{"id":81908,"date":"2017-06-18T07:26:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T11:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=81908"},"modified":"2017-06-17T23:10:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T03:10:20","slug":"mohawk-valley-nine-promise-support-for-vernon-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=81908","title":{"rendered":"Mohawk Valley Nine promise support for Vernon Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_76942\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76942\" style=\"width: 134px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=76942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76942\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76942\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Brian-Miller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Brian-Miller.jpg 134w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Brian-Miller-101x150.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Mohawk Valley Nine, a bipartisan coalition of state legislators representing Herkimer, Madison and Oneida counties, today voiced their strong support for Vernon Downs. Following a meeting of the Mohawk Valley Nine to discuss end of session priorities, the delegation released a statement pledging to work together to save Vernon Downs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVernon Downs is a Mohawk Valley fixture employing 300 people, supporting surrounding businesses, and bolstering our state\u2019s equine industry, while at the same time contributing $12 million a year to help educate our public school students. Supporting Vernon Downs is critically important for our region. As we head down the final stretch of the legislative session, we are strongly advocating that action be taken before we recess next week to save this anchor employer and provide financial stability going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mohawk Valley Nine is comprised of delegation co-chairmen Senator James L. Seward (R\/C\/I\/Ref \u2013 Oneonta) and Assemblyman Bill Magee (D \u2013 Nelson), Senator Joseph A. Griffo (R \u2013 Rome), Senator David J. Valesky (D \u2013 Oneida), Senator Jim Tedisco (R\/C\/I\/Ref \u2013 Glenville), Assemblyman Marc Butler (R\/C\/I \u2013 Newport), Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush (R\/C\/I \u2013 Black River), Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi (D \u2013 Utica), and Assemblyman Brian Miller (R\/I \u2013 New Hartford).<\/p>\n<p><em>Assemblyman Miller represents the 101<sup>st<\/sup> District consisting of parts of Delaware, Herkimer, Oneida, Orange, Otsego, Sullivan and Ulster counties. For more information, please visit Assemblyman Miller\u2019s<a href=\"http:\/\/nyassembly.gov\/mem\/Brian-D-Miller\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/nyassembly.gov\/mem\/Brian-D-Miller\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1497840218112000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG7Ph4mOVJl7sTEljn1ohOhaoFokQ\">Official Website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mohawk Valley Nine, a bipartisan coalition of state legislators representing Herkimer, Madison and Oneida counties, today voiced their strong support for Vernon Downs. Following a meeting of the Mohawk Valley Nine to discuss end of session priorities, the delegation released a statement pledging to work together to save Vernon Downs. \u201cVernon Downs is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81908","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=81908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}