companies be treated like public utilities,which would force them to provide service to everyone, much like the mandate for electric companies during the 1950s. Chuck Sommer of North Branch said he had met Delgado in August at a concert in Callicoon Center. “I feel like he’s open and you can communicate with him,” Sommer said. “Given all the nastiness at the national level, I think it’s refreshing that he’s a nice guy.” Sommer said he said it’s sad what’s happened to small farms and wants to see more help for them.
Chuck Sommer of North Branch
After the Town Hall, Delgado had a few minutes to talk with the media. The SullivanTimes asked him if he thought Virginia Governor Ralph Northam should resign after his 1984 medical school yearbook showed a man in black face and another with a Ku Klux Klan hood on on Northam’s page in the yearbook. “I think he should resign,” Delgado said. “We have to get to a point in this country where we don’t have a tolerance for that kind of mindset.” Delgado was also asked what he thought about President Trump deciding to abandon the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty that was signed by President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. “What I was concerned about was to what extent was there coordination with our allies in Europe. I want to know more about the process about how we withdrew...the Russians have gotten emboldened by this.’’ And after hearing that the Russians stating that they will now move ahead with proliferation, Delgado said: This intensifies the atmosphere in a way that I don’t think is typically helpful.”
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