He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. Clinton went on to lose the presidential nomination to Obama.įerraro had told a California newspaper that if Obama, "was a white man, he would not be in this position. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in 2008, Ferraro stepped down as a member of the finance committee for the presidential campaign of then Sen. Ferraro, pleaded guilty today to a misdemeanor charge of fraud in a 15.5-million real estate deal. That would be her last campaign.Īfter making racially charged comments about then Sen. NEW YORK John Zaccaro, the husband of former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine A. In 1998, she ran and lost a bid for the Senate - her second failed attempt in six years to serve in the Senate. The New York Democrat served three terms in the House of Representatives. Only Mondale's home state of Minnesota went to the Democrats that year. Reagan-Bush crushed the Mondale-Ferraro ticket in the 1984 election, taking nearly 59 percent of the vote. Ferraro, the savvy New York Democrat who was embraced as a symbol of women’s equality in 1984 when she became the first woman nominated for vice president by a major party, died. Ferraro was born on 26 August 1935 in Newburgh, New York, USA. Ferrarothe first female VP nominee of a major partygave Mondale an initial boost, but the pair crashed to defeat after a bruising campaign with just 13 electoral votes in November. The 1984 presidential campaign against popular incumbent President Ronald Reagan showed that Ferraro could be comfortable in the men's world of national politics - at the time there were few women in Congress.īut questions about the financial dealings of Ferraro's husband, real-estate developer John Zaccaro, dogged her throughout the campaign and Mondale was seen by many as uncharismatic. She earned a reputation for speaking her mind on the issues of the day, sometimes generating controversy for her outspoken opinions. The cause of death was complications from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that she had battled for 12 years, according to a statement from her family.įerraro, the first woman and the first Italian-American to run on a major party national ticket, was Walter Mondale's vice presidential running mate in 1984 on the Democratic Party ticket. March 27, 2011— - Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket, died on Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital, a spokesman for her family said. As the oldest sibling, Zaccaro went on to make documentaries about her mother, including Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way, as well a film about Edie Windsors historic and landmark Supreme Court.
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