Posted on 03/26/2011 12:50:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democrat and female pioneer for women in politics, Geraldine Ferraro passed away today in the age of 75 from her battle with blood cancer. She was a classy and smart woman who would discuss politics, and may differ with Republicans, but was always respectful.
As a woman, I admire Ferraro’s tenacity and paving the way for others in politics. We may disagree on politics, but she never demeaned the other side. Pure class.
More from CNN:
In 1985, Ferraro was the first female vice presidential candidate from a major U.S. political party when she ran with Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale.
They lost by a landslide to Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and vice presidential candidate George H.W. Bush. In what became the first of Reagan’s two terms in the White House, the Reagan-Bush ticket won the popular vote 58.8% to 40% and then nearly swept the electoral votes, 525 to 13.
In 1978, she was elected as a U.S. representative for the 9th Congressional District of New York and was re-elected in 1980 and 1982.
Sarah Palin wrote on Facebook:
My family and I would like to express our sincere condolences to the family of Geraldine Ferraro. When I had the honor of working alongside Geraldine on election night last year, we both discussed the role of women in politics and our excited expectation that someday that final glass ceiling would be shattered by the election of a woman president. She was an amazing woman who dedicated her life to public service as a teacher, prosecutor, Congresswoman, and Vice Presidential candidate. She broke one huge barrier and then went on to break many more. The world will miss her. May she rest in peace and may her example of hard work and dedication to America continue to inspire all women. Flashback, via RuBegonia on Twitter, of Ferraro and Palin, the only two women VP, talking politics. A profound moment. Two female pioneers for each of their parties.
Remember when Palin became the nominee? Ferraro talked about how proud of a moment it was for women, to have a female in a ticket for the presidency. I’ll always remember that.
Gender is irrelevant.
Ferraro was corrupt and Sarah shouldn’t have praised her.
“A report by a New York State organized-crime investigator says that in 1985 John A. Zaccaro, the husband of Geraldine A. Ferraro, was observed meeting and talking with Robert DiBernardo, a reputed mob figure who the authorities say ran a pornography business.
Aides to one of Ms. Ferraro’s rivals — City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman — in the Democratic race for Senate tipped off a reporter to seek out the report, which then was made available in a matter of hours by the agency that produced it.
Holtzman supporters were apparently seeking to draw attention to the report because they believe it contradicts an assertion by Ms. Ferraro that her husband had never met Mr. DiBernardo. On Thursday Ms. Ferraro repeated those assertions, saying at a news conference that “my husband does not know DiBernardo, never met DiBernardo.” She said through a spokesman yesterday that she stood by that statement. Slain in 1986
Mr. DiBernardo, who was slain in 1986 at the behest of the Gambino family boss John Gotti, headed the Star Distributing Company, which law-enforcement officials identified as a major pornography supplier operating out of a building co-owned by Mr. Zaccaro and managed by his real estate brokerage, P. Zaccaro Inc., in lower Manhattan.
Ms. Ferraro, an officer in the real-estate business, has said she and her husband were unaware of the tenant’s business until news reports brought it to light during her 1984 Vice-Presidential campaign. She promised then to evict the Star concern, but the company remained three more years despite what Ms. Ferraro said were efforts to oust it.
The investigator’s report was obtained by The New York Times yesterday after a spokesman for Ms. Holtzman, Andrea Bernstein, telephoned to suggest that a reporter call the organized-crime task force.”
There will be some who will slam Palin because of her comments. To them it’s an insult if a conservative woman says anything good about a liberal woman.
I actually met Geraldine at a reception for one of her daughters graduating from Brown. She was one of the few nationally recognized politicians I’ve ever chatted with in person. She was charming, gracious and put on a good show for all involved. Of course nothing political was ever brought up or mentioned, funny how in the 80’s when this occurred not everything was political, she was just a proud mom on a proud occasion.
I am truly sorry to hear this. I thought she was a class act.
A decent woman—betrayed by her priests and by her husband, the first heretics and the latter, not honest.
It’s called being gracious. You might want to look it up in your newbie handbook.
I think Sarah Palin’s remarks say it all. Despite having political differences, many of us feel pride in our nation for the progress we have made to extend equality and opportunity to all people, as our Founders envisioned. Ms. Feraro’s family may take comfort in knowing she earned a place in American history.
Wow! I met Jeffrey Dahmer in the army, does that mean I’m a cannibal?
I don't know, have you ever eaten a human?
Really do not get what is so classy about wanting to control the lives of others. Do not get what is so classy about stealing money from the productive and giving it to the non-productive. Do not get what is so classy about destroying our economy and way of life.
She responded something such as: Tom, I don't think I like you very much right now.
Story/gossip from 1985?? “Obtained” by NYT yesterday? Hmmm...
You kidding? She always demeaned the other side just like a typical Dem-Rat, this is just more feminist garbage to appease the Left, I'll pass........
So classy means believing Mondale would have been better than Reagan?
She didn't see anything wrong with murdering babies in the womb, so in my book you can strike the word "decent". So what's that leave?
I'll bet her views on abortion have already changed, but it won't do her any good at all now...
RIP, Geraldine.
I agree that Ferraro was corrupt, but it is a tough thing for a person in the public eye like Palin to spit on the grave of Geraldine. I am sure there are many who found her to be a fine person so Palin praising her was an expected courtesy. It showed class.
de mortuis nil nisi bonum
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