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...Representative Nydia Velazquez, 43, knows how easy it is for medical secrets to find their way out of a doctor's files. When Velazquez was running for Congress in 1992 to represent New York City's 12th Congressional District, someone got hold of hospital records detailing her 1991 suicide attempt and forwarded them by anonymous fax to the press. The New York Post broke the story, and Velazquez was forced to acknowledge publicly something even her family did not know: she had tried to kill herself with sleeping pills and vodka. Despite the painful publicity, she won the election...
Dozens of new women are coming to the House, perhaps doubling the current number of 28. The fresh faces include Eva Clayton, the first black Congresswoman from North Carolina, and New York's Nydia Velazquez, the first Puerto Rican female in Congress...
...YORK / Nydia Velazquez
Circumstances varied. Nine-term Democratic Representative Stephen Solarz of New York, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, lost to Nydia Velazquez, former secretary of the Department of Puerto Rican Community Affairs in the U.S. Solarz was partly the victim of a post-Census reapportionment that intentionally redrew his district to encourage Latino representation, which it did. But Solarz was surely hurt by his 743 overdrafts at the House bank. In Massachusetts, 127 bad checks helped do in Democrat Chester Atkins, who lost to a former county prosecutor...
...Cornelius Hackl who is getting away from it all for the first time in his life at the age of 33, is corking. June Walker, staunch old trooper, turns in an adequate performance and John Call, Joseph Sweeney, Bartlett Robinson (who looks startlingly like a Bennington drama boy), and Nydia Westman are all excellent in minor roles...