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penalties for the wrong-doers eventually precipitated the flap over the Rochester Bank donation. It has also drawn intense fire from the Slaughter campaign.

“Today we will get further inaccuracies and distortions of Congressman Slaughter’s record from a man who does not pay his own property taxes,” Monday’s press release from the Slaughter campaign reads. “Smith’s continued blatant misrepresentations of French Slaughter’s record on the savings and loan issue and other issues show that his totally negative and bankrupt campaign is descending even further into the gutter.”

The release says that Rep. Slaughter voted for “the highest possible civil and criminal penalties tha could be given the savings and loan crooks,” and that Mr. Smith is aware of that.

The release concludes that the challenger “has now lost any credibility as a candidate that he might have had.”

“I think it’s a sign of how desperate they are to find something,” Mr. Smith said. “I think probably they are finding what we found, that they are on the wrong side of a lot of

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