Marriage politics get personal at Shandaken town meeting

Shandaken's Republican town supervisor, Rob Stanley, just wants to marry his secretary's daughter -- to her fiancee, that is.

This week, the Shandaken town board passed a resolution making Stanley a marriage officer, so he can preside over the upcoming wedding of Marie O'Donnell and Jennifer Sutherland.

Two of Stanley's fellow town board members supported the resolution. But fellow Republican Vincent Bernstein abstained from voting, citing "religious reasons."

The resolution was a brief item in the regular business at the monthly town board meeting, held Monday, March 5. For a full account of the meeting, see our report from correspondent Rusty Mae Moore.