Nation : ferraro considering comeback


Nation : ferraro considering comeback

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WASHINGTON — Geraldine A. Ferraro, the first woman to win a slot on a major party’s presidential ticket, said she’s considering a political comeback. Ferraro, Walter Mondale’s running mate


on the 1984 Democratic ticket, is weighing a challenge to New York Republican Sen. Alfonse D’Amato. The former three-term congresswoman said she isn’t worried that a political campaign would


resurrect hurtful stories about her or her family. “I don’t think there’s very much that the people of this state or this nation don’t know about me or about my family,” Ferraro said in a


telephone interview from New York. Ferraro, 54, was hounded by questions about her family’s finances during the 1984 campaign. She later complained that her political fame hurt her family


and led to harsher court treatment of her husband and son. Her husband, John Zaccaro, pleaded guilty in 1985 to a misdemeanor charge in a real estate deal. Her son, John Jr., later was


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