Italian men. (Geraldine Ferraro quip about Italian men)

From: National Review | Date: November 2, 1984 | Copyright information

WHEN GERALDINE FERRARO made her ill-starred quip about "Italian men" early in the campaign, she caught a lot of flak from Italian-American organizations. We're starting to think she had some excuse: She and her husband appear to be surrounded by a somewhat unrepresentative sampling of male Italian-Americans.

-- Michael LaRosa, a convicted racketeer, was a longtime business associate of the P. Zaccaro real-estate company. He donated money to two of Mrs. Ferraro's campaigns.

-- Aniello Dellacroce was a top figure in the Gambino crime family. He lived in a building that he ...

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