County Judge John Lambert this morning swears in the Otsego County Board of Representatives for two-year terms. Front row, from left, are county Reps. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla; Len Carson, R-Oneonta; David Bliss, R-Middlefield, and Kathy Clark, R-Otego. Behind them, from left, are county Reps. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts; Peter Oberacker, R-Maryland; Andrew Stammel, D-Town of Oneonta, and Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Kathy Clark, R-Otego, retakes her usual seat at the front of County Board chambers after her unanimous reelection. At left is Carol McGovern, clerk of the board.
COOPERSTOWN – The only thing missing was white smoke coming out of the chimney at 197 Main.
The attempt by county Rep. Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, to replace Kathy Clark, R-Otego, as chair of the Otsego County Board of Representatives had completely fizzled by this morning.
The three-year chairperson was routinely reelected shortly after the county board's reorganizational meeting was called to order at 10 a.m. today.
It was unanimous – 6,227 weighted votes to zero. In the end, even Powers, bowing to the inevitable, voted for the woman he's been trying to build a coalition against in recent days.
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