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MARIETTA VS. WALKER ARGUED Judge Grills Dem Lawyer At ‘I Love Otsego’ Hearing By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com Judge Eugene D. Faughnan COOPERSTOWN – State Supreme Court Judge Eugene D. Faughnan said he expects to make a decision by Monday on the dispute over the “I Love Otsego” ballot line between county Rep. Andrew Marietta, D-Cooperstown/Town of Otsego, and his Republican challenger Tim Walker. But at today’s hearing at the state Supreme Court here, he closely questioned Marietta’s lawyer, Dennis Laughlin, on his brief arguing Marietta’s case, and stated at one point, “The case law seems to say,…
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MARIETTA: I NEVER HAD A CHANCE Election Board Employee Filed On Walker's Behalf By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Andrew Marietta Tim Walker COOPERSTOWN – Republican Tim Walker never filed for the “I Love Otsego” independent ballot line, according to the Democratic incumbent, Andrew Marietta. “It was a Republican board of elections employee who brought them in and filed them,” he said in a text following yesterday’s state Supreme Court hearing on the matter. “The employee had access to the building far before anyone else, so there was never any way I was going to beat them for ‘I…