Letter from Dan Wilber

Wilber: ‘Keep the Experience’

We have two candidates in the running for Otsego County clerk. Jennifer Basile, a paralegal, and a notary who has been working in that office for 14 years. Jennifer has been the deputy clerk for seven of those years. She knows the complex workings of that office inside in out. Local attorneys who are a prime source of the documents maintained by the office give her great reviews. Jennifer understands the importance of these documents and the requirement for accuracy and completeness.

Then we have MacGuire Benton. MacGuire, 25, a former four-year, part-time Cooperstown Village Trustee, with a year and a half as a deputy elections commissioner and three years in sales in a local business. This time totals about six and a half years of non-relevant positions. MacGuire boasts 10 years of excellent customer service. Where and how? My math places him counting time back to the age of 15? Further, he doesn’t even appear on the notary public list.

I can speak for myself in stating that with 33 years of local and state government supervisory experience, six years as a town justice and eight years as a county board member, I wouldn’t know what to do in that office. Let’s keep the experience and elect Jennifer Basile for Otsego County clerk.

Dan Wilber
County Representative for District 10,
Burlington