AllOTSEGO.com EDITORIAL Make The Call. Avert Disaster Please, Congressman, Senator, Convince Governor To Approach Dreams Park Owner Cooperstown Dreams Park’s decision to cancel the 2020 season was only announced Friday. Two days before, county Treasurer Allen Ruffles, who chairs the county Emergency Task Force, had called Mike Walter, Dreams Park COO, and received no inkling such an economy-shattering decision was in the making. It’s not locked in concrete. It’s not too late to turn it around. Four men may be…
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Delgado Among 363 Passing COVID-19 Bill Measure Goes To Senate Monday Last night, Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-NY, joined a majority in the House in voting to pass bipartisan legislation, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. “We must to do everything in our power to keep our communities safe, and we need to act now. Over the last week we have seen the number of confirmed Coronavirus cases increase in NY-19 and across the country,” Delgado said in a statement.…
LOCAL PARTIES REACT Democrats Back Delgado; Casale Says, ‘Do Your Job’ The Otsego County Democratic Party praises Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, for his “judgment and commitment to the critical oversight role” in changing his mind and now supporting President Trump’s impeachment. But Republican County Chairman Vince Casale said the first-term congressmen is simply “appealing to a small angry group of socialist liberals who control his re-election.”…
IMPEACHMENT ‘WARRANTED,’ DELGADO SAYS For the first time, Otsego County’s Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, today declared articles of impeachment are warranted against President Trump. “Having taken an oath of office before God and my fellow citizens to support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” he said in a statement released by his office today, “I can only conclude that Congress move forward with articles of impeachment.”…
MASKIN, HERZIG IMPRESSED Delgado Meets With OFO, Says Session ‘Illuminating’ ONEONTA – U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, today met with the poverty-fighting Opportunities for Otsego’s board of directors and staff. The freshman congressman called the meeting “illuminating and deeply important to understand the headwinds facing thousands of Upstate New Yorkers experiencing poverty and homelessness.” OFO CEO Dan Maskin said he was “honored” to have Delgado visit the organization, adding, “I was thoroughly impressed that he took the time to listen…
PRESS OFFICE STATEMENT: Delgado Focused On Job, Not Next Year’s Campaign With the 19th Congressional District election still 14 months away, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado declined to engage with Adjutant Gen. (ret.) Tony German, the Oneonta Republican who filed papers yesterday to challenge the freshman incumbent next year. His press office issued this statement: “Congressman Delgado is focused on making life better for the people in our region, and working to find bipartisan solutions to lower health care costs, expand…
U.S. Grant To Milford School Expands STEM Opportunities MILFORD – Congressman Antonio Delgado, R-19, today announced $83,000 in federal funding to increase access to STEM programs in the Milford Central School through “micro credentials,” mini-degrees or certifications in science, technology, engineering and math. This funding comes from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) Career Opportunities in Rural Education-Transformative Workforce program.…
NETANYAHU, ABBAS ON ITINERARY Delgado, Wife To Join Delegation Meeting Israel, Palestine Leaders Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, and his wife Lacey Schwartz Delgado will join 41 House Democrats, led by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, on travel to Israel and the West Bank, Delgado’s office announced today. The Delgados are raising their two sons in the Jewish faith, said the father, “grounding them in an understanding of respect for all religions and with a deep appreciation for Jewish history and…
Delgado Unveils New Way To End Health Deadlock Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19th, introduced legislation Monday that would allow all Americans to buy into a version of Medicare – an approach designed to avoid the substantial system-wide overhaul that would come with any effort to create a government-run health care system. “There’s a need here to figure out where we all can come together and rally around achieving – achieving – a real change to our health care…
Delgado Co-Sponsors Bill To Create Office To Fight Spread Of Lyme Disease WASHINGTON – With Lyme disease cases rising 78 percent from 2007 to 2017 in the 19th District he represents, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado has signed on as a cosponsor to the National Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Control & Accountability Act of 2019. The bipartisan legislation creates a new Office of Oversight & Coordination for Tick-Borne Disease and would create a national plan to address Lyme disease. “Lyme disease…