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Republicans Keep County Board Majority By JIM KEVLIN & LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Republicans rained on the Democrats’ parade on Election Night, Tuesday, Nov. 5. Republican Rick Brockway won Laurens-Otego’s District 3, 697-548, turning back a Democratic effort to take control of the county board for the first time in memory. “Otsego County is red,” declared a jubilant Republican County Chairman Vince Casale. “It has always been red. It will always be red. People in Otsego County…
2019 GENERAL ELECTION CASALE: BROCKWAY TURNS BACK OGDEN LAURENS – A few moments ago, county Republican Chairman Vince Casale said it appears Rick Brockway has won the District 3 Laurens-Otego, keeping the GOP in control of the Otsego County Board of Representatives. According to Casale’s tally, which he stressed was unofficial, Brockway had 877 votes to Democrat Caitlin Ogden’s 677, with only 100 absentee ballots in play. An Ogden victory would have shifted the county board to a Democratic majority…
ELECTION EDITORIAL Vote Farwell, Brockway For County Board Seats 2017 – now, that was a year for local democracy. Twelve of the 14 seats on the Otsego County Board of Representatives were contested – only Gary Koutnik in Democratic Oneonta and Dan Wilber in Republican Town of Burlington got a pass. This year, regrettably, there are three, but one race calls out for an endorsement: Michele Farwell, the Democrat running for reelection in District 2 (Morris, Butternuts and Pittsfield). Send…
EDITORIAL Democrats Signal Plans To Republicans Otego-Laurens District 3 Shift Can Take Away GOP’s Majority Friends, the Democrats are coming to get us, and it isn’t going to be pretty. Chad McEvoy, the local party’s brainy director of communications, sent out an email on Oct. 1 that affirms an editorial that appeared here in early summer – the future of party politics in Otsego County will be determined in District 3, where two newcomers, Republican Rick Brockway and Democrat Caitlin…
THE McEVOY MEMO County Manager, Certainty; Energy, Pot Still Up In Air Editor’s Note: Chad McEvoy, the Otsego County Democratic Party’s communications director, emailed this memo Oct. 1, alerting county Democrats they are one seat away from winning a majority on the county Board of Representatives, and what it means if that happens. By CHAD McEVOY • OCDC Communications Director In 2019 the political stars are aligning just right to give Democrats the best shot yet at capturing an outright…
CONTROLLING COUNTY BOARD Rick Brockway Family Legacy Made Political Bid Natural Step By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com LAURENS – A couple of months ago, Rick Brockway, a farrier by trade, arrived at a farm east of Stamford, just over the Schoharie County line. The grandmother there directed her grandkids: Go up to the pasture and bring down the horse. As they led the horse to be re-shoed, it got caught in a gate. It reared, and its front…
OTSEGO COUNTY 2019 PRIMARIES Dist. 3 Candidate Jumps Claim On Independence Line LAURENS – Rick Brockway, Republican candidate for the county board from District 3, expected to coast onto the Independence Party line yesterday, Primary Day in Otsego County. Instead, Laurens-Otego Democrats packed the polls and, by 30 votes to 4, seized the line for their candidate, Caitlin Ogden. “Our campaign has a great deal of momentum and we’re looking forward to November,” MacGuire Benton, Cooperstown village trustee and Ogden…
FORMER CHAIR RETIRING Clark Doesn’t File Petitions For Reelection Brockway, Ogden Vie In District 3 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A dominant actor appears to be leaving the political stage: By today’s 5 p.m. deadline, county Rep. Kathy Clark, R-Otego, the former two-term board chairman, had not filed petitions to run again for her District 3 seat. Absent an independent filing, it appears that either Republican Rick Brockway, the outdoors columnist and farrier from Laurens, or…
Newcomer Seeks County Rep Seat In Clark’s District If Former Chair Doesn’t Retire, She May Face Primary In June By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Ric Brockway of Laurens, former teacher, ferrier and writer of a popular outdoor column, is running for the Republican nomination in District 3 (Laurens and Otego). He would face county Rep. Kathy Clark, the former board chairman, unless she retires. She did not return a call this afternoon as to her intentions.…