Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Tuesday’s Republican sweep of city races underscores the problems in the fractured city Democratic Party, observers of city politics said the day after the election.
A court-ordered impoundment of malfunctioning voting machines in four Fulton County towns was lifted Wednesday, but officials at the county Board of Elections said they were still waiting for the formal notification that will allow them to sort out town races in Northampton and Broadalbin.
It was a Republican sweep in Glenville Tuesday as Town Board member Chris Koetzle ousted Democrat Supervisor Frank Quinn and Republicans Alan Boulant and Sid Ramotar claimed the two Town Board seats.
Independent candidate Dayton King won a four-way contest Tuesday for mayor of Gloversville, according to unofficial results, beating the closest runner-up, Republican Jo-Ann Clear, by 147 votes.
Five-term Clifton Park town supervisor Philip Barrett won an easy victory Tuesday, defeating William “Bill” Casey, a former president of the Shenendehowa Central School District Board of Education, by a 2-to-1 ratio.
Interim Fulton County Family Court Judge Edward Skoda will face Gloversville City Attorney John Clo in the general election for family court judge Tuesday.
