SWING VOTER.(The Talk of the Town)

Harry Kourounis, who has been shuttling business tycoons and celebrities around New York City in limousines and town cars since 1982, has a saying: "First-rate people get first-class service, and second-rate people get first-class service." Last week, he provided his first-class service to the biographer Kitty Kelley, who was in town for a few days to promote her latest unauthorized work, "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty." Kourounis considers Kelley "first-rate all the way," though, in light of her irreverent portraits of such Republican icons as Frank Sinatra and the Reagans, he guessed that her political views didn't jibe with his own.

Kourounis's busiest day--not to mention Kelley's--was Tuesday, the official release date of "The Family," whose seven hundred and five pages are filled with allegations of cocaine use, infidelity, nepotism, mendacity, and general crumminess. Just before seven in the morning, Kourounis picked up Kelley, her husband, her agent, her editor, and her publicist at a hotel off Columbus Circle.

"Harry, have you heard from your daughter-in-law?" she asked him.

"Not today," he said.

"She has a master's and a Ph.D., right?" Kelley said.

"Two master's, and she's working on her Ph.D."

"She sounds like a brilliant girl."