Floridians remember first female VP candidate Geraldine Ferraro

 

Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president on a major party's ticket, has died at age 75.
A family friend said Ferraro, who was diagnosed with blood cancer in 1998, died Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The Democrat was Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984.
Mondale and Ferraro lost to Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
In 1978, she was elected as a U.S. Representative for the 9th Congressional District of New York. Voters re-elected her in 1980 and 1982.
She was born in 1935 in New York to a restaurant owning family.  She earned her law degree from Fordham University Law School in 1960.
She became an assistant district attorney in Queens, NY.
Between 1996 and 1998 she was a host on CNN.
In 1992 and 1998, she ran for for the U.S. Senate, but lost in the Democratic primaries.
During the 2008 presidential elections, Ferraro came under fire for suggesting President Barack Obama's success is because of his race.
Ferraro stood by her words, but quit her finance post with the Clinton camp.
She was married to John Zaccaro and had three children.
Floridians in the political world are remembering Ferraro.  Former Congressman Lou Frey called Ferraro one of the real trailblazers for women in Congress.

"She was one of the real trailblazers for women in Congress.  She deserves a lot of respect for what she did in Congress and the courage she had.  She was a tough fighter and was liked and respected by people on both sides of the aisle."