Thirty-six years before Kamala Harris came under fire as Biden's running mate, Ferraro faced tough questions about her family's finances and her husband's rumored business ties to organized crime
I wasn’t worried about getting rattled. As a trial lawyer I’d handled myself in adverse situations before. I wasn’t worried about what I was going to say, either. I was going to go out there and tell the people honestly and directly what had happened and what I knew about it. What I was worried about was the press. The outcome would all depend on their response.
Ferraro faced questions over unpaid taxes and accusations that she hadn’t properly reported certain transactions connected to her husband’s company on financial disclosure forms. As the questions continued, Ferraro grew more confident, showing command not just over complicated financial matters, but also in controlling the room. She answered a reporter’s hostile question with this answer: “Now you know better than that.”“At one point in the news conference,” The Post reported, “reporters booed one colleague and hooted down another whose questions struck his colleagues as obstreperous.”“The questions went on until they became repetitious,” Ferraro wrote.
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