality un- had been the plaudits to political analysts derneath. Our Numero Uno Robert Novak, Michael task, in short, is to show, once presidentabile, if we may Barone, and Stuart Rothen- again, that despite the sys- coin a term. berg for getting the Senate temic deceit practiced by our But secondly, and more shift right on the button, and Official movement apologists strikingly, Mario was sup- they called the House pretty and word-spinners, our Em- posed to win; until Election closely as well.) perors, be they Willie or Wil- Day the polls had Mario com- What was with the media? liam or Newt, are wearing no fortably in the lead. In con- My astute colleague Lew clothes. trast, for example, everyone Rockwell plausibly speculated knew that Speaker Tom Foley that the media, after trylng to was doomed many weeks hypetheirwish-fulfiUmentas before the election. And the long as they dared, had to Ciiomo lead was not part of preserve their credibility and A Rivederci, what looked like a massive start telling the truth by the Mario media disinformation cam- Monday before Election Day. paign from mid-October on. But in any case, New York by M.N.R. Nationally, the Democrats was different. Everyone in In one sense, of course, the were first supposed to lose the media expected Cuomo toppling of Mario Cuomo badly, and then came the to win handily down to the from his New York throne Gingrich contract, and then wire by several percentage was part and parcel of the na- Clinton looked Presidential points. Instead, Pataki won tionwide people’s revolution wlde out of the country., and by 4 percent. What in the against the Democrat Party. the media began to hype the world happened? One straw

8 January 1995 ROTHEARD-ROCKWELL REPORT in the wind; in its pdection -been most comfortable con- grown up in rural Pennsylva- issue, the politically savvy ducting campaigns ibrn the nia, and how it was impor- weekly New York Observer t;igh$ his last great triumph tant to know how to shoot had two interviews with the was the centrist ”fusion” Re- gophers because horses supposedly winning Cuomo publicamLiberal campaign of would stumble into gopher camp. To the reporter’s Rudolph Giuliani for Mayor holes and break their legs. stunned surprise, David of New York, ousting the Mario’s riposte was in the Garth, the legendary cam- black leftist incumbent David best tradition of devastating paign head for Cuomo, in- Dinkins. New York wit: ”Lew,” he stead of being euphoric or In the opposite corner han- said, “in all the fdty years I cocky, was elegiac, mod, dling George Pataki: the con- have lived in the borough of apologetic about his mis- servative-libertarian Repub- Queens I have never once takes. And another Observer lican, the shadowy, reclusive seen a horse fall into a gopher journalist reported that the Art Finkelstein. Finkelstein’s hole.” End of Lehrman. pre-election mood in the most recent coup was the The wit has long gone, Cuomo camp was one of brilliantly-run campaign of however. Mario had also ”quiet desperation,” trying 1992, electing Al DAmato for charmed New Yorkers by Itis mightily to bring out the U.S. Senate against the nagging, hectoring, intrusive black vote in New York City. anointed liberal Democrat style. Let any radio or TV talk ASRockwell~laiIlS,ifpOliti- klutz Bob Abrams. DAmato show host criticize Mario, and cal candidates have a lot of managed to overcome “ethics” the governor was immedi- money, they can see what’s charges to defeat the color- ately on the phone, rebutting, happening far better than the less, over-confident Abrams. attacking, griping. Any jour- media, because they take Particularly notable was nalist who criticized him got daily ”tracking polls” that can Finkelstein’s slogan for A1 an angry or a needling phone pinpoint the coming election DAmato, intoned repeatedly call. At first, this seemed results. The media were off on Tv: “Bob Abrams, hope- ptMariowasalive,aware, base, but Garth knew lessly liberal.” in-your-face, a true New Dave Garth had a big prob- Yorker. But after years of this, The Super Bowl of lem on his hands. Not only New Yorkers grew weary, es- Campaign Consultants was1994loomingasaRepub- pecially since Mario didn’t do At the heart of the Cuomo- lican year, but New York was anythmg. As term after term Pataki struggle was a war be- sick, sick, sick of their former dragged on, and after twelve tween the rival political darling, Mario. Mario had years in office, Mario’s accom- consultants/campaign man- begun as witty and eloquent; plishments werenil: the only agers, arguably the two best he ori@y won the gover- results he bmught inhis wake in the business. Both men are norship in 1982 in a tight race were higher taxes, more tough, smart, abrasive, New