{"id":74481,"date":"2016-10-25T20:34:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T00:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74481"},"modified":"2016-10-25T20:34:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T00:34:43","slug":"letters-supports-magee-and-salka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74481","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Supports Magee and Salka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=69874\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69874\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-69874\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/lettertotheeditor_logo-300x127.gif\" alt=\"lettertotheeditor_logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/lettertotheeditor_logo-300x127.gif 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/lettertotheeditor_logo-150x63.gif 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/lettertotheeditor_logo-400x169.gif 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an interesting local race shaping up for residents of Madison and Oneida counties where John Salka is attempting to replace Bill Magee for the 121 st Assembly District seat.<\/p>\n<p>Both men have served in elected office for years and both are qualified, honest, hard\u00a0working public officials. The political landscape in Albany and Wampsville suggests to\u00a0me that both should stay right where they are. If John Salka wins he would take a seat in\u00a0the NYS Assembly where he would become<!--more--> part of a super-minority Republican\u00a0conference.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is, whether we like it or not, he would have less influence to\u00a0serve the residents of the 121 st Assembly District than he does now as a Republican\u00a0member of the Madison County Board of Supervisors. Bill Magee is currently chair of\u00a0the Assembly Agriculture Committee\u00a0and serves on local government and volunteer emergency services committees, where he has been able to bring resources to the\u00a0district, especially in the area of emergency services, which have helped to stabilize our\u00a0property taxes.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a Democrat or Republican, I\u2019m a pragmatic voter who has served in local\u00a0government and I believe that John Salka can serve us best in Wampsville and Bill\u00a0Magee can serve us best in Albany, and that\u2019s the way I plan to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Kaiser,\u00a0Oneida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: There\u2019s an interesting local race shaping up for residents of Madison and Oneida counties where John Salka is attempting to replace Bill Magee for the 121 st Assembly District seat. Both men have served in elected office for years and both are qualified, honest, hard\u00a0working public officials. The political landscape in Albany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74481","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=74481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}