Word: holtzman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Holtzman, a former assistant to Mayor John V. Lindsay and current Democratic State Committeewoman, is not entering the primary as an electoral exercise...
...going to win," she said. "I wouldn't ask people to put their time and energy on this if I didn't think I was going to win." Holtzman is Celler's sole opponent, and winning the Democratic primary virtually guarantees election in November from the heavily Democratic Tenth District...
...Holtzman has been endorsed by her own assemblyman. Melvin Miller (44th A.D.), and by Antonio G. Olivieri '63 (66th A.D.) in Manhattan. She said she expects to have strong support from Democratic reform clubs, young people, and women...
Although she was unwilling to classify herself in the same league with Reps. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) and Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.)--both of whom are very outspoken and somewhat flamboyant women--Holtzman did say she is as liberal as anyone in the House on peace and military appropriations, housing and education...
...Holtzman was born in Brooklyn and attended Abraham Lincoln High School before entering Radcliffe. She graduated magna cum laude in American History and went on to receive a L.L.B. from the Law School...