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N.Y. Delegation May Lose Last Republican

By RUSSELL BERMAN, Staff Reporter of the Sun | May 9, 2008

WASHINGTON — Rep. Vito Fossella’s disclosure yesterday that he fathered a child out of wedlock boosts the chances that the Democratic Party will gain total control of the city’s congressional delegation for the first time in more than a quarter-century.

A week after his arrest for drunken driving, the Staten Island Republican admitted that he had an affair and a 3-year-old daughter with an Air Force lobbyist who retired as a lieutenant colonel.