Aug 19, 2026 · 46 min · 18 segments
1975 - 1979 // Outfit operations expand as Judy runs for office and goes back to school. A series of disturbing events offers Judy a glimpse into the menace that awaits her in the battle to save…
Christopher KostrzakHostZoning is a big issue.
They were cramming as many apartments as they could on all of these parcels that were now available.
It was an apartment bull, and Bill Smith wasn't looking at the future.
He was selling out to get his money run.
And now all of a sudden he's upsetting people like my parents who had voted for him.
And here comes Judy Petrucci.
And Judy is there for my folks.
You could feel
this change coming.
And while battling the mob makes for fiery conversations at the coffee clutch, Judy's pitch to strangers is more practical.
On a gray Saturday morning in March, Judy parks the Pinto near Village Hall and hits the pavement, young daughter Gina in tow.
I would have been in grade school, and the first election I thought was really cool because we had red and white buttons, and I could give out buttons that said, elect Petrucci trustee.
Like any door-to-door campaign, the reception Judy and Gina get at the door is wholly dependent on the personalities of those who live behind it, whether warm, hostile, or just disinterested.
The one constant is the fact that a woman running for office in this blue-collar village is a surprise, welcome or not.
My parents, they didn't grow up with women running things.
We still need a guy.
Although this lady's over here and what she's saying and what she might be doing is good, eh, she can't run things.
As they roll east on 44th Street, Judy points out a 2,000 plus square foot, three bed, 3.5 bath brick mid-century with a sunroom on the back.
Having already overheard conversations of her mother discussing a future mayoral run with her father Fred, Gina wonders whether one day she and her parents will have to move into Smith's house, like Amy Carter went to live in the White House when her father was elected president.
Zoning is a big issue.
They were cramming as many apartments as they could on all of these parcels that were now available.
It was an apartment bull, and Bill Smith wasn't looking at the future.
He was selling out to get his money run.
And now all of a sudden he's upsetting people like my parents who had voted for him.
And here comes Judy Petrucci.
And Judy is there for my folks.
You could feel
this change coming.
And while battling the mob makes for fiery conversations at the coffee clutch, Judy's pitch to strangers is more practical.
On a gray Saturday morning in March, Judy parks the Pinto near Village Hall and hits the pavement, young daughter Gina in tow.
I would have been in grade school, and the first election I thought was really cool because we had red and white buttons, and I could give out buttons that said, elect Petrucci trustee.
Like any door-to-door campaign, the reception Judy and Gina get at the door is wholly dependent on the personalities of those who live behind it, whether warm, hostile, or just disinterested.
The one constant is the fact that a woman running for office in this blue-collar village is a surprise, welcome or not.
My parents, they didn't grow up with women running things.
We still need a guy.
Although this lady's over here and what she's saying and what she might be doing is good, eh, she can't run things.
As they roll east on 44th Street, Judy points out a 2,000 plus square foot, three bed, 3.5 bath brick mid-century with a sunroom on the back.
Having already overheard conversations of her mother discussing a future mayoral run with her father Fred, Gina wonders whether one day she and her parents will have to move into Smith's house, like Amy Carter went to live in the White House when her father was elected president.
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