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PETITION DEADLINE PASSES

GOP ELEPHANT APPEARS

READY TO ROMP IN FALL

By JIM KEVLIN • for allotsego.com

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Republican control of the Otsego County Board of Representatives appears secure after the deadline for filing petitions passed at 5 p.m. Thursday.  The county Board of Elections released its list of candidates a few minutes ago.

County Democrats have ceded two seats now held by its partisans to the Republicans:

  • District 7: David Bliss, the Middlefield town supervisor, is unopposed for the seat now held by Beth Rosenthal, Roseboom, who is moving to Albany.
  • District 13, newcomer Len Carson, retiring Oneonta Fire Department captain and proprietor of DC Media, the billboard company, is unopposed as a Republican for the seat held by Democrat Linda Rowinski, who is retiring from the board.

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