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MARIETTA: I NEVER HAD A CHANCE

Election Board Employee

Filed On Walker's Behalf

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Andrew Marietta
Tim Walker

COOPERSTOWN – Republican Tim Walker never filed for the “I Love Otsego” independent ballot line, according to the Democratic incumbent, Andrew Marietta.

“It was a Republican board of elections employee who brought them in and filed them,” he said in a text following yesterday’s state Supreme Court hearing on the matter.  “The employee had access to the building far before anyone else, so there was never any way I was going to beat them for ‘I Love Otsego’.”

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