Because I couldn't look like I was whining or upset about it. Within the campaign, tensions arose; after she wasnt given the chance to weigh in on their campaign schedule in an early strategy meeting, Ferraro suggested Mondales staffers imagine her as a grey-haired Southern gentleman and treat her accordingly. A New York City schoolteacher, Geraldine attended Fordham Law in the evening and was one of two women in her class. [29] She was admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar in 1978. In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro made history as the first woman to run for Vice President on a major party ticket alongside Democratic candidate Walter Mondale (via Time ). That is how Donna Zaccaro describes the event 37 years ago when Democratic Presidential nominee Walter Mondale selected her mother, New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, to be the first. [1][8][18] Ferraro was one of only two women in her graduating class of 179. Ferraros path to politics involved night classes at Fordham Law in Manhattan while working a day job as an elementary school teacher in Queens, a stretch of time devoted solely to raising her children, and a return to the workforce at age 38 as a prosecutor for the Queens Special Victims Bureau. [201] In a friendly joint retrospective of her 1984 debate with George H. W. Bush, Ferraro said she had had more national issues experience in 1984 than Palin did now, but that it was important that Palin make a good showing in her vice presidential debate so that "little girls [could] see someone there who can stand toe to toe with [Biden]. The Reagan White House worried it could cause serious trouble for Republicans in 1984, while feminist groups pressured lawmakers to foreground womens rights issues in their campaigns and held voter registration drives. [200][201][202] Palin mentioned Ferraro as well as Clinton as forerunners in her introductory appearance. Jeffrey, who had deep ties among labor, civil rights, and womens rights activists, was convinced, and shed drop Ferraros name in conversations with her peers when the topic turned to potential vice presidents. At the start of 1998, Ferraro left Crossfire and ran for the Democratic nomination again in the 1998 United States Senate election in New York. President Obama describes Ferraro as a political "trailblazer". Ferraro suffered complications from . [110] Unlike 1992, the contest was not divisive, and Ferraro and third-place finisher Green endorsed Schumer at a unity breakfast the following day. [49], In all, Ferraro served three two-year terms, being re-elected in 1980 and 1982. Stay at this 5-star luxury hotel in Gaziantep. The lawyer whod helped Mondale with his own vice-presidential debate eight years prior, Bob Barnett, oversaw Ferraros debate prep. "[54] The Mondale campaign hoped that her selection would change a campaign in which he was well behind; in addition to attracting women, they hoped she could attract ethnic Democrats in the Northeast U.S. who had abandoned their party for Reagan in 1980. [28][140] In 1999, she joined the board of the Bertarelli Foundation,[165] and in 2003, the board of the National Women's Health Resource Center. [105], Ferraro is one of only four U.S. women to run on a major party national ticket. Her husband John Zaccaro had pleaded guilty in January 1985, to fraudulently obtaining bank financing in a real estate transaction and had been sentenced to 150hours of community service. The idea of a woman vice president almost got torpedoed after NOWs public threat of a convention-floor rebellion caused Mondale advisors to worry about the selection being seen as a sop to special interest groupsa coded way of saying feminists, organized labor and racial minoritiesfor which hed incurred primary criticism from rival Gary Hart. Men dont do that., White women have got their representative, a black woman delegate to the convention told Gloria Steinem for Ms. magazine, and that makes me proud as a woman, but I need to know that shes going to fight and stand for me.. The third-term representative, a second-generation Italian-American, was the evenings guest of honor; the other women had concluded she was the right woman to do the glass-shattering. (83 percent of them are Democrats, 17 percent Republicans. By a three-to-one margin, voters thought that pressure from women's groups had led to Mondale's decision rather than his having chosen the best available candidate. [24] While Ferraro's pro-choice views conflicted with those of many of her constituents as well as the Catholic Church to which she belonged, her positions on other social and foreign policy issues were in alignment with the district. Echoing a statement she wrote about herself in 1988,[31] Ferraro said that "I was talking about historic candidacies and what I started off by saying (was that) if you go back to 1984 and look at my historic candidacy, which I had just talked about all these things, in 1984, if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would have never been chosen as a vice-presidential candidate. The National Organization for Women (NOW) and its president, Eleanor Smeal, looked at the exit poll data and dubbed the difference the gender gap. While the concept of the gender gap can oversimplify nuanced voter behavior, parsing the meaning of this gulf between men and women voters has become a mainstay of American elections ever since. In August of 1984, he was removed as a court-appointed conservator because he had lent money from the estate to his own business, then repaid it. [54], By the last week of July, however, questionsdue initially to reporting by The New York Times[37]began about Ferraro's finances, the finances of her husband, John Zaccaro, and their separately filed tax returns. But I just wish it could have been done in a different way. Afterward, the press asked whether shed cried when reading the news. [69] Zaccaro did not understand the greater public exposure that his wife's new position brought to their family, and resisted releasing his financial information. "[104] The scrutiny of her husband and his business dealings presaged a trend that women candidates would face in American electoral politics. An overwhelming defeat on the New York Times front page, November 8, 1984, At some campaign stops, Ferraro would amp up the crowds by asking them, The pollsters and pundits say we cant win in NovemberBut I want to take my own scientific, objective survey right here. [nb 1] She was also a journalist, author, and businesswoman. [15] She also passed the city exam to become a licensed school teacher. March 26, 2011, 9:43 AM. During the campaign, the congresswoman had been careful not to position herself as a womens-issues candidate, but her pro-choice stance had incurred rare political criticism from an archbishop, and protestors routinely aired their outrage at her appearances and on the steps of the Catholic church her family attended. "[4] Unsatisfied, she decided to attend law school;[4] an admissions officer said to her, "I hope you're serious, Gerry. [103][104] Ferraro said, "I consider myself completely vindicated. Sanko Tekstil Isletmeleri Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. was established in 1943 headquartered in Gaziantep, Turkey. P.S. 290 - ACE Academy for Scholars at the Geraldine Ferraro Campus - Niche [179] Its goal was to advise corporations on how to develop more women leaders and make their workplaces more amenable to female employees. [144] Then in October 1993, Clinton promoted her to be United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, saying that Ferraro had been "a highly effective voice for the human rights of women around the world. [174] She was able to make a joint appearance with Palin on Fox News Channel's coverage of the November 2010 midterm elections. She was a board member of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs,[162] and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. [31] As she later wrote, "I had created a monster. Gerry was a very real, down-to-earth, relatable person. [170] A portion of the Act created the Geraldine Ferraro Cancer Education Program, which directs the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an education program for patients of blood cancers and the general public. [200][205] Ferraro criticized the media's scrutiny of Palin's background and family as gender-based and saw parallels with how she was treated by the media during her own run;[200][206] a University of Alabama study also found that media framing of Ferraro and Palin was similar and often revolved around their nominations being political gambles. Memoirist Ferraro in Hindsight: One Vote for Feinstein The Company offers yarn spinning, knitting, dyeing, printing, and confectionery facilities. Theres no way, Ferraro herself had said, with typical candor, at a closed meeting at the National Womens Caucus three months earlier, any presidential candidate is going to choose a woman as a running mate unless hes 15 points behind in the polls.. [30] She grew frustrated that she was unable to deal with root causes, and talked about running for legislative office;[17] Cuomo, now Secretary of State of New York, suggested the United States Congress. [222] In 2009, legislation passed the House of Representatives calling for a post office in Long Island City in Queens to be renamed for Ferraro,[223] and in 2010, the Geraldine A Ferraro Post Office was accordingly rededicated. Advertising Notice Some of her advocates felt that the Mondale campaign wasnt making full use of her mince-no-words dynamism. As a matter of fact, I was so overcome with joy for you that I started crying. Longtime Republicans congratulated her; fans wrote from New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and Italy. Geraldine Ferraro | Fordham [109] Two years after the campaign, the Times finally changed its policy and began using "Ms."