Our Long, National Geraldine Ferraro Nightmare Is Over

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We’ve covered this pretty extensively, so we might as well give you denouement. Geraldine Ferraro just wrote a letter to Hillary Clinton resigning from her campaign. “I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign,” Ferraro says to Clinton. “The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won’t let that happen.”