 On October 18 the New York Post accurately reported that her father had been arrested for possession of numbers slips in Newburgh shortly before his death , and inaccurately speculated that something mysterious had been covered up about that death . Ferraro 's mother had never told her about his arrest ; she had been also arrested as an accomplice but released after her husband 's death . The printing of the story led Ferraro to state that Post publisher Rupert Murdoch " does not have the worth to wipe the dirt under [ my mother 's ] shoes . " Throughout , Ferraro kept campaigning , taking on the traditional running mate role of attacking the opposition vigorously . By the end , she had traveled more than Mondale and more than Reagan and Bush combined . 
