Word: marchi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conservative vote was split between Republican State Senator John J. Marchi, and Democratic Mario Biaggi who ran on the Conservative slate. Assemblyman Albert H. Blumenthal ran fourth on the Liberal ticket...
...Wagner, who publicly expressed guarded interest in the proposal. Meanwhile, Rose fulfilled his part of the bargain by nominating Wagner on the Liberal line. Rockefeller proceeded to bludgeon the city's five Republican county leaders into acceptance of the deal. But Rockefeller could not dissuade State Senator John Marchi from a second assault on the mayoralty (it was Marchi who defeated Lindsay in the 1969 Republican mayoral primary and then went on to lose the election as he split the right-of-center vote with the Democratic nominee, Comptroller Mario Procaccino...
...Wagner's turn to throw pie in the face of Rockefeller. After calling the GOP county leaders "peanut politicians," Wagner turned down the idea of a primary fight with Marchi, a fight he would surely have lost. A few days later, Wagner also rejected the Liberal Party's offer, claiming that he did not possess the consuming desire for the mayoralty that he felt was necessary...
...than Wagner. They are: 1) Lindsay, who could always change his mind and run again, 2) Democratic Congressman Mario Biaggi, a conservative and much decorated former policeman, who in his Bronx office dispenses help to complaining constituents in the style of the Godfather, and 3) Republican State Senator John Marchi of Staten Island, an able conservative who is indisputably his own man. An overriding consideration: Rocky wants some control over city hall...
...mayor. As Wagner tells it: "He said he thought it would be a great thing if I ran. And he added: 'Gee, we fought, but at least you kept your word.' " Liberal Rose, who figured that Wagner was the man most likely to stop Biaggi or Marchi from becoming mayor, corralled his caucus and rammed through an endorsement of Wagner. Rocky's road was rougher. He had to win over five New York City G.O.P. county leaders and their executive committees. Bronx Leader John Calandra had already denounced Wagner as "a moron." The other leaders more...