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Ralph: I found her TV ad very tasteful indeed, Wanda. Great photography and a real slice of life as it is undoubtedly lived in the Zaccaro household, at least when all those accountants aren't cluttering up the place. Here we are, sharing a typical moment of televised intimacy between a famous mother, her two daughters and a Pepsi. Like most Americans, I found myself riveted to the tube as she told the daughters, "You can be anything you want to be" and that being a mother was one of the choices she was most proud of. You've just...
...finally, of course, they vote you in. Last week Geraldine Ferraro, 49, seemed well on her way to fulfilling the dream. At a $100-a-head benefit roast for the Women's Action Alliance in Manhattan, she took a round of ribbing from the likes of her daughter Laura Zaccaro, Feminist Gloria Steinem, New York City Council President Carol Bellamy and Comedian Marilyn Michaels. Then Ferraro took a turn at ribbing herself. "Governor Cuomo said the focus of the campaign should be the family. But I didn't know it was my family!" she joshed, referring to her husband John...
Fill the president with mercy for those less fortunate--perhaps a pardon for John Zaccaro, and the citizens of Minnesota and the District of Columbia...
...Democratic Convention in San Francisco last summer, John Zaccaro stood proudly beside his wife Geraldine Ferraro, first woman ever nominated by a major party to run for U.S. Vice President. Privately, too, he was doing well; the couple had a net worth of about $4 million, stemming largely from his New York real estate business. But in the glare of the Ferraro campaign, his financial dealings came under harsh scrutiny. Last week Zaccaro was arrested and ushered into Manhattan Criminal Court, where he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. An indictment accused Zaccaro of scheming to defraud during a deal...
Ferraro got off even more lightly. "I consider myself completely vindicated," she said following the announcement of the Ethics Committee's findings. The six Democrats and six Republicans ruled that Ferraro should not have claimed exemption from reporting the business dealings of her husband, Real Estate Developer John Zaccaro, in her congressional financial disclosures. Ferraro would qualify only if she had no knowledge of her husband's finances, had no role in their development and had not benefited from them. This, said the committee, was not the case. But the 47-page report concluded that she acted without...