Nydia Velazquez represents the 12th congressional district which includes parts of Park Slope. She’s been doing it for twenty years and this year she is being opposed by three Democratic candidates in the primary on June 26th, including George Martinez, the Occupy Wall Street candidate, about whom the Village Voice currently has a cover story, Dan O’Connor and City Council Member Erik Martin Dilan.

This morning President Obama endorsed Nydia. Here’s what he had to say

“For the past two decades, Rep. Nydia Velázquez has been a constant advocate for middle-class families, helping to create an economy built to last where everyone has an opportunity to achieve the American Dream,” said President Obama.

“Rep. Velázquez has worked tirelessly to create good middle-class jobs through community projects, provide affordable housing so folks have a decent place to lay their head at night, and invest in education so that the children in her district receive the quality education they deserve. The people of NY’s 7th Congressional need to re-elect Rep. Velázquez so that she can keep fighting for them in Congress.”

Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez is currently serving her tenth term as Representative for New York’s 12th Congressional District, now known as the 7th CD. In the 112th Congress, she is the Ranking Member of the House Small Business Committee and a senior member of the Financial Services Committee. In 1992, she was the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

As a fighter for equal rights of the underrepresented and a proponent of economic opportunity for the working class and poor, Congresswoman Velázquez combines sensibility and compassion, as she works to encourage economic development, protect community health and the environment, combat crime and worker abuses, and secure access to affordable housing, quality education and health care for all New York City families.
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While Rep. Velázquez has a plan to move this country forward in a way that helps hardworking middle-class families and those working to get into the middle-class, Republicans want to return to the same policies that benefitted a few but crashed our economy and punished the middle-class. The people of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens and people across the country deserve better. I need you to vote for Nydia Velázquez, in the June 26th primary and again in November,” said President Obama.

“For the past two decades, Rep. Nydia Velázquez has been a constant advocate for middle-class families, helping to create an economy built to last where everyone has an opportunity to achieve the American Dream,” said President Obama. “Rep. Velázquez has worked tirelessly to create good middle-class jobs through community projects, provide affordable housing so folks have a decent place to lay their head at night, and invest in education so that the children in her district receive the quality education they deserve. The people of NY’s 7th Congressional need to re-elect Rep. Velázquez so that she can keep fighting for them in Congress.”

Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez is currently serving her tenth term as Representative for New York’s 12th Congressional District, now known as the 7th CD. In the 112th Congress, she is the Ranking Member of the House Small Business Committee and a senior member of the Financial Services Committee. In 1992, she was the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

As a fighter for equal rights of the underrepresented and a proponent of economic opportunity for the working class and poor, Congresswoman Velázquez combines sensibility and compassion, as she works to encourage economic development, protect community health and the environment, combat crime and worker abuses, and secure access to affordable housing, quality education and health care for all New York City families.

“While Rep. Velázquez has a plan to move this country forward in a way that helps hardworking middle-class families and those working to get into the middle-class, Republicans want to return to the same policies that benefitted a few but crashed our economy and punished the middle-class. The people of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens and people across the country deserve better. I need you to vote for Nydia Velázquez, in the June 26th primary and again in November,” said President Obama.