Liz Holtzman for US Senate from New York 1980 Campaign Button RARE Vintage

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Liz Holtzman for US Senate from New York 1980 Campaign Button RARE Vintage.
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Elizabeth Holyzman is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the US Congress.  A Democrat who represented the NY 16th Congressional district for four terms.  She was the first woman to hold the office of NYC Comptroller, and the first woman to serve as District Attorney of Kings County.
Holtzman was the Democratic candidate for the IS Senate in 1980. In her party's primary she defeated former Miss America Beds Myerson, former New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay, and Queens D.A. John J. Santucci.  Myerson was the initial favorite, with endorsements from Mayor of New York
Ed Koch, Governor High Carey and Senator Daniel Patrick Moyniham.
In the general election, Holtzman faced Republican nominee Alfonse D'Amato and incumbent Senator Jacob Javits. After losing to D'Amato in the Republican primary, Javits remained on the general-election ballot on the Liberal Party ticket. He retained his union endorsements and drew liberal and Jewish  voters away from Holtzman. A theme of D'Amato's campaign was that Holtzman had never voted for a Department of Defense appropriation bill in Congress.
D'Amato won the election by a margin of 1%, or 81,000 votes, over Holtzman.