A Gibson spokesperson said they’ll try to make the best of it by installing a handicapped buzzer in the lobby and by holding meetings with those unable to get upstairs in a ground-floor conference room. The office itself is modern, with parking and a nice view of Midtown backyards.
Meanwhile, after an extensive interview process that attracted more than 50 applicants, the congressman has announced his UlsterCounty district staff. George Christian, a retired Army sergeant and former manager of Gibson’s Saratoga office, will be the Kingston office manager. He specializes in veterans’ issues.
Duane Postupack, husband of County Clerk Nina Postupack (the pair managed Gibson’s Ulster campaign) will represent the congressman as a part-time staffer. The congressman is apparently the forgiving type. Word around was he was none too pleased with Ulster Republicans after losing the county by some 4,600 votes while the unknown Tkaczyk from the Duanesburg boondocks was taking a third of the county by almost twice as many.
The bilingual Corrine Boughton, a Kingston native, SUNY New Paltz graduate and former manager at Deising’s Midtown, will be a full-time caseworker for Gibson. Bakery customers, most of whom the former manager greeted on a first-name basis, will miss her cheery disposition. My advice to the congressman, had he asked, would have been to leave Corrine and take the cannolis.
The congressman is scheduled to address a breakfast meeting of the Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce at the Holiday Inn at 7:45 a.m. next Tuesday. His Kingston congressional office, which will be open 9 to 5 weekdays, will host an open house that day from noon to 1:30 p.m. Phone: (845) 514-2322; e-mail: [email protected].
“[Tkaczyk] will have to tread carefully between her own liberal philosophy and Amedore’s shadow. If Amedore had gotten 10 more votes out of more than 122,000 votes cast, he’d be the senator.”
Really, Hugh? If this had gone the other way, do you think Amedore would have let the thinness of the margin restrain him even slightly? I say Cecilia’s victory in a district so heavily gerrymandered *against* her has to count for a lot.
Of the 99 ballots that were ordered opened in Kingston, of those ballots 90 were from Ulster County (including 53 from poll workers who had submitted them prior to the two-week window before the general election.)
Lets see,53 votes that were submited before they were legally authorised to and Tkacyk won by 18 votes. Do the math.
Shouldn’t those 53 votes be declared invalid? Hmmm…something very fishy going on here, perhaps fraud?