https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/25/nyregion/man-in-the-news-persistence-pays-off-jerrold-lewis-nadler.html

But the West Side and its loyal Democratic operatives know the 45-year-old Mr. Nadler. That clearly showed in his easy victory over a crowded field in the Democratic County Committee's convention to nominate a successor to Representative Ted Weiss, who died last week on the eve of his victory in the Democratic primary for a ninth term.

"Jerry is a terrible nudnik," said the Assembly Speaker, Saul Weprin, using the Yiddish term for an indefatigable pest or nag. "But in a good sense. When he has something on his mind that he wants to get done, he'll never leave you alone. I'm sure that from the unfortunate moment that Ted Weiss left us, he was lobbying the county committee."

Yesterday, as he scurried to television appearances and to meetings with Gov. Bill Clinton and Jewish leaders, and tried to return more than three dozen phone calls of congratulations Mr. Nadler said he looked forward to continuing the district's liberal traditions in Washington.

Assemblyman Richard N. Gottfried of the West Side, a schoolmate who wrote literature for Mr. Nadler's campaign for Stuyvesant student government president and lost out to him for the Congressional nomination this week after James R. McManus, a fourth-generation scion of Tammany Hall, switched his political club's votes to Mr. Nadler at the last minute.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/nyregion/james-r-mcmanus-dead.html

Mr. McManus never wed. His sister Maureen McManus was married to Michael J. Spillane, a bookmaker, loan shark and, by all accounts, gentleman gangster who was known as Mickey.

“We didn’t interfere with the mob on the docks, and they didn’t interfere with our politics,” Mr. McManus explained in 1992.

In 1983, Mr. McManus’s unlikely running mate for the district leadership was Clare M. Pierson, a 27-year-old granddaughter of the late Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, a Republican.

Several years earlier, Ms. Pierson had bought a brownstone next to the four-story building occupied by the McManus family’s funeral parlor, which also happened to have been listed by nine relatives and friends of Mr. McManus on his nominating petitions as their home address. (A court referee disallowed their signatures.)

“In the old days, we used to vote the graveyards,” Lawrence Mandelker, Mr. McManus’s election lawyer, observed at the time. “Jim is a reformer. He votes the funeral parlor.”

He added: “I’m still collecting on favors that were done 20 years ago by my father and 50 years ago by my great-uncles. That’s what organization politics is all about.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-nadler-have-warred-for-years-but-the-stakes-have-never-been-higher

Long before there was Crooked Hillary and Lyin’ Ted, there was Fat Jerry.

That 1995 bit of name-calling by Donald Trump was aimed at Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Democrat from New York who now serves as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

Nadler met with Trump as the state assemblyman who then represented the area.

But the present Nadler is a person transformed since he underwent stomach-reduction surgery in 2001 and shed more than 100 pounds. He had been noshing himself toward a peak weight of 328 pounds back when he first roused Trump’s ire.

Their original object of contention was Television City, a metropolis within a metropolis that Trump proposed on a 52-acre tract he acquired on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1980s. The initial plan was for eight towers and 5,700 apartments, as well as television and movie studios.

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=16643

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 Congressman Nadler

Two-and-a-half years ago he played a key role in securing President Clinton’s pardons of two homegrown terrorists – Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans, who were members of the Weather Underground, a Marxist-Leninist cult founded in 1969. The violent Weathermen formally declared war on “Amerikkka” and dedicated themselves to fomenting social chaos and racial warfare by any means necessary.