Windham Town Supervisor Thomas Hoyt said he may postpone his run for state assembly after a mid-January heart attack prompted him to “reevaluate life.”
“I’m beyond fortunate,” Hoyt, 59, said in an interview on Feb. 10. He was released from Albany Medical Center on Feb. 5 after suffering a heart attack while driving from Cairo to Windham with his 39-year-old daughter. ”I was riding with my daughter. She called 911 and we met up with EMS alongside the road.”
Hoyt, a Republican, said in December that he was entering the race for the 102nd Assembly District seat, which includes Greene and Schoharie counties along with parts of Ulster, Delaware, Albany, and Otsego counties. It’s now held by Chris Tague, a Schoharie Republican who is vacating it to run for the state Senate’s 51st District.
The 51st seat, in turn, is held by Trump-endorsed Republican Peter Oberacker, who is seeking the 19th Congressional District seat held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Josh Riley.
Hoyt said he’ll decide within the next two weeks whether to resume his campaign. He’s working remotely for now while Deputy Supervisor Wayne Van Valin, who graduated in 1979 from the Windham-Ashland-Jewett School, fills in.