Posted: Sept. 23, 2006

CASTLE GOES TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER FEELING SICK

By Celia Cohen
Grapevine Political Writer

U.S. Rep. Michael N. Castle was undergoing medical tests Saturday evening at Christiana Hospital near Stanton after feeling sick in the morning, his deputy chief of staff said.

Castle, a Republican up for election this year, was at his beach house in Dewey Beach with his wife Jane when he felt woozy. He first went to Beebe Medical Center in Lewes and then was helicoptered upstate.

His office was releasing little information beyond a one-sentence statement shortly after 4 p.m. from Elizabeth B. Wenk, the deputy chief of staff. It said: "Rep. Castle woke up feeling ill, was taken to Beebe Medical Center and transferred to Christiana Care, where he remains under observation."

Castle had put in a full week, beginning last Saturday when he held a fund raiser at the DuPont Country Club in Rockland with House Majority Leader John A. Boehner and then was in Washington for the congressional session.

Castle, 67, of Wilmington, has held statewide office for 25 years as a one-term lieutenant governor, two-term governor and seven-term congressman. He is being challenged by Democrat Dennis Spivack and two minor-party candidates.

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