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Clintons, Walter Mondale Remember Geraldine Ferraro

Hillary Clinton and a number of other female public officials recalled Geraldine Ferraro as a path-breaking icon and a fierce fighter for her family and her favored causes at a memorial service in Midtown Manhattan this morning among hundreds of her friends and family.

“She is seen correctly as paving the way for my political career Read More

Editorial

For Geraldine Ferraro, a Pioneer

She was a New Yorker, of course, of the only-in kind, a feisty, confident woman who had no problem telling a vice president of the United States where to stick it. Geraldine Ferraro was a formidable woman and a historic political figure who won a victory a generation ago for every American woman who has Read More

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Sunday Reading: Ferraro Is Remembered, Cuomo Is Negotiating, Bloomberg Is Entertaining

Geraldine Ferraro: Obama said, “Sasha and Malia will grow up in a more equal America because of the life Geraldine Ferraro chose to live.” [Jonathan Lemire]

Geraldine Ferraro: “[She] emboldened women across the country to seek public office and helped lay the groundwork for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential candidacy.” [Beth Fouhy and Jay Read More

Passing

Remembering Geraldine Ferraro

New York Times:

Geraldine A. Ferraro, the former Queens congresswoman who in 1984 strode onto a podium to accept the Democratic nomination for vice president and to take her place in American history as the first woman nominated for national office by a major party, died on Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital  in Boston. She Read More

Why Steve Israel Is Doing It

You don’t have to like Steve Israel to respect the bold and risky move he’s apparently on the verge of making.

The fifth-term Long Island congressman, to believe reports that are now leaking out all over, will soon declare his candidacy for the 2010 Democratic Senate nomination, Read More

Paterson’s Choice: The Feminist Versus the Woman

With a decision from the governor just days away, the list of prominent feminist types who have declared support for Caroline Kennedy to fill Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat is a short one. The best-known are probably New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, 79-year-old Representative Louise Slaughter and former Kennedy White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Read More

Obama Bundler Worried About New York Businesswomen

Leonore Blitz, a bundler for Barack Obama and an advocate for women in politics, called to say she is picking up on what she considers a disturbing vibe among Democratic women in the New York business community: supporters of Hillary Clinton are considering voting for John McCain over Obama.

"I’ve been sensing an undercurrent Read More