Word: zaccaro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Bureau Chief John Stacks first covered Geraldine Ferraro last spring, when she was still a Queens Congresswoman. For this issue, he and Correspondent David Beckwith talked for an hour with the vice-presidential candidate and her husband John Zaccaro. Recalls Stacks of the reunion: "Less than four months ago, a visit to Geraldine Ferraro's home in Queens was like a visit to any upper-middle-class dwelling. The dog roamed around the house. Ferraro was busy but not harassed. Her husband was gracious and relaxed." This week Stacks found Secret Service agents prowling the grounds...
Ferraro certainly showed that she has an astonishing knack for handling journalistic inquisitors. The reporters in New York were as jumpy and eager as hounds. For 18 hours they had been able to examine the financial records of Ferraro and her husband John Zaccaro, a real estate executive. The candidate was open to a slew of questions about her compliance with congressional finance rules. In 1978, during her first run for Congress, Ferraro's husband and children had loaned her $134,000; federal election law permits only $1,000 from each family member...
Adding to Ferraro's disarray was the reappearance of another old controversy: the illegal funding of her first congressional election campaign in 1978. Though campaign loans are limited to $1,000 per individual, Ferraro's election committee was bankrolled by loans totaling $134,000 from Zaccaro and their three children...
...fined the Ferraro campaign $750 for the violation, after accepting the sworn statements of Zaccaro, who served as campaign manager, and the committee treasurer that they had been assured that the loans were proper by David Stein, a former FEC attorney. Last week Stein issued a statement claiming that he informally advised the Ferraro campaign that "I did not believe that it would be permissible" to accept large family loans. Zaccaro and the campaign treasurer continued to stick to their original account...
...John Zaccaro's vice-presidential candidacy has created a problem for the status-conscious editors of the New York Times: how to refer to a woman who has retained her surname and is known to the whole world as Geraldine Ferraro. To the Times, which attaches the honorifics Mr., Mrs. and Miss to names, the problem could be solved by referring to her as Miss Ferraro. But the candidate, who is the mother of three children, does not feel happy with this appellation and has asked to be called Ms. or Mrs. Ferraro. Because the Times does not permit...