against the bright but humor- crime, more welfare. During York ethnics. Heading the less conservative Republican the summer, one of those in- Cuomo camp was Dave Lew Lehrman. Cuomo won it cidents ocmthat stuckin Garth, the Founding Father of in debates with Lehrman,his New Yorkers’ minds as sum- modern political consulting, quick wit effective on radio ming up the bog of decay that who cut his eye teeth in the and TV.A highlight was the had slowly but surely settled Adlai Stevenson campaign of time that Lehrman tried to in New York. The state main- 1952. Garth began as a liberal explain to fiercely pro-gun tains a recorded I-LoveNew Democrat, but has moved control New Yorkers why he York phone line, that anyone rightward over the years to wasopposed.Lehrmandriftied could call to get information become a centrist Democrat. off into an elaborate and ram- on what‘s going on in the aty. In recent years, Garth has bling explanation how he had But during the campaign it

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was revealed that because of appointee’s report laid COP ing on behalf of a corporation high costs and high taxes in ,spicuous blame for total irt from the Senator’s office. New York, the actual phone tcompetence on Dinkins and (That, however, was rot illegal operation had to be moved to on his inept black Police though it looked bad; the ac- rural Pennsylvania! Oh, Commissioner Benjamin tual criminal charge was a bi- Mario, Mario! ’Ward. The Cuomo Crown zam accusationthat Armand How would Garth play the .Heights report was the deci- had committed some sort of Cuomo campaign? For the sive factor inbeating Dinkins fraud bypn?tmdingto lobby first several months, Garth imd electing Giuliani. for the company, but not re- went positive, showing com- So when Garth went posi- ally doing so.) mercials stressing Mario’s tive for Cuomo, there wasn’t As a short-run tactic, the nobility, his stature, his ac- :dymuch positive to say. As demonizing by Garth of complishments, etc. But what a matter of fact, the copious DAmato was highly effec- accomplishments, exactly? ‘I’V spots showing Mario say- tive, and Al got rattled, com- Here we have to realize that ing ”elect me for another four mitting a series of gaffes in while most politically aware yearsJso I can finish the job,” mid-October. The most dam- Americans have long re- istruck most New Yorkers as a aging error, in this P.C. age, garded Cuomo as the leader ;grotesquejoke. Finish what was a quip D’Amato was of the liberal-Left, New York’s bob, Mario? overheard making to Pataki‘s strident and voluble Hard The Left in New York, usu- glamorous lieutmt-gover- Left has long felt very differ- ally loud to proclaim the im- nor running mate, Betsy ently. Itispdybecauseof portance of ”issues” versus McCaughey. D’Amato was Cuomo’s great gfts that the personalities, implored Mario anxious to line up the coyly Hard Left has felt bitterly be- to go mgative against the vir- neutral Rudolph Giuliani for trayed. Apart from speeches, tually unknown Pataki, a an October endorsement of a thirst for power, higher farmer and then State Senator Pataki for governor; after all, taxes and a stubborn insis- hpmP&kill,uptheHudson they were both in the same tence on vetoing the death Valley from New York City. party. DAmato laughingly penalty, Mario hadn’t really Apparently, leftist reporters suggested to Betsy: “Why done a darn thing to bring uncovered some shady ”eth- don’t you make Rudy an ofkr socialism to New York State. ics” dealings by the bland, he can’t refuse?” Immediately For the Left and for the handsome, slightly goofy- the assembled harridans of blacks, Mario’s biggest be- looking Pataki. Left feminism rose up in their trayal was his implicit col- Garth, however, was no righteous wrath and de- laboration with Giuliani in longer comfortable going nounced poor A1 from one 1993 to dump the disastrous negative against conserva- end of the state to the other. It David Dinkins. The Left and tives. He launched another got to the point, where, at a the blacks couldn’t forgive or kiack: he went regative against crucial late October stage of forget the fact that the deci- A1 D’Amato, continually the race, Al DAmato had to sive element in swinging that )lasting DAmato and derid- skip town on ”vacation” dnd tight race to Giuliani was ng Pataki as a mere puppet leave for California. Cuomo’s investigator’s stra- If the Republican Senator. Shortly afterward, onocto- tegically-timed report on the fiere wmD’Amato’s ethical ber 24, Garth pulled his seem- famed August 1991 black not xoblems, for which he had ingly decisive coup: inducing in Crown Heights, Brooklyn xencleared,andparticularly his old client Rudy to cross The Australian Hasidic he rather confusing, highly parties and endorse Cuomo scholar Yankel Rosenbaum :ethnical but still serious in- for governor. Everyone was had there been killed by a iictment of Al’s beloved all smiles at the photo-op: black mob. The Cuomo irother Armand, for lobby- Rudy yammering about how