[108], Ferraro had relinquished her House seat to run for the vice-presidency. But I know full well the only reason Im on that short list is because Im a woman, she told the Washington Post), feather-duster platinum hair, her figure. [134] D'Amato won the election by a very narrow margin. [186] She assisted with fundraising by assuming an honorary post on the finance committee for Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. [56], As Ferraro was the first woman to run on a major party national ticket in the United States,[nb 1] and the first Italian American,[nb 2] her July 19 nomination at the 1984 Democratic National Convention was one of the most emotional moments of that gathering, with female delegates appearing joyous and proud at the historic occasion. [1], While in Congress, Ferraro focused much of her legislative attention on equity for women in the areas of wages, pensions, and retirement plans. (Many of these discussions, it should be said, happened while the Democrats had yet to choose a suitable man for the top of the ticket.) Held on October 11, the result was proclaimed mostly even by the press and historians;[58][89] women voters tended to think Ferraro had won, while men, Bush. [55] Once there, however, doctors discovered she had come down with pneumonia. The 19th Amendment marks neither the beginning nor the end of the struggle for suffrage. V. My husband does not do business with organized-crime figures, Ferraro to the Los Angeles Times. [8] She became a protg of House Speaker Tip O'Neil,[39] established a rapport with other House Democratic leaders,[29] and rose rapidly in the party hierarchy. 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When. [125] Ferraro emphasized her career as a teacher, prosecutor, congresswoman, and mother, and talked about how she was tough on crime. [124] The D'Amato campaign feared facing Ferraro the most among these, as her Italian ancestry, effective debating and stump speech skills, and her staunch pro-choice views would eat into several of D'Amato's usual bases of support. [nb 2] The positive polling the Mondale-Ferraro ticket received when she joined soon faded, as damaging questions arose about her and her businessman husband's finances and wealth and her Congressional disclosure statements. [21][23], While raising the children, Ferraro worked part-time as a civil lawyer in her husband's real estate firm for 13years. [1][4][8], Ferraro stayed on at Mount Saint Mary's as a boarder for a while, then briefly attended a parochial school in the South Bronx. [78][79] No campaign issue during the entire 1984 presidential campaign received more media attention than Ferraro's finances. [90] In the days leading up to the debate, Second Lady of the United States Barbara Bush had publicly referred to Ferraro as "that four-million-dollarI can't say it, but it rhymes with 'rich'. All this unfolded amid an outpouring of feminist activism and shifting attitudes about women in politics. Bushs camp wasnt as full of acclaim. In Mississippi, she was asked whether she could bake a blueberry muffin; in one "Meet the Press" interview, moderated Marvin Kalb questioned both Could you push the nuclear button? and whether Mondale would have chosen her if not for her gender. They received only 41percent of the popular vote compared to Reagan and Bush's 59percent, and in the Electoral College won only Mondale's home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. "[212] Sarah Palin paid tribute to her on Facebook, expressing gratitude for having been able to work with her the year before and saying, "She broke one huge barrier and then went on to break many more. [173] Her advocacy helped make the new treatments approved and available for others as well. [88], There was one vice-presidential debate between Congresswoman Ferraro and Vice President George H. W. Bush. [3], In 2007, Ferraro received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sons of Italy Foundation. [11] Her mother was adamant that she get a full education,[12] despite an uncle in the family saying, "Why bother? "[17] For her six years in Congress, Ferraro had an average 78percent "Liberal Quotient" from Americans for Democratic Action[nb 3] and an average 8percent rating from the American Conservative Union. [19] He became a realtor and businessman. [2][3][4][5] She had three brothers born before her, but one died in infancy and another at age three. But, as Mondale later reflected to the New York Times, the snowballing scandal cost the already struggling campaign time and momentum.
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