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Sitting alone with a single friend, a couple of dozen rows behind the governor was Congressman Mario Biaggi who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City in 1973. His raincoat was folded neatly over his knees. "So many happy days for me here," he said looking lonely. "So many great memories and smiles. It's a wonderful park...
...York delegation took the prize for the greatest number of nationally known politicians. Crammed into the aisles were Reps. Bella Abzug, Elizabeth Holtzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Herman Badillo; ex-governor Averell Harriman; Mayor Abraham Beame; former Rep. Mario Biaggi; City Councilman Meade Esposito; writer Michael Harrington; and AFL-CIO leader Albert Shanker...
Beame's next choice to be New York's first black deputy mayor was Joseph L. Galiber, a state senator and law partner of Mario Biaggi. Galiber made it as far as the swearing-in ceremony. As Galiber's anxious friends and family milled around, Beame dramatically revealed that his appointment was under reconsideration because he'd apparently accepted illegal corporate contributions during his unsuccessful campaign to be the Democratic nominee for controller. Galiber said he'd applied the money to worthwhile community projects, but Beame's fuller-scale investigation turned up some other stuff which wasn't disclosed...
...John Marchi dropped his scholarly stance to denounce the courts for letting off violent criminals, but Beame could hardly be accused of being soft on crime. Al Blumenthal, the Liberal Party candidate, could not make much headway in a year when his supporters were tired and divided; Conservative Mario Biaggi, one of the most decorated cops in city history, was destined to finish last after it was revealed that he had lied about his testimony to a grand jury investigating immigration bills he had sponsored in the House of Representatives...
...election with a resounding 57 per cent of the vote in a field of four, and carried every borough. Finishing behind him, nearly tied in the balloting, were John Marchi and Albert Blumenthal. Marchi is a Republican, Blumenthal a Democrat running on the Liberal party line, and Mario Biaggi, a scandal-ridden Democrat running with the endorsement of the Conservative Party finished last. Except for three liberal Assembly Districts in Manhattan that went for Blumenthal, Beame carried every A.D. in New York...