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Article: STATE ASSEMBLYMAN DEFEATS BIAGGI IN BRONX PRIMARY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 16, 1988
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NEW YORK - Mario Biaggi, the Bronx congressman who gave up his
seat after his racketeering conviction, was handily defeated
yesterday by a state assemblyman in one of three primary races
overshadowed by political corruption charges.
Biaggi, implicated in the far-reaching Wedtech scandal,
resigned from Congress too late to have his name removed from the
ballot in a three-way race with state Assemblyman Eliot Engel and
former Assemblyman Vincent Marchiselli.
With 473 of 494 precincts reporting, Engel had 12,731 votes,
or 50 percent; Marchiselli had 6,407 votes, or 25 percent; and
Biaggi had 6,370 votes, or 25 percent.
The name of another Bronx congressman, Robert Garcia, came up
in ...