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New York City On a Monday morning in May, a little more than six weeks before New Yorkers were scheduled to vote in their midterm primaries, a political earthquake tore through the state's Democratic House delegation.
Already on edge as they awaited a new congressional map ordered up by the state's high court after it tossed a heavily gerrymandered version concocted by Democratic lawmakers in Albany, the submission by a"special master" based in Pittsburgh drew old allies into contentious primary fights over suddenly overlapping turf -- and rising stars, some already in Congress, were stuck with unenviable choices over where to stake their futures.
She once was the youngest woman elected to Congress. She's trying again at 80 02:49She has been endorsed by US Rep. Nydia Velazquez, the borough presidents of Manhattan and Brooklyn, numerous labor unions and council colleagues. At a news conference on Friday, she received a stamp of approval, if not an outright endorsement, from a primary opponent, former US Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, 81, who said Rivera"represents the future of the Democratic Party in this city.