Congressional candidate Yuh-Line Niou, who needs to characterize Decrease Manhattan and Brownstone Brooklyn, says she has been impacted by reminiscence loss after being injured in a automobile crash.
Niou, 39, a Manhattan Assemblywoman who's now vying for the Democratic nomination in subsequent month’s crowded tenth Congressional District main, mentioned below oath in 2018 that an Uber accident two years earlier had left her with reminiscence points.
The admission got here in a authorized deposition for a Manhattan Supreme Court docket lawsuit Niou filed towards Uber, her driver and the motive force of the opposite automobile concerned within the 2016 crash.
The reminiscence points stacked as much as be “greater than only a coincidence,” Niou mentioned on the time.
She recounted a latest journey to Albany, saying, “I forgot my keys in my bag, within the mistaken bag, after which I went to the Vacation Inn Specific after my Amtrak journey, and I left my baggage within the trunk of the Uber, after which I went to my room and I forgot to take the important thing down.”
She went on to elaborate that “Generally I've to make a cellphone name or a few, you recognize, conferences are on the calendar and generally I simply can’t bear in mind like what I needs to be studying or what I needs to be doing. It’s simply — generally it’s loads.”
Niou settled the lawsuit in 2020 for between $50,000 and $75,000.
Niou is going through Metropolis Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon and US Rep. Mondaire Jones, who at present reps a Westchester-based district, amongst others candidates within the Aug. 23 main.
Maud Maron, who can be looking for the nomination, mentioned she had by no means heard Niou point out the reminiscence challenge and that she wanted to be clear.
“I believe you need to be clear about whether or not or not you possibly can proceed to serve or can function absolutely as earlier than as a result of having the ability to bear in mind what individuals inform you is an extremely essential a part of being an elected chief,” Maron mentioned.
Niou, who has the assist of the left-leaning Working Households Occasion, just lately drew warmth for backing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions motion towards Israel. Days later she posted a photograph of herself showing to take a chew out of a loaf of challah whereas visiting a Jewish household’s dwelling, main one neighborhood observer to notice “the Jewish neighborhood needs to know, are you with us or towards us.”
She has additionally incorrectly mentioned that Asian-American organizations obtained no funding from the state till she took workplace in 2017 and has claimed to have delivered an eye-popping quantity of pandemic help.
Max Burns, a spokesman for Niou, didn't deny pol’s reminiscence points, claiming she has “clearly responded on a couple of event that her occasional misplacing of automobile keys didn't affect her capability to do her job.”
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