Word: badillo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK--Frankie "the Rabbit" Torres was screaming mad last Tuesday night following Herman Badillo's 3-2 loss to Abraham Became in New York City's run-off mayoral primary...
Torres, who earned his nickname in the early 1960s for his speed in scurrying around East Harlem's housing projects to gather nominating petitions, complained bitterly about Badillo's organization in El Barrio...
...other two candidates, Herman Badillo and Al Blumenthal, will probably split the diminishing liberal Jewish vote. Blumenthal has the support of most liberal reform Democrats in Manhattan, but not much else. He has very poor name recognition and no money, so that he can't go on television. Badillo did well with liberal Jews four years ago, but this time lost the support of the reform umbrella group, the New Democratic Coalition. His only hope now is that The New York Times endorsement he recently received will give him a big boost with the liberals...
However, it seems unlikely that Blumenthal or Badillo can muster enough votes to get into a runoff primary. The big question is whether Biaggi has kept himself clean enough to remain the shabbas goy of the Jewish Grandmothers on the Grand Concourse...
...field of candidates in the Democratic primary on June 5 has dwindled to four -- Comptroller Abraham Beame, Rep. Herman Badillo, Albert Blumenthal, a state assemblyman from Manhattan's West Side, and Biaggi. Badillo and Blumenthal are competing for the liberal and minority vote, though it is generally conceded that Blumenthal's campaign gained some much-needed momentum from his recent endorsement by the Liberal Party...