In 1961 , Wagner won re-election by running a reformist campaign that denounced his former patron , DeSapio , as an undemocratic practitioner of Tammany machine politics .
Democrats who had once praised DeSapio now found it expedient to excoriate him .
In 1961 , Wagner won re-election by running a reformist campaign that denounced DeSapio 's former patron DeSapio DeSapio , as an undemocratic practitioner of Tammany machine politics .
Democrats who had once praised DeSapio now found it expedient to excoriate him .