Word: procaccinos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those voting against the Mayor will vote for either Republican-Conservative John Marchi, a Staten Island State Senator, or Democrat Mario Procaccino, the city's Comptroller. Lindsay, who lost the Republican primary to Marchi in June, is running on both Liberal and Independent tickets...
...final tally of the New York Daily News straw poll- never wrong in a mayoral election-indicates that the anti-Lindsay vote will go 27 per cent for Procaccino and 23 per cent for Marchi, with Lindsay getting a 48 per cent plurality...
...Marchi were to do now what Vito Batista did for him at primary's end-mainly stand aside in the interests of unseating Lindsay-the Mayor would again become the underdog against Procaccino...
...many American cities, however, Lindsay would have to face a run-off. New York, which has retained partisan municipal elections in the face of a trend away from them, requires only a plurality at all stages of the event. The Lindsay camp has made much of the fact that Procaccino could not have won a run-off within his own Democratic Party-former Mayor Robert Wagner would have been a strong favorite in such a contest...
More immediately important, cities must begin to reclaim some of the ground and air space now dominated by the automobile. Theodore Kheel, with Mayor Lindsay's backing, has proposed lifting bridge and tunnel tolls to finance a continued 20-cent subway fare. Mario Procaccino has opposed the Kheel plan, asserting that drivers should not be asked to subsidize mass transit more than they are already doing. With this argument, Procaccino completely fails to realize that mass transit riders already pay a tremendous, almost incalculable subsidy to drivers: they travel in a crowded, dirty, sightless underground, while conceding the open...