PETITION DEADLINE PASSES GOP ELEPHANT APPEARS READY TO ROMP IN FALL By JIM KEVLIN • for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN Republican control of the Otsego County Board of Representatives appears secure after the deadline for filing petitions passed at 5 p.m. Thursday. The county Board of Elections released its list of candidates a few minutes ago. County Democrats have ceded two seats now held by its partisans to the Republicans: District 7: David Bliss, the Middlefield town supervisor, is unopposed for the…