10 January1995 R(: THBARD-ROCKWELL RJ5K good this would be for the -popped up an unknown Peekskill. But the media, city of New York (i.e. New mini-Perot, a centi-million- themselves lazy, adopted a York State funds and goodies aire computer payroll mag- strategy of not airing any galore), and Cuomo and his nate from Rochester, B. negative reports, in other stooges blathering about how Thomas Golisano. Running words, not giving free public- Giuliani showed high ”cour- on the small but permanent ity to any material that the age,” devotion to ”principle,” ballot line, the Independence campaign itself wasn’t willing etc. mat”principle,” pray Fusion Party, Golisano to push on television. In other tell? Picking the highest bid- poured millions of his own words, no free media rides, der? The Giuliani October be- money into the campaign, at- unless the Cuomo campaign trayal was one of many cases tacking Patakifiom thenght, was willing to pay for TV where liberal Republicans and promising much deeper spots. But neither Garth nor made their late, cheap hit tax cuts than Pataki was sup- Cuomo were willing to lower against the candidates of their porting. By the end of Octo- Mario’s dignity by going own party, participating in ber, Golisano was getting 14 public with such material. Be what Sam Francis aptly calls percent in the statewide polls, sides, why do so when the tri- the ”Backstabbing Faction’’ of and over 30 percent, in his umphal reelection of Cuomo the Republican Party. It home area of Rochester. Since was wrapped up? shouldn’t be forgotten, how- almost all of these votes ever, that Rudy was taking a would be drawn from Pataki, The Comeback Kid neatly calculated risk; not the Golisano race seemed to In the meantime, Art only did his action seem de- insure a Cuomo reelection. Finkelstein had not been idle. cisive, but Rudy’s other And Cuomo had accom- Before things seemed to fall power base in New York poli- apart in the fall, tics, the Liberal Party, should Patakihadbeen not be overlooked. They, as doing very well. Cuomo backers, were Pataki went pleased. Giuliani had been negative very the ”Republican-Liberal” early, keeping candidate for Mayor in 1993. the emphasis There was another reason on everyone’s why Mario seemed to have it weariness with wrapped up by late October. Mario. For pos- During the summer, a third- itives, Pataki party candidate suddenly stayed pleasant popped up, a man who had and vague, con- far greater potential for dam- centrating on aging Pataki than the the tax cut issue floperoo ex-Libertarian can- that had elected didate, radio shock jock Christine Whit- Howard Stem. man in New Jer- The centerpiece issue of sey, supplemen- Pataki’s campaign was the ted of course by promise of a large 25 percent attacking the income tax cut, basing him- high crime rate. self on the successful Chris- For the nega- tine Whitman race for nounced federal HUD grants tive, Finkelstein drew on the governor of New Jersey in that had found their way to a highly effective slogan that 1992. But all of a sudden there Pataki legal client in had elected A1 D’Amato in

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~~ his very tight race for U.S. -ate already sick of politicians. symbol of the hated City, Senate against Bob Absams. Moreover, Giuliani adminis- would be popular upstate?All In the new Pataki slogan re- tration officials, hailing the it did was underline the peated again and again: endorsement of Cuomo, in- Pataki attack strategy. Imme- "Mario Cuomo, too liberal, cautiously told newsmen diately Finkelstein purchased for too long," Finkelstein bril- that they were counting on additional anti-Giuliani TV liantly encapsulated in the $150 million in ineased state ads on upstate stations, and last five words both the liber- aid to New York City once also mobilizedvisible protests alism and the long twelve Mario was re-elected. outside all of Giuliani's up- years that people had had to That admission was allthat state news conferences. After put up with Cuomo. Finkelstein needed. Keeping the election, Kieran Money By the time of Giuliani's Pataki himself above the fray another top Pataki strategist, endorsement, twoweeks and Finkelstein ran a TV commer- gloated: "I thank the Mayor one day before the election, cial using surrogatescharpg for making that upstate Pataki had held a substantial Cuomo with "buying votes" swing. It was sporting.It was 7 to 8 point lead