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  Up Bob, Down Bobby
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Last Editednystate63  Jul 22, 2007 10:40pm
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MediaWeekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine
News DateSaturday, February 13, 1965 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionFor four long weeks, Democrats in the New York state senate and assembly had been deadlocked in a ludicrous leadership fight between forces backed by New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner and a coalition allied with Senator Bobby Kennedy.

Wagner simply wanted Senator Joseph Zaretzki and Assemblyman Anthony Travia, both of whom had served as legislative leaders when the Democrats were in the minority, to move up in well-organized succession to the majority-leadership posts. The Kennedy coalition wanted to move its own men in.
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