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 "We're Alive and Well and Living in NY"- Farrell, NY State Dem Chair 
  
  
 Voters overwhelmingly defeat Bloomberg plan 
 €€By Glenn Thrush 
 NY NEWSDAY 
 STAFF WRITER; Staff writers Dan Janison, Curtis L. Taylor, William 
 Murphy and Deborah S. Morris contributed to this story. November 5, 2003 
 ` 
 Leave on the lights, the party ain't over. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 
 self-financed bid to scrap the city's century-old system of party 
 primaries went down to resounding defeat yesterday as a fragmented 
 Democratic Party staved off what they feared would be a death blow. 
 In a stunning rebuke, city voters rejected the nonpartisan proposal by a 
 nearly 3-to-1 ratio with 95 percent of the votes counted last night. 
 ` 
 "I think we've proven that you can't put the city up for sale - money 
 doesn't always work," said State Democratic Committee Chairman Herman 
 "Denny" Farrell at a midtown victory celebration attended by many of the 
 city's top Democrats. "We're alive and well and living in New York." 
  
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