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Although the major immigration would not come for thirty years, 1848 saw the first wave of Italians come to America. Among these was Giuseppe Garibaldi who would later be a leader in the movement to unify Italy, and who lived on Staten Island in New York harbor for a number of years. These people came fleeing political repression as many have come to our shores since that time, most recently from Hungary...
Lindsay was "cute" and he was "nice," yet no one would have liked to vote for him. It was hard to "Vote for New York" when everything seemed wrong, yet harder to vote for "that man from Staten Island who wants the war" or the village idiot with the Groucho Marx moustache...
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...
...doubly satisfying, since they were pleased to see Marchi pull such an obviously foolish blunder, and since secretly they may have agreed with Marchi's estimate. Marchi himself had to admit he had tarnished his image as "the Perry Como of politics." And then came M-Day with the Staten Islander revealing himself in no uncertain terms, accusing Lindsay of having stuck a dagger into the back of American servicemen. All in all, a line worthy of Strom Thurmond...
...John Murphy, Democratic Congressman from Staten Island...