EXCERPT from JOE BIDEN First, Let’s Control COVID-19 Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from Joe Biden’s speech to the nation Saturday, Nov. 7, after his votes in the Electoral College surpassed the 270 majority earlier in the day. Now that the campaign is over – what is the people’s will? What is our mandate? I believe it is this: Americans have called on us to marshal the forces of decency and the forces of fairness. To marshal the forces of…
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Election 2020
FOOD FOR THOUGHT Identity Politics Big Loser It wasn’t clear by Wednesday afternoon who had won the White House, but one bad idea was soundly defeated on Tuesday: identity politics. The concept that the country should be divided into aggrieved categories based on race, national origin or sex – now a core tenet of the Democratic Party – lost from coast to coast. It lost in Miami-Dade County, Fla., where Cuban-Americans delivered votes for President Trump. We don’t know the…
LETTER from KENNETH J. KAVANAGH He Fired Them; Fire Him To the Editor: The list never ends. General John Kelly (former Chief of Staff), General Jim Mattis (former Secretary of Defense), Rex Tillerson (former Secretary of State), Richard Spencer (former Secretary of the Navy), John Bolton (former National Security Adviser) and on and one. The common denominator through them all is “former.” They were ALL wrong and summarily in time dismissed. In each and every case, Trump was always right.…
Democratic Candidate Dan Buttermann Renewables, Futuristic Farms Excite Challenger Buttermann By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It started when Denny Colgan was running for school board in Prescott, Ariz. He and Dan Buttermann’s dad, Kent, played in the Prescott Kiwanis Jug Band together, and the father agreed to be his friend’s campaign manager. Young Dan “saw how hard they were working,” and was captivated by the energetic strategy sessions at the Buttermann home. Even then, he knew, “I…
Assemblyman John Salka ‘I Know How To Help Constituents’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It’s been a long journey for John Salka from a boyhood in Utica’s Corn Hill section to the sumptuous New York State Capitol. His tiny 5-foot mom Carmella, a single parent, supported him and his sister Carole by working in a suitcase factory in Whitesboro. “A lot of glue; a lot of grimy work,” said the son, who at one point worked…
LETTER from JASON HEWLETT Trump, Biden Turn Voters Off To the Editor: Being a somewhat conservative Christian man, I have always preferred Republican candidates over Democrats. I have voted or wanted to vote for Republicans because they have the same views that I do on major issues such as abortion, homosexuality and prayer in public schools, to name a few. But as I get older and more educated, and I begin to understand what’s most important in life, I realize…
LETTER from P. JAY FLEISHER Vote In Election ’20 To the Editor: America is on the brink of an election that will have serious implications for the future of our Country, and indeed our democracy. I write this out concern for our immediate future, and also because I am equally concerned about the America my 6-year-old grandson will inherit. He deserves the same freedoms we all experienced growing up in a country that valued human dignity, clean air and water,…