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VALLONE REFUSES TO MAKE YANKEE REFERENDUM BARGAINING TOOL

          New York City Council members say a budget dispute
     between Council Speaker Peter Vallone and Mayor Rudy
     Giuliani "centers on the Mayor's insistence that the Speaker
     drop his call for a referendum on whether the city should
     finance" a new ballpark for the Yankees in Manhattan,
     according to Dan Barry of the N.Y. TIMES.  Yesterday,
     Giuliani vetoed "more than" $196M from the city budget,
     although council members were "quick to point out" that the
     vetoes were "largely symbolic."  Vallone said the council
     will "easily" override the veto (N.Y. TIMES, 6/11).  The
     Mayor's budget vetos came just three hours after Vallone
     "introduced a bill for a referendum on spending public
     money" for a new Yankee ballpark (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 6/11). 
     The referendum "is considered certain to become law" because
     Vallone has "tight control over the Democratic-dominated
     council."  Giuliani said that Vallone's motivation for
     introducing the referendum was "he would get 100,000 more
     votes if he put this on the ballot."  Vallone is seeking the
     Democratic nomination for Governor.  Giuliani: "[T]o create
     a difficult problem in a very sensitive negotiation, which
     this will no doubt do, for a city that has had a terrible
     record at keeping sports teams, just in order to get
     yourself 100,000 votes on the ballot, seems to me the wrong
     thing to do" (Norimitsu Onishi, N.Y. TIMES, 6/11).     


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