From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   Former Congressman Richard Ottinger,born January 27th 1929,   
   died February 16th 2026 according to local media.   
      
   I was a child when he showed up at a rally my family hosted   
   for his reelection campaign in 1968...we elected him (a   
   Democrat) only for the district lines to be changed in   
   1970 when we elected John Dow (1905-2003) to succeed the   
   Republican we'd been handed,and then again in 1972 to   
   give us the third Hamilton Fish(1926-1996) who   
   represented a district to the north of us,and   
   beat off all Democratic challengers until retiring   
   in 1994...we did not elect another Democrat to the House   
   until John Hall in 2006,after his defeat by Nan Hayworth   
   in 2010,we eventually replaced her with Sean Patrick   
   Maloney,but another redistricting gave us Mike Lawler,   
   who I am hoping will lose to a Democrat this year.   
      
   After losing a U.S. Senate race in 1970 Ottinger won   
   a different House seat in 1974 and served for another   
   10 years but we remained in Fish country.   
      
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   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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