Word: electioneered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS is an election year for New York City, and those words are the summons to the barricades, the social contract and tacit manifesto of the Democratic challenger for the mayoralty of the five boroughs of the fabled, troubled city. His name is Mario Angelo Procaccino, and he is a...
His gooey delivery and overly simple ideas sometimes obscure the fact, but Procaccino is on to something. When in 1965 he won election as city comptroller ? the city's second most powerful office ? it was fashionable for sassy reformers to ask: "What is a Mario Procaccino?" His answer...
(2 of 10) with a law-and-order veneer to beat four rivals in last June's Democratic primary. Now he is given a good chance to win the general election on Nov. 4.
So far has Lindsay fallen that he lost the Republican primary this year to a quiet, unassertive, almost unknown state senator, John Marchi; as a result, the mayor is running for re-election as an independent. Marchi's victory last June makes the current campaign a three-cornered race, though...
The election commission's decision was based on an opinion by Cronin, who presented the case against a referendum at the Superior Court hearing.