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Retain thefiVe for
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VOTE TUESDAY, AUGUST 6TH
Fred KORZON-Supervisor Wilma COTTON-Clerk Daiid PAYNE-Treasurer
Trustees
Joseph GENOVESI Sherry STEFANES Jerry J. TOBIAS William R. YAW, Jr.
GREAT REASONS TO RETAIN THE BEST FOR BLOOMFIELD:
❑ The lowest tax rate of any comparable community.
1:1 Exemplary community services including:
M. Highly qualified - Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Services.
ear Road maintenance of paved and gravel residential streets.
gar Prompt snow removal.
ear Water and sewer service including immediate response to emergencies.
❑ Maintaining the existing superior residential character of the Township.
❑ Support of the Mature Minglers program.
❑ Support of the Youth Guidance programs as well as providing 2 youth
liaison officers/serving directly in local schools.
ENDORSEMENTS: Thomas Law,
THE DETRO
(Partial List)
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L Brooks Patterson,
County Executive
Lynn D. Allen,
County Clerk
C. Hugh Dohany,
County Treasurer
George Kuhn,
Drain Commissioner
Gary Cochran
Betty Cohen
Maurice Cohen
Kathy Dalton
Ron Davis
Jim Alexander
Armandb Decapite
Mrs. Steven N. Andrews Joe Dumars
Sam Arslanian
Mel Farr
Mrs. Edward Avadenka Barbara Feldman
Mrs. Thomas Brookover Oscar Feldman
Commissioner
Shelley G. Taub,
Commissioner
Sidney Forbes
Mrs. Bernard A. Friedman
Steve Gordon
Mrs. Barry Grant
William P. Hampton
David V. Johnson
David Lubin
Harris Machus
Al Maas
Nancy McConnell
Richard Mintz
Dennis Morse
Joe Muer
Spencer Partrich
Jack Peitz
William Pulte
Thomas R. Ricketts
Carl Rose, Sr.
Jack Rosenzweig
Mrs. Edward Sosnick
Martin Stoneman
Alan E. Swartz
James A. Williams
Mrs. Thomas Wilson
Philip Vestevich
Tom Vestevich
Vi Vestevich
David Zacks
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Paid for by the Committees to Retain Korzon, Cotton, Payne, Genovesi, Stefanes, Tobias, Yaw
airing on an incumbent in
a judicial race is akin to
swimming the 400-meter
relay with ankle weights.
It's a tough haul.
It's risky, too. Chances are
good that the losers will find
themselves standing in the vic-
tor's courtroom sometime in the
future. At the very least, it
doesn't make for a comfortable
situation; at worst, the van-
quished may sense they can nev-
er get a fair shake from that
judge.
The last time a newcomer un-
seated an incumbent judge in
Oakland County was four years
ago, when Judge Michael Mar-
tone beat Bristol Hunter in the 48th District Court Judge Thomas
52/4 District Court in Troy. The Brookover
upset stung all the more because Judge Brookover in his court-
it so seldom happens.
room.
In the Aug. 6 primary, a four-
All three candidates say
way race will pit three newcom- they're challenging an incum-
ers against 48th District Court bent because the community is
Judge Thomas Brookover, who yearning for a new face on the
is running for his second term bench.
on the bench. The district covers
"[48th District Court Judges]
the Bloomfields, Birmingham, Gus Cifelli and Ed Avadenka are
Keego Harbor, Or-
good judges and deserve to
chard Lake and Syl-
stay. I wouldn't challenge
van Lake.
. '%%, them if they were run-
"Frankly, I've put a
I CS ning," says Ms. Small,
lot on the line to do
who has spent most of
p
it," says Kim Small, a
her legal career as a
36-year-old former Oak-
clerk and staff attorney
land County assistant
for U.S. District Court
prosecutor and current fed-
Judge George LaPlata.
eral court research attorney.
She served as an assistant pros-
Robert Zawideh, a 32-year-old ecutor under Oakland County
attorney in private practice in Prosecutor Richard Thompson
Macomb County, says he told from 1989 to 1990.
Ms. Small, the mother of two
girls — Erica, 5 1/2, and Jessi-
ca, 4 1/2 — and wife of family
physician Sheldon Stern, ex-
plains she's taking on Judge
Brookover because of his be-
havior in the courtroom. While
she has never practiced before
him, Ms. Small says the judge is
verbally abusive toward attor-
neys and litigants in his court-
room.
Her role models, like Judge
LaPlata, Oakland Circuit Court
Judge Hilda Gage and U.S. Dis-
trict Court Judge Bernard Fried-
man, "are real. They don't need
their positions to feel good about
themselves," Ms. Small says.
48th District Court hopeful Kim Small
Ms. D'Agostini, who worked
with Detroit attorney Frank
Judge Brookover at a chance Rhodes and with the Southfield
meeting a few weeks ago not to law firm of Levine, Benjamin be-
take his candidacy personally.
fore joining the county prosecu-
As an executive staff attorney tor's office in 1991, calls Judge
in the Oakland County Prose- Brookover "soft and lenient" on
cutor's Office, Diane D'Agostini, crime. And while she never pros-
34, is likeliest to encounter
t
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