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Abbreviation | FUS |
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Country | United States |
Established | 1933-00-00 |
Disbanded | 0000-00-00 |
Contributor | nystate63 |
Last Edited | nystate63 - May 30, 2005 10:03pm |
Description | "The City Fusion Party arose in 1933 in response to the scandals in city government revealed by the Seabury hearings. Fiorello La Guardia, nominated by the Republicans and the City Fusionists, polled nearly half his votes on the new party?s ticket. However, the Fusionists had no interest in patronage?the loaves and fishes by which one builds a permanent mass movement. Enthusiasm flags in the absence of a paycheck. By the 1950s, the party had nearly faded away. Its tattered remains?largely the right to use a four-leaf clover as a ballot emblem?became the property of Counselor Fusco, a Republican turned Democrat turned Perotista. No election since the late 1960s has been complete without Fusco or his friends somewhere on the ballot. Fusco last ran for citywide office in 1997, when he polled fewer than 1000 votes running for mayor as a Fusionist. This year, he ran for comptroller on the Fusion ticket with Bernie Goetz and polled 6989 votes. From the Little Flower to the Subway Gunman?what a fall was there, my countrymen. As far as ideas are concerned, Fusco?s remain a mystery: he, too, published no platform in the city?s Voter Guide."
-from nypress.com
Mayor John Mitchel's 1917 ticket was also named "City Fusion". |
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