Vol.61/No.35 October 13, 1997
SWP Candidates Join New York Debates
Wendy Lyons (center), a garment worker and the Socialist
Workers Party candidate for comptroller in New York City,
participates in debate with the incumbent, Democrat Alan
Hevesi, and Genevieve Torres of the Independence Party
September 29. The week before, Shoghi Fret, also a garment
worker and leader of the Young Socialists in New York,
debated with the other candidates for public advocate,
incumbent Democrat Mark Green and Jules Polonetsky, a
Democratic assemblyman picked by the current mayor, Rudolph
Giuliani, to run on the Republican and Liberal Party lines.
Socialist candidate Olga Rodríguez, a member of the
International Association of Machinists, will participate in
the mayoral debate October 9. The debates, sponsored by the
city campaign board, are carried live on New York One cable
television station and on WNYC radio.
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