Word: ferraro
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...Democrat Geraldine Ferraro, a former assistant district attorney running for Congress from the New York borough of Queens, beat Republican Alfred DelliBovi by ten percentage points. She campaigned on the issues of crime, neighborhood deterioration and help for the elderly...
Like many other housewives in the New York borough of Queens, she prides herself on being a good mother and wife, cooking breakfast each day for her husband and children and always trying to be home for dinner. But Ferraro is spending her time between meals these days doing something that few women in Queens?or elsewhere?have considered: running for Congress...
...lives in the "Archie Bunker" district, so called because it includes the streets lined with stucco houses that are shown at the beginning of All in the Family. The mostly working-class district is populated by Irish, Italians and Germans, along with pockets of blacks. Last spring Ferraro, 43, quit her job as an assistant district attorney, hired a campaign manager and opened her headquarters. Says she: "I wasn't going to run this campaign over a kitchen table." To help finance her race for the seat vacated after 32 years by the retirement of Democrat James Delaney, she dipped...
Geraldine Ferraro is one of only 47 women nominated for the House and Senate this year, a startlingly small number after a decade of feminist attempts to break old stereotypes. Indeed, in 1962 there were 20 women in Congress?18 in the House and two in the Senate. But next week women will probably win only 18 seats in the House and none in the Senate. Says South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Nominee Nancy Stevenson: "If there's any movement, it's been backward...
Nevertheless, Geraldine Ferraro eagerly trots down the campaign trail, suffering the trials common to all candidates as well as those peculiar to women. A staff member makes a scheduling mistake, and she ends up at a marina when she is supposed to be at another boat basin; the March of Dimes bike-a-thon starts without her. As she walks down a Queens street handing out literature, one woman whispers to her husband: "She's very pretty, isn't she?" A man urges her to "get the electric chair going as soon as possible." At a housing project, a middle...