CLARK RULES!
(AT LEAST IN ’17)
Chair Turns Back Challenge,
But Colleagues Are Divided
By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
COOPERSTOWN – Four-year Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, was elected to another year on the helm of the county Board of Representatives, but it was ugly.
She ended up with 3,341 weighted votes, comfortably above the 3,115 majority, but hardly a landslide.
Three of the eight Republicans on the board didn’t vote for her: her challenger, Len Carson, Oneonta, voted nay, and Peter Oberacker, Maryland, and David Bliss, Cooperstown/Middlefield, abstained.
The four Democrats, Andrew Stammel, Town of Oneonta, Gary Koutnik, Oneonta, Andrew Marietta and Kay Stuligross voted for Carson. (The earlier notation that Stuligross voted for Clark was incorrect.)