-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Click Here: <A HREF="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000229/el/friends_vs__nobodies_1.html" >McCain Using Unknowns in NY Battle</A> ----- Politics HeadlinesAdd to My Yahoo! Tuesday February 29 6:00 AM ET McCain Using Unknowns in NY Battle By JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press Writer ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - In New York's Republican presidential primary, Gov. George W. Bush (news - web sites) has famous names like Teddy Roosevelt IV and millionaire lawyers running as prospective delegates. Sen. John McCain (news - web sites) has a sandhog. In the March 7 contest, with polls showing the two in a dead heat and where complicated election laws benefit the party favorite - Bush - it's also boiling down to a fight between the Texas governor's famous friends and the Arizona senator's brigade of unknowns. But Christopher Conroy, the sandhog who says he's most at peace 800 feet underground working on a water tunnel from New York City to the Catskills, isn't worried about name ID. ``If people are going to go into that booth and go for McCain, I don't really believe that even if you put Governor George Pataki's name there, it would really matter,'' said Conroy, 40, who is trying to educate McCain supporters about the state's ballot process. In New York, Republicans vote for delegates - not the presidential candidates - in each of the state's 31 congressional districts. They each send three delegates to the party convention. Making things even more difficult for McCain is the fact that delegates' names appear in bold type. Advisories in smaller type tell voters who each prospective delegate is committed to. Because of that, having big-names as delegates is considered a powerful political plus. And Bush, with backing from both Pataki and state GOP Chairman William Powers, has the advantage. Powers said when Republicans walk into the voting booth next Tuesday ``they will see names they recognize and that they trust.'' In just one eastern New York congressional district, Bush's delegate slate includes state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue and Rep. John Sweeney. Another upstate district has state Sens. James Wright and Ronald Stafford as well as former state Sen. H. Douglas Barclay, a millionaire Syracuse-area lawyer. In New York City, the Bush names aren't as well known, but some familiar ones do show up. In Conroy's Brooklyn district, Bush has Roosevelt - the great-grandson of Teddy Roosevelt, the nation's 26th president and New York's 33rd governor - as a delegate choice. McCain's prospective delegates aren't as well known. While Rep. Peter King supports McCain, the Long Island congressman came on board too late to become a delegate. The best-known McCain backer on the ballot is Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari, a former congressman and the father of former Rep. Susan Molinari. Even McCain's eight-member paid political staff in New York is largely made up of people with only local political experience. ``They have the generals, but we have the foot soldiers,'' Gerry O'Brien, McCain's New York political director, said of Bush's team. To counter the name-recognition problem, O'Brien and other McCain supporters have been pitching the life stories of delegates such as Conroy in hopes that voters may remember some of those names when they enter the voting booths. Bruno, who said he favors making the ballot clearer by enlarging the presidential candidate's name, said he nonetheless thinks Republicans are smart enough to find the person they want to vote for. ``They know there's a big name and there's a small name, and they're going to look for that small name,'' said Bruno. ``Now, will some people follow me or the lieutenant governor or Congressman Sweeney and feel like, `I could go either way, so I'd like to go with people I know?' I hope so.'' Conroy isn't bothered. ``People don't have a problem voting for me, as long as John McCain comes out the winner,'' he said. 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