NEWBURGH, N.Y., Oct. 6 - The Lapis Lounge at the Chianti Ristorante was filled with local business leaders seated at tables draped with light blue tablecloths. This was the 66th Newburgh Developers Association lunch, and each person had paid $15 for a buffet of pasta, eggplant, meatballs and salad, and for a midafternoon chance to talk about revitalizing their small city along the Hudson River. But first, Howard Mills, the Republican assemblyman running for United States Senate, was to speak. "Honey, no Howard Mills is speaking," said Regina Angelo, the deputy mayor, as she escorted a visitor into the back...