Saturday, March 26, 2011

Geraldine Ferraro died today, Saturday, March 26


It’s with sadness that I post the announcement of Geraldine Ferraro’s death today. I never met her personally, but during her candidacy as Walter Mondale’s running mate in 1984, I was painfully aware of the misogynist and anti-Italian-American attacks she and her family endured from her opponents and our still mostly ignorant, regrettably uninformed, and biased media.

The Roll Call’s Christine Bellantoni reports:

The family said in a statement that she {Ferraro} died at Massachusetts General Hospital as a result of complications from a blood cancer that she had fought for 12 years.

"Geraldine Anne Ferraro Zaccaro was widely known as a leader, a fighter for justice, and a tireless advocate for those without a voice. To us, she was a wife, mother, grandmother and aunt, a woman devoted to and deeply loved by her family," her family said in a statement. "Her courage and generosity of spirit throughout her life waging battles big and small, public and personal, will never be forgotten and will be sorely missed."

The family will announce details about a funeral service and wake.




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