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HOT DEBATE IN BOARD ROOM

COUNTY TO CUOMO:

APPROVE PIPELINE

The county representatives who drafted the letter to Governor Cuomo, approved today, are Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, left, and Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, right. Powers argued the poverty and lack of opportunity it contributing to the local heroin epidemic. Frazier said the Cuomo Administration promised natural gas, to Amphenol built a new plant in Sidney; now, it has reneged on the promise. (Jim Kevlin./AllOTSEGO>com)
The county representatives who drafted the letter to Governor Cuomo, approved today, are Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, left, and Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, right. Powers argued the poverty and lack of opportunity it contributing to the local heroin epidemic. Frazier said the Cuomo Administration promised natural gas, to Amphenol built a new plant in Sidney; now, it has reneged on the promise. (Jim Kevlin./AllOTSEGO.com)

Majority:  No Gas, No New Jobs

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

COOPERSTOWN – The Otsego County Board of Representatives a few minutes ago approved sending a letter to Governor Cuomo urging him to push for approval of the Constitution Pipeline.

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Stammell pulled resolution off the "consent agenda" for debate
Stammel pulled resolution off the "consent agenda" for debate

The weighted vote was 3,672 ayes to 2,022 nays, with one absence.

Voting aye were Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla; Jim Powers, R-Butternuts; Kathy Clark, R-Otego; Meg Kennedy, R-Hartwick; Keith McCarty, R-East Springfield; Dan Wilbur, R-Burlington, Len Carson, R-Oneonta, and Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta.

Voting nay were Andrew Stammel, D-Town of Oneonta; Dave Bliss, R-Middlefield/Cooperstown; Andrew Marietta, Otsego/Cooperstown; Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, and Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta.

Peter Oberacker, R-Maryland, was absent.

The vote came near the end of today's four-hour monthly meeting, after Stammel asked that Resolution 315 be removed from the "consent agenda," which would have assured near-automatic passage.

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