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19TH CANDIDATES IN COUNTY

GOP COMMITTEE

BACKS LAWYER,

VET V. DELGADO

Telling a story of military service and personal challenges overcome, Kyle Van De Water of Millbrook, Dutchess County, this evening won support of Otsego and Schoharie counties'  GOP executive committees to challenge Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19th, in the November elections. At left is Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-Schoharie, who is unchallenged for the Republican nomination in the 102nd District.  At right is Jan Bartow, Town of Middlefield committeeman; foreground is Steve Curry, City of Oneonta committeeman. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Ola Hawatmeh, founder of OLASTYLE in St. Louis who returned home to Poughkeepsie to run for Congress, said she plans to stay the course through a primary.

WORCESTER – Kyle Van De Water, a lawyer, Army veteran and father of three triplets – his daughter, challenged since her days in the womb, has undergone 30 operations in her 10 years – received the unanimous backing of the Otsego and Schoharie county Republican committees' executive committees here this evening to challenge freshman Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-Rhinebeck, in this fall's election.

The straw poll, while expressing the executive committees' consensus, must still be affirmed by a meeting of the two full county committees.

Meeting at Worcester's White House Inn, executive committee members heard from both Van De Water and the other Republican contender, Ola Hawatmeh, a Poughkeepsie native and successful fashion entrepreneur in St. Louis, Mo.

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