in Pataki's by cementing the deal with timely. It wasneeded.And he internal tracking polls. the Mayor. On October 29, energized our base by doing Giuliani's late hit endorse- Pataki was sent on a whirl- it." Another Democrat miscal- ment of Cuomo reversed the wind trip to several upstate culation was on how many standing radically; by Octo- cities, hammering on the cor- votes the Giuliani endorse- ber 28, eleven days before rupt bargain theme and rais- ment would actually draw for Election Day, Cuomo had ing the red flag of still more Cuomo. It is true that the vaulted into an enormous 13- taxes going to the City: "Mr. mayor's regime has been point lead. Panic understand- Cuomois sending your had- popular in New York, for get- ably set in in the Pataki camp. earned tax dollars to New ting the cops to crack down What to do? York City." The hated City: a on street bums and making Art Finkelstein's response city that had already been some visible budget cuts. But was thebrilliant masterstroke draining upstaters of vast who not already voting for of the campaign. While the sums of taxes, and for what? Cuomo in New York would Cuomo camp understand- The City: heartland of crime, be swayed by a Giuliani en- ably crowed about the en- and of welfare, where fully dorsement? Precious few. dorsement, the Pataki one-third of the population is Liberals were already pro- campaign hammered away on the dole. In the mean- Cuomo, and those too fed up constantly at what Finkelstein while, in a two-pronged strat- with Mario to vote at all were astutely labeled "the deal"- egy, the Pataki camp not about to be persuaded by what John Randolph of implored the upstate votes the endorsement of a Repub- Roanoke once famously not to "waste their vote" lican-a tiny breed in the city called "the corrupt bargain." against Cuomo and high as it is. More important, the It was "a deal," the Pataki taxes by pulling the lever for blacks in the City could not people charged, forNew York Tom Golisano. forgive Giuliani for over- City to get still more taxpayer On the same day that throwing their beloved funding to leach off upstaters Pataki began his whirlwind Mayor Dinkins, and his en- in the rest of the state.After all, tour upstate, Dave Garth dorsement of Cuomo only why else would Giuliani stab made his big tactical error of underscored the substantial Pataki in the back at the last the campaign. He sent Rudy Cuomo role in defeating minute? The Cuomo-Garth Giuliani on an upstate tour of Dinkins. Generally, blacks emphasis on Rudy's "cour- his own to counter Pataki. But and Hispanics need a strong age" and "integrity" didn't why in the world would motivation to go to the polls cut much ice with an elector- Garth think that Giuliani, the at&. The blacks now had no

12 January 1995 ROTHBARD-ROCKWELL REPORT such motivation, despite the York. He became know years upstate a sizzling 69 percent, best efforts of Dinkins’s ago as ”Senator Pothole,” for while the city came out with former deputy mayor, the ad- his assiduous attention to the a feeble 46 percent. The size of vertised black ”political ge- humdrum, day-to-day needs the margins reflected the out- nius,” Bill Lynch, to get out of his constituents. And pouring of anti-New York the vote in Harlem and shortly before Election Day, City votes upstate. Thus, Bedford-Stuyvesant. Al was gloriously vindicated, New York City gave 70 per- In the wake held at Cuomo for his beloved brother cent of its total vote to headquarters on Election Armand was not only freed Cuomo, only down two per- Night, Mario’s top two politi- by the appeals court, but the cent from his last electoral cal strategists-Garth and judges threw out Armand’s victory in 1990; Cuomo’s per- head boss of the Liberal party, indictment and conviction as centage in the suburbs, how- Raymond Harding-admit- outrageous; why was this ever, dropped sharply from ted that the much-sought man being prosecuted at all? 50 to 43 percent; while his Giuliani en- Go get ’em on percentage upstate fell like a dorsement had Whitewater, Al! stone, from a respectable 46 proved counter- percent four years ago to only productive. Too 32 percent this year. Combine late now! the low turnout in the City Moreover, in How Pataki with the anti-Cuomo out- retrospect, it is Did It pouring upstate, and you clear that the Politically and have the fateful defeat. basic Garth geographically Upstate, the key was the strategy of de- New York State vote of the three large cities, monizing A1 may be divided Buffalo, Rochester, and Syra- D’Amato didn’t into three sec- cuse, usually so heavily really work ei- tions: heavily Democratic that they carry ther. After all, liberdandk- their respective counties sol- A1 D’Amato ocratic New