PERISCOPE: Ethnic Vote Now A Major Focus

Irish Voice, October, 2000 by O'Dowd, Niall

O'Dowd, Niall Irish Voice 10-31-2000 PERISCOPE: Ethnic Vote Now A Major Focus By Niall O'Dowd ONE of the more interesting articles on the New York Senate election in the past week was published in Newsday. It described how Congressman Rick Lazio, the Republican candidate, was reinventing himself as Enrico Lazio (his birth name) upstate in an attempt to woo ethnic voters. Lazio was also regaling audiences in the Buffalo area with tales of how he relished the smell of his grandmother's traditional Italian dishes when he was young, and how much her memories of the old country meant to him. There have also been "Lasagna with Lazio" nights and "Rigatoni with Rick" evenings in an attempt by the Long Island congressman to cash in on the all-important ethnic vote in...

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