The Daily & Sunday Review, June 5, 2008, Thursday

The Daily & Sunday Review

June 5, 2008, Thursday

The Daily & Sunday Review

Waverly man to run for county legislature;
Raymond Case of Waverly, N.Y., has announced his candidacy for Tioga County Legislature.

Case has issued a press release that states, “We are experiencing increasingly difficult times. (Case) believes addressing these difficult times requires exceptional leadership and skills. Case says his experience, training, work ethic and innate skills qualify him for the position.”

Case will be challenging incumbent Republican Andrew Quinlan in the Republican Primary. He mentioned that he has been thinking about running for a while and that a family member’s illness kept him out of the race the last time the seat in the fifth legislative district was open. Two things pushed him to run this time, Case mentioned, one being encouragement by former legislators he respected. The other was the “tough times” we are experiencing, he said, especially economically and politically. Case believes he has the “set of skills” to work across party lines and in the structure of government.

In his press release, Case outlined a few of those skills, including his “knowledge,” “leadership” and “managerial skills.”

Two concerns Case has are the economic times and government structure. Case fears, in these economic times, the possibility of “dump down economics.” He explained this as the situation when the New York State government dumps down budget items to the local level, which Case wants to “stop in the first place.” He said this leads to mandates that “cost a lot of money.”

The other concern Case has is with the government’s structure, and he says he will work with others at getting taxes “off taxpayers’ backs.” He said it’s easy for people to say they will cut taxes but “actually doing it is difficult.”

The press release adds that “Case is the retired Health and Human Services commissioner for Tioga County. He currently owns and operates Pennsylvania Avenue Consulting. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the State University of New York at Oswego and a Master’s Degree from Elmira College. During his work tenure he received significant management training from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and SUNY Buffalo. Prior to his employment with Tioga County he was employed by Chemung County for 15 years. Eleven of those years were in either supervisory or administrative capacities. Prior to that, he taught school in Elmira Heights, N.Y. He is currently a member and past president of the Waverly Community Chest Board of Directors. He has served in leadership positions on a variety of professional and non-professional boards over the years.”


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