GOP Kingpin
Casale Resigns
Chairmanship
With Oberacker, Burns, Getman
In Place, My Job Done, He Says
By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com
COOPERSTOWN – Saying his work is done, Vince Casale of Cooperstown is stepping down as chairman of the Otsego County Republican Committee, he confirmed this evening.
Committee chairman since 2015, Casale has recommended Lori Lehenbauer of Worcester, the GOP county elections commissioner, as his successor.
In the past year, he's been focused on ensuring two key retirements – those of state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and state Supreme Court Judge Michael V. Coccoma, Cooperstown – would result in those positions remaining in Republican hands.
"My work is done," he said in an interview this evening. "It's time for a change."