idly for the Democrats (Erie, may be rude, York City, the Monroe, and Onondaga re- crude, and in- moderately Re- spectively). In 1990, each of your-face, but publican sub- these counties had gone sub- in this and in urbs of the City stantially for Cuomo. This the way he (LongIslandand year, however, the worm looks and talks, Westchester), turned Erie going for Pataki Alis a trueNew and heavily Re- by 36,000 votes, Monroe by Yorker. He may be an abra- publican upstate. The key to 21,000, and Onondaga by sive ethnic to heartland a statewide victory by either 49,000-The latter a whop- Americans, he might not play party, is (a) the size of the ping 2:l. The Pataki cam- in Peoria, but he is quint- margin in each region, and (b) paign was also remarkably essentially New York. Why the size of the regional turn- effective in smashing the should a demonizing strat- outs. New York State has a Golisano vote: estimated be- egy work? After all, it was total of 8.8 million registered fore the election at about 14 only two years ago that A1 voters; of these, 57 percent percent overall and at more swept in, defeating Bob came out to vote. But the than 33 percent in his home Abrams by over a million turnout rates differed radi- base of Rochester, Golisano votes. Hard as it may be for cally over the regions: the wound up with a measly 4 non-New Yorkers to realize, suburbs turned out a modest percent of the total, and only they love D’Amato in New 53 percent of eligible votes, 20 percent in Monroe.

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Vacco, who had been pound- rowly but substantially, by The Rest of the Ticket ing away credibly on crime three percentage points. The There were two other state- and the death penalty but outcome was a big surprise wide races this year in New hadn’t caught fire, willing to and a shock to the left, Karen York. The Attormy-Gemral‘s do the job himself.Which sur- Burstein holding a kind of race was supposed to go rogate would step forward therapy pupfor her lesbian handily to the very left-wing, and tell the imprtant but un- sisters at campaignheadquar- very abrasive, Democrat, palatable truth? ters, everyone sobbing and Jewish lesbian Karen Bur- Finally in mid-October, up denouncing ”homophobia,” stein. A former State Senator to the plate stepped the co* and Burstein reading a poem and family judge in Brook- servative Guy V. Molinari, from Auden that was sol- lyn, Burstein had been Borough President of Staten emnly quoted in full by the around for a long time, Island, a small conservative adoring press the mxt day. Go whereas her Republican op- Italian and Irish Catholic bor- quote Auden in private, ponent, Dennis Vacco, a ough of New York City which Burstein! former U.S. Attorney from had voted last year infavor of After the election, MOM Buffalo, was virtually un- secession from the detested summed it up: “By the time known. The New York City city. Molinari, who couldn’t the election rolled around, I left was set to celebrate the care less about the New York don’t think there was a tmy first state-wide victory in the rimes or the Kllage Voice, hamlet in that state that U.S.of an open lesbian. The had the courage to point out wasn’t awaremt only was she problem was that, while her the Emperor’s lack of clothes. a lesbian but.. .hat she had a supporters were of course fa- Karen Burstein is an open les- gay and lesbian agenda.. ..It miliar with and celebrated biaqMolirraricharged,andas probably made the difference Burstein’s gay agenda, the a lesbian she should rot be in in the election” rather naive and socially con- charge of enforcing the law of Apart from Senator Moyni- servative upstate public had New York State, which some- han, a centrist Irish Catholic no clue to what was going on. times include the outlawry of who won his inevitable This of course often happens lesbian activities. A storm of smashing victory against the with special interest groups: liberal abuse heaped upon hapless, Republican liberal They know the real poop, Molinari’s head, while Vacco donahe, Bernadette Castm, while the majority., blissfully himself protested that one’s the only statewide Republi- unaware, don’t have a clue. sexual activity ism om else’s can who lost, shockingly It was important, then, for business. But as the issue snatching defeat from the someone, some Republican, caught fire, Vacco added that jaws of a Republican tide, was to call attention to Karen private activity was om thing Herbert London. London lost Burstein’s potential electoral but a political lesbian agenda the Comptrollership race to disability upstate. But who was something quite differ- the only black on either ticket, was going to do it? No one ent, and a legitimate issue