Opinion

The past week, for our Fulton community, has been one of recognition and continued support for the contributions that the veterans have made in all of our lives. The news that after 56 years, Korean War Veteran U.S. Army Corp. Joseph Trepasso would be coming home after his remains were identified, was an emotional experience for us all.

I will vote.
Whatever it takes, I will get to the polls and vote.

Yes Bipartisanship has been brought back from a near death experience. After last month’s Public Safety Committee meeting where Bipartisanism was rushed out of the meeting and given its last rites and placed on life support, all hope seemed lost.

Who should decide if elected officials should receive a raise? Should the public vote the raise in or should the elected official decide it? Three major elected officials (County Treasurer, County Clerk and Sheriff) may be receiving a raise if the legislative body votes in favor of those raises.

As finishing my second year as intern for United Way’s Stone Soup Luncheon, I would like to extend a personal thank you to all volunteers, sponsors and attendees who offered their support to the Annual Stone Soup Luncheon hosted by St. Joseph’s Parish in Oswego. Seeing so many community members, students, and volunteers come together to support a cause was once again an amazing experience.

There are people in our town who’d like you to believe with their signs and rhetoric that voting to make the Highway Superintendent position an appointed position will take away your right to vote on town issues. I’d like to counter that with some points regarding that claim. This is not an issue of “taking away our right to vote.”

I doubt that I am alone in my exhaustion with the political campaign season, or in my desire to see more qualified, honest, and impartial candidates on the ballot. One breath of fresh air is Scott DelConte, candidate for Supreme Court Justice.

Scott DelConte is a partner of law firm Bond, Schoeneck & King with nearly twenty years experience in the Supreme Court. Scott DelConte is fiercely independent. He demands that partisan politics has no place in our courts. Scott DelConte demands that court decisions be based on facts and law not political party.

On November 8, when you go to the polls to vote this year you will have a choice of four candidates for two seats on the State Supreme Court Justice in the 5th Judicial District. I want you all to take notice that this position is a non-political position.