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Police get caught between feuding family Remembering American veterans of two wars Catholic village moves forward
   VOLUME XXVII  No. 22 NARROWSBURG, NY MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2001  
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Republicans cry “foul” on Binder guarantee

By DAVID HULSE

MONTICELLO — Legislative majority leader Leni Binder’s recent guarantee that the Democratic majority in the Sullivan County Legislature would replace resigned Republican Steven Kurlander with a Democrat, has not unexpectedly stirred comments from county Republicans.

Kurlander, who took a position in the State of Florida last year, announced his June 1 resignation earlier this month as the Legislature prepared to declare his seat vacant. The district-nine representative was a two-term incumbent.

Following a May 17 Executive Committee meeting devoted to the resignation, Binder (D-7) said, “One thing I can tell you for certain, the replacement is going to be a Democrat… Good, bad or indifferent, that’s the way it’s done.”

 

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