to the bland Carl McCall from wanted to be the sacrificial attack. By the end of the cam- Harlem, who had been ap- lamb, to incur the wrath of paigq Vacco was able to point pointed to the vacancy by the left and the liberal media, out that a Burstein campaign Cuomo 18 months before. no one wanted to be de- flier proudly proclaimed that McCall was supposed to be nounced as reactionary and she would ”help lead the the weakest Democrat on the ”socially intolerant.” Cer- fight for lesbians and gay statewide ticket. So how did tainly not the ”socially toler- men in New York and across he manage to beat the conser- ant” Pataki. DAmato wasn’t America.” What”fightJ” ex- vative London, who had run going to stick his neck out on actly? a very good race for governor this one. And neither was In the end, Vacco won nar- on the Conservative ticket

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-four years earlier, almost persuaded by the DAmatc to flow Rudy's way in the beating out the tomfool Re- forces to take the Comp- next few years. In addition, publican candidate, the Wall troller's spot on the ticket. But Pataki moved effectively be- Street economist Pierre London couldn't keep his hind the scenes to dump the Rinfret? mouth shut, and twice he long-time Nestor of the Re- McCall and London were deeply angered the Republi- publican Left in New York supposed to be neck-and- cans by openly attacking State, State Senate majority neck in the polls; so how did Pataki, the head of his own leader Ralph Marino, whom he wind up with a six point ticket, and suggested that Pa- the Senate Republicans kicked margin, the first black ever to taki either lead or get out of outinbehalfof themnservative beeleded to a statewide office the way. Joseph Bruno. In a desperate in New York? But worse than that: Lon- attempt to save his precious In the first place, McCall, a don, an Orthodox Jew, made power job, Marino offered to former banker, raised a lot as the central theme of his sacrifice his widely hated more money, and he poured campaign: anti-Semitism!de- long-time counsel and theo- out TV attacks on London's nouncing the Crown Heights retician, Angel0 Mangia, but conservative views. As a riots and tryrns to implicate Marino had no takers. Both black, moreover, he was able McCall as a black anti-Semite. Mangia and his boss are out, to bring out more support This absurd charge was and Marino is now talking than the others from black promptly rebutted by the elegaidyofimmediate& neighborhoods. But, after all, McCall camp, bringing out ment. 1994 was the end of a it was a conservative and a several prominent Jews to political era in New York State white political year, and these protest this outrage.But more in more ways than one. H factors were not the keys to importantly, Herb London McCall's surprising victory. never seemed to realize that The key is that Herb London while Crown Heights and blew the race, committing a charges of anti-Semitismmay series of wrong-headed and go over big in Brooklyn, up- Why They Hate almost ludicrous miscalcula- state WASPs and Catholics Jesse tions. Let's face it Herb London really don't spend their days goofed. worrying about Jews and by JustinRaimondo One problem is that Herb anti-Semitism. It is simply not When Senator Jesse Helms was a visible sorehead. He their central concern, and un- dared state the obvious-that had tried to run for governor, til he wises up to this central Bill Clinton is not only "not andhis delegates at the Repub- fact of life, Herb London will up to the job of Commander- lican state convention were never win a statewide election. in-Chief, "but also widely strong-armed by DAmato so hated by our men and as not only to nominate Coda women in uniform-the Pataki, but also to deprive And so justice pretty much firestorm of protest was way London of the 25 percent he triumphed in the New York out of proportion to the al- needed to get automatically election. After the election, leged crime. The story ran for on the primary ballot without George Pataki moved swiftly three solid days, and gave rise having to go through the dif- if quietly to punish the to a spate of Hate Jesse articles ficult process of gathering sig- Backstabbing Republican that pilloried the 73-year-old natures. London denounced Left. It took two weeks for SenatorfromNorthCarolina. this deed as an outrage, and Pataki to return Giuliani's The media lynch mob was threatened to run against Election Night congratulatory out for blood, and pundits of Pataki on the Conservative phone call, and it is pretty both the left and the right ticket, whereupon he was clear that goodiesarenot going were unanimous in their as-

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