1.   Already, the public advocate and comptroller have bristled at suggestions that they cut their office budgets, as has the new Queens borough president.

2.   Among the Democrats, Mark Green, the public advocate, returned to his Upper East Side home to his family.

3.   Apart from the mayoral race, there are campaigns this year for the citywide offices of public advocate and comptroller.

4.   Another Hevesi point is that precious few voters understand that the public advocate stands first in line to move suits, ties and toothbrush into Gracie Mansion.

5.   As the public advocate is first in line of succession to the mayoralty, Green would become the mayor of New York.

6.   As public advocate, the only elective office he has ever held, he has the power to write and propose legislation in the City Council.

7.   As things stand now, that would leave Mark Green, the public advocate and second in succession, as the incumbent Democratic mayor.

8.   As ombudsman, the public advocate can review operations of the city bureaucracy, recommend changes and respond to citizen complaints, but he has no power of enforcement.

9.   At a fund-raising concert for the effort Bill Clinton greeted Mark Green, the former New York City public advocate, at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

10.   Barghouti, a Hebrew speaker and a public advocate of a two-state peace solution, has called himself a political leader rather than a military one.