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Seven candidates for office in the Oneonta area shared their visions at a forum downtown. Seated, from left, are Michele Clapperton, Eamonn Hinchey, Mike Forster Rothbart, Jill Basile, Dan Buttermann, Teresa DeSantis and Will Rivera. (Photo by Eric Santomauro-Stenzel)

Democratic Candidates Address Housing, Data Centers, More

By ERIC SANTOMAURO-STENZEL
ONEONTA

With less than a month before the November 4 local elections, Oneonta county, city and town Democratic candidates, and one independent, held a forum addressing issues from affordable housing to data centers and more on Saturday.

Candidates Dan Buttermann (mayor), Will Rivera (town supervisor), Jill Basile (incumbent county representative, 14th district), Michele Clapperton (county representative, 13th district), Eamonn Hinchey (county representative, 4th district), Teresa DeSantis (town board), and independent Mike Forster Rothbart (incumbent city council, 7th ward) spoke. Around 25 people attended the October 11 event at Wise Guys Sammy’s hosted by the Oneonta Democratic Club in downtown Oneonta.

“I’m running because I am really concerned about proposed data centers,” Rivera, the Town of Oneonta supervisor candidate, said in his opening statement. Rivera said the issue has come up repeatedly in conversations with voters.

“They’re worried because of the lack of information, and I believe government should be open, transparent, and work for the people,” Rivera said.

At a Town of Oneonta board meeting last week, representatives of Eco-Yotta Inc. billed their renewed proposal as “agribusiness,” requesting a Planned Development District as opposed to the previous request of expanding an industrial district.

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