Christine Quinn Keeping Everyone Safe
This is a posting from Beth Defalco at the NYPost. Not only NYC is going to be safer with Chris at the helms but people that go to her campaign events are also safer with her.
Christine Quinn helps a teenage girl into City Hall after the young woman passed out during the mayoral candidate's speech on women’s rights, family and employment issues.
It was Christine Quinn to the rescue again today as a teenage girl passed out at a campaign event for the mayoral candidate this afternoon, the second such incident on the council speaker’s trail in just over a month.
The Democratic hopeful was speaking about women’s rights, family and employment issues on the steps of City Hall, when a 14-year-old family friend of Quinn’s wife Kim Catullo was suddenly overcome by the heat.
The girl was standing behind Quinn and her eyes rolled to the back of her head and her knees buckled before she crumpled to the ground.
The 81-degree day felt much hotter with the humidity and Quinn’s supporters standing so close together behind their candidate.
Quinn helped the girl to her feet and led her up the City Hall steps. Once inside, Quinn used wet paper towels to cool the girl down, before grabbing an ice pack to apply to the young supporter’s head.
Paramedics examined the young woman before she went home with her parents.
During a Quinn event on July 16, an intern of supporter Councilwoman Diana Reyna succumbed to the mid-90s heat and passed out in Brooklyn.
In that incident, Quinn personally called NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and FDNY Commissioner Salvatore Cassano because an ambulance didn’t arrive immediately after 911 was first reached.
It finally took calls to the Hatzolah volunteer ambulance service for the intern to get medical attention, 31 minutes after the first 911 notification.
Quinn’s event this afternoon was intended to highlight the 19th Amendment -- which became law on Aug. 26, 1920 and guaranteed the right to vote for American women.
US Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Upper East Side) and feminist icon Gloria Steinem were also present at the event.
Additional reporting by David K. Li
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