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"Democrat Aaron Woolf of Elizabethtown is campaigning to represent New York's 21st Congressional District.On the WPTZ Mobile App? Click here for the video. Woolf chose to make his first public appearance in Plattsburgh at this morning's Chamber of Commerce breakfast.\u201CI\u2019ve never run for office before. I've never been a political operative or anything like that,\u201D said Woolf.The first-time candidate was endorsed by his party in February shortly after Democratic incumbent Rep. Bill Owens announced he would not seek re-election.\u201CI've been to this part of the world since 1968 when I was 4 years old and my parents first bought property here and more than any other place in the world, this place is close to my heart,\u201D said Owens.Woolf studied political science at Middlebury College and said his 20 years in the political documentary film industry has given him a solid grasp of the issues.\u201CThis has been a passion of mine my whole life. I feel like all of the work I did in documentary was about how people are affected by policy,\u201D said Woolf.Woolf said his films have addressed a number of voters' chief concerns, which he said has uniquely prepared him to represent his district in Washington.\u201CI\u2019ve done films on agriculture. I've done films on transportation. I've done films on immigration -- big broad themes -- but usually connected to the human dimension of policy decisions,\u201D said Woolf.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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