Runnin’: how a junior associate became a congressional candidate
By Pete Eikenberry © 2010
7/28/10
Just over 40 years ago on June 23, 1970, New York City primary election day, someone drove Sue and I around to the various polling places of the U.S. 14th Congressional District where we dropped off pastries to the poll workers as was the custom for candidates in those days. I felt pretty good about the campaign we had run in the Democratic primary against 28-year incumbent U.S. Congressman John Rooney until I saw long lines of voters outside the polling places in Greenpoint.
In 1970, the district stretched out 12 miles along the Brooklyn waterfront (facing Manhattan) from the