Politics
The city is governed by a mayor, currently Democrat Thomas W. Gillen, and a board of aldermen who are elected from the city's seven wards.
The City of Oswego is included in New York State's 48th Senate District, represented by Republican Patty Ritchie. The city is also part of the 124th Assembly District, which is represented by Republican Will Barclay.
Oswego is located inside the 23rd Congressional District of New York, which is represented by Democrat Bill Owens.
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“A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops.”
—Maurice Johnstone (20th century)
“The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)