{"id":74372,"date":"2016-10-23T19:09:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T23:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74372"},"modified":"2016-10-23T18:13:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:13:22","slug":"magee-and-salka-face-voters-oct-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74372","title":{"rendered":"Magee and Salka face voters Oct. 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33907\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=33907\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33907\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bill-Magee.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Magee\" width=\"226\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bill-Magee.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bill-Magee-128x150.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Magee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38253\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=38253\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38253\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38253 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/salka-john-5.jpg\" alt=\"salka, john (5)\" width=\"226\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/salka-john-5.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/salka-john-5-134x150.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Salka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Assemblyman Bill Magee and challenger John Salka will answer questions from the\u00a0audience at a Candidates Forum Thursday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m. in Hamilton at the\u00a0Colgate Inn. This event is sponsored by the Hamilton Rotary Club.<\/p>\n<p>The two candidates will introduce themselves and explain why they are best qualified\u00a0to represent the voters of the 121st Assembly District. The District comprises all of Madison\u00a0County, the major part of Otsego County, the City of Sherrill and four <!--more-->Towns in Oneida\u00a0County. Audience participants are invited to ask a question addressed to both candidates;\u00a0they may follow up with a supplementary question to each candidate.<\/p>\n<p>After approximately\u00a0one hour of questions and answers, the candidates will offer closing statements. Candidates\u00a0will have their campaign literature available before the debate proceedings start.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates were nominated by their parties without opposition. Republican\u00a0John Salka, a member of the Madison County Board of Supervisors from Brookfield, has the Republican, Conservative and Reform parties&#8217; endorsements.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Bill Magee, a former member\u00a0of the Madison County Board of Supervisors from Nelson, has represented his Assembly\u00a0District in Albany since 1990. He has the Democratic and Independence parties&#8217; endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>The Forum is moderated by former Hamilton Mayor Larry Baker. Proceedings will end\u00a0approximately at 8:30 p.m. Members of the audience can then meet and speak with the\u00a0candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblyman Bill Magee and challenger John Salka will answer questions from the\u00a0audience at a Candidates Forum Thursday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m. in Hamilton at the\u00a0Colgate Inn. This event is sponsored by the Hamilton Rotary Club. The two candidates will introduce themselves and explain why they are best qualified\u00a0to represent the voters of the 121st Assembly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23814,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}