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REALLY SICKENING VOTE

Darlene Mealy – one of only two City Council members to switch sides in the tense term-limits vote – was under such intense pressure and threats that she vomited twice at City Hall before announcing her decision, sources said yesterday.

Mealy’s “yes” vote drew gasps from the audience in the packed council chambers Thursday, since it was the first public signal that the opposition was headed to a slim defeat, 29-22.

Some council members insist Mealy, who was injured in a car crash just hours after the vote, was threatened.

“She was very upset. She kept saying she has to deliver for her district, and she was tired of being on the losing side,” said Councilwoman Letitia James (D-Brooklyn), one of the bill’s leading adversaries.

Opponents said Mealy was told she would face trouble for trying to sponsor a $25,000 grant for a Brooklyn block association run by her sister in Fiscal Year 2007.

Mealy attempted to allocate her council discretionary funds for her sister’s group, the Fulton-Atlantic-Ralph-Rochester Community Association (FARR), but the request was mysteriously pulled.

Jamie McShane, a spokesman for council Speaker Christine Quinn, denied Mealy was threatened in any way.

Proponents of the measure said it was the other side – namely the Working Families Party – that tried to intimidate Mealy by warning they would mount a campaign against her in the next election.

When a Post reporter approached her in City Hall before the vote, Mealy called out for Bill Lipton, of the Working Families Party, and hustled away without addressing questions on term limits.

“Even while we were on the floor, Bill Lipton came over to her and tried to flip her back,” said Councilman Lew Fidler (D-Brooklyn), a proponent of the bill.

He said Mealy told him “people she considered to be political allies were threatening her.”

A Post reporter saw her leave Thursday’s council meeting twice, and one member said she threw up before the vote.

Mealy issued a statement yesterday saying she changed from “no” to “yes” only after “strong deliberation.”

Mealy’s auto accident occurred Thursday night in Queens. She said in a statement that she was not seriously injured. Sources said she broke her collarbone.

sgoldenberg@nypost.com