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Geraldine Ferraro Dies at 75
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26 Mar 2011, 20:59
Ashalicious
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Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice presidential candidate for a major party and former Democratic congresswoman, died Saturday at the age of 75, according to a statement from her family.

Ferraro died Saturday morning at Massachusetts General Hospital. The cause of death was complications from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that she had battled for 12 years. She went public with her diagnosis in 2001.

Her family said, "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 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."

In July 1984, former Vice President Walter Mondale tapped Ferraro to be his running mate securing her place in history as the first woman to run on a major party presidential ticket. She was also the first Italian-American to run for vice president from one of the two major political parties.

In her acceptance speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, Ferraro said, "The daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love."

More info, and the video of her 1984 acceptance speech, at: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/03/geraldine-ferraro.html
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26 Mar 2011, 22:40
Music God CJ Plain
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They then proceeded to get CRUSHED in the election.
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27 Mar 2011, 00:10
Ashalicious
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Yeah I know, they did get crushed. But hey, she was the first woman to run for vice president and that's something. Long before Palin came around acting like she was.
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