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GOP PRIMARY
Ghost town New York
could play
key role
Candidates likely
to fight for delegates
By Aaron Scholder
ascholder@gannett.com
ALBANY — With the Republican primary
race heating up across the country, New
York’s party leaders think its primary could
end up having a bigger impact than originally
thought.
Despite New York’s position at the end of the
primary schedule, April 24, New York’s GOP
chairs are beginning to
think the state’s
95 delegates could mean
The Ormond Trailer Park in West Corners sits abandoned, with debris, broken windows, opened doors and condemned mobile a lot to candidates.
homes, all remnants of the September flood that devastated the neighborhood. DEBBIE SWARTZ / STAFF PHOTOS “I think it most like-
ly will be a factor,”
said Tony Casale, chief of staff of the state
Devastated flood site caught in waiting game Republican Committee. “A lot can happen be-
tween now and the 24th, but as it’s progress-
ing right now, I think New York state will be
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By Debbie Swartz
dswartz@gannett.com
WEST CORNERS — It’s a
neighborhood suspended in
time.
A West Corners trailer
park still looks today as it did
Redistricting
days after it was flooded in
September. Broken windows,
wide-open doors, twisted
pieces of metal and piles of
showdown
debris are everywhere. It is
silent in Ormond Trailer
Park, except for the occasion-
al sound of scurrying animals
on horizon
and wind-battered metal. By Michael Gormley
Nothing can be done to Associated Press
erase the memory of a flood
that wiped out dozens of ALBANY — This is a pivotal week in New
mobile homes. It’s now a York for the redistricting process that will
wait-and-see scenario while play a critical role in how the state is gov-
Town of Union representa- N erned and how its politics operate for the
tives and homeowners next decade.
await word from the Feder- And it appears the process will get longer
al Emergency Management JOHN CATLETT / STAFF ARTIST and Senate and Assembly majorities won’t
Agency on a buyout offer. meet their own timetable of voting on new
Because appraisals and ON THE WEB state legislative and congressional district
other legal matters would » See an interactive lines on Thursday. A vote by Thursday would
need to be completed even map and a photo require redistricting bills to be submitted by
if the properties are accept- gallery with this story on midnight today.
ed into the program, pressconnects.com. Disagreements on Friday made it more
» See more flood coverage at
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