Abbate, Stammel Split On Teachout County Committee Meets Feb. 10 To Endorse COOPERSTOWN – A majority of the 19th District’s Democratic county chairs, including Otsego’s Richard Abbate, supported former gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout to run for the seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, at year’s end. The chairs, with Abbate participating by speaker phone, met in Hudson on Saturday, and the chair said he would seek a unified front when he convenes the full county committee Tuesday,…
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Republicans Sue To Knock Sharratt Off Hartwick Ballot COOPERSTOWN – The county Republican Committee is going back to court this week to try to knock another Democrat off the ballot, county Democratic Chair Richard Abbate said this evening. “They must have a lot of money for legal fees,” he said. According to Abbate, the GOP committee has filed papers challenging one of the petitions submitted by Juli Sharratt, the Hartwick Town Board member who won the Democratic primary for town…