Now that she’s going to air with her first campaign ads, Democratic mayoral hopeful Chris Quinn wants to talk about her record of results — not her looks. 
“This whole entire race has been a conversation about my record, because I think that’s what matters to New Yorkers,” said Quinn, who discussed her new TV spot, “Middle Class,” after accepting the endorsement of NARAL Pro-Choice New York Thursday.
“Now we are talking about [my record] on television as well, and I’m excited to hear from voters what they think about it,” Quinn said — before quickly adding, “Just if anyone thinks I look not good or chubby, I don’t want them to tell me.”
While Quinn, speaker of the City Council, is the only woman in the mayoral field, the NARAL endorsement wasn’t a given, said NARAL Pro-Choice New York President Andrea Miller.
“Each and every time our representatives in Albany waiver, any time an anti-choice representative in Congress tries to impose their extreme ideology on the women and families of this state and this city, she has stood up; she has stood tall,” Miller emphasized.
“She has used her power, her passion; she has demonstrated her compassion to do the right thing.”
While Quinn made the offhanded reference to her weight in a light-hearted context Thursday, it’s been a serious subject for her in the past.
In her recent memoir, “With Patience and Fortitude,” Quinn wrote that she battled bulimia as a teenager while struggling to come to terms with her mother’s terminal cancer.
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