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Decrying ‘personal attack,’ Dobelle tells about financesBy Grier HornerEvan S. Dobelle, in response to a challenge from Albert A. Bogdan, today issued a statement on his personal finances and quipped. it'Jl shatter my affluent Republican image.”The Bogdan challenge was laid down last night in the first meeting of the two mayoral candidates since last week's primary in which Dobelle scored a two-to-one victory.Bogdan called on Dobelle to! follow the Bogdan lead and reveal his personal resources and explain his mysterious consulting company.Sees ‘personal attack’Dobelle termed the challenge a “personal attack on his integrity and said it was ‘‘reprehensible . . . political gamesmanship.” Bogdan this morning said the attack claim was nonsense. He said he was not dealing with personalities but with the issue of qualifications.. _■— . -t ?*■This morning Dobelle said he has no savings, no stocks, less1st snowfall is reportedThe first sightings of snow were made in several points throughout Berkshire County yesterday. A snow-like substance was reported to have fallen on North Street around noon but quickly dissolved into a light rain. Sightings from scattered , points in Richmond, Adams, Lenox and Williams-town ranged from rain and sleet” to a few definite snow-than $500 in the checking account, one 1969 automobile, one sailboat and one canoe.”“I own no property but hope to purchase the home we live in from my parents in the near fu-. ture. • I pay monthly rent, plus reimbursing them almost $1,000 for annual property taxes.”Dobelle said his consulting firm, which he reactivated in May after losing the Republican primary for state senator, has brought in “several thousand dollars since then.‘Nothing mysterious’The 28-year-old candidate said “there is nothing mysterious about the firm, Wilmington, Stonewall Associates. “1 wonder why . Mr. Bogdan didn't think it was mysterious when the Urban Coalition received a $25 donation from Wilmington, Stonewall Associates two years ago,” Do-belle said. Bogdan is the $20,000-a-year executive director of the UrbatvCoalition:. •_.......Dobelle said he is still paying off his wife's educational debts but that otherwise he doesn’t owe anything.After eight months of campaigning, Dobelle said. I don't have much.”He said his company would be making more money if he wasn't campaigning and pictured the business, which he operates out of his office, as ameans of making enough money to meet my obligations and remain independent while I seek public office.”Dobelle, who has not disclosed the names of his clients, has said the company performs consultant services in the educational and business fields.Just before the primaries Bogdan released a statement putting his income at $20,000. plus $360 from interest and stock. He said he owns a $25,000 home with a $19,000 mortgage and a 1970 car.Bogdan also listed his campaign expenses and donations.To file reportDobelle said he will file his campaign expenses and contributions with the city clerk as required by law — within 30 days of the primary — and noted that Bogdan has not yet Tiled his official report.According to Bogdan a re-evaluation of personal finances and contributions is needed in this era of a poisoned national political atmosphere.”. Dobelle said he announced back in June that his books on campaign expenses are open to examination and still are.Last night's forum, held before a capacity audience of 60 in Briggs School’s basement library, was sponsored by the Briggs PTO and moderated by PTO President Gwendolyn j Wilde.I Ward 6 candidatesj During the evening, the Wardi 6. Council candidates gave theiri views.‘ Incumbent Paul E. Brindle ill said he had decided to run 21it years ago because there had been no action on West Side redevelopment, the proposed West Side community school and the proposed North Street commercial redevelopment.
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The Berkshire Eagle
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, US
Wed, Oct 17, 1973
Page 35
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