Speaking at a town hall meeting in Port Ewen on Thursday evening, Rep. John Faso said he’ll introduce legislation this month that would prevent federal money from going toward construction projects that abide by the state Scaffold Law. Faso announced the legislation after Sue Sullivan, a Plattekill resident and one of seven Democrats challenging Faso [...]
Pasta has became the prop of choice in an ongoing fight by activists to try to stop a natural gas power plant and associated infrastructure from going online in Orange County. Last week Pramilla Malick, an environmental activist with the group Protect Orange County, submitted a box of ziti pasta to the state Department of [...]
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting freshman Republican Rep. John Faso and 24 other Republicans in a digital campaign that aims to drive Google searches to a website that demands Faso hold a town hall-style meeting. The Google search advertisements will be targeted to people’s locations and attached to a wide array of search [...]
A Kingston-based political action committee called “NY19Votes” has raised nearly $32,000 in its push to turn the 19th Congressional District blue. According to its website, NY19Votes is a grassroots group that “grew from the #Resistance and Indivisible movement after the November election.” They said they’ve already brought together nearly 400 volunteers at 12 launch sites [...]
Rep. John Faso voted Friday against controversial amendments to a defense spending bill that would have barred transgender military members from getting gender reassignment treatment and a measure that would have had the military find ways to study and identify Islamic “thought leaders” in the United States preaching extremism. In each case, Faso joined a [...]
Antonio Delgado, one of eight Democrats hoping to challenge Rep. John Faso in 2018, announced Monday that his campaign has raised more than $350,000 in the last 3 months. Delgado’s second-quarter haul follows his raising about $300,000 in the first three months of 2017. Delgado, a 40-year-old attorney for Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld [...]
The Cook Political Report, an online political newsletter, is calling the race for New York’s 19th Congressional District against incumbent GOP Rep. John Faso a toss up, even with 16 months to go before the general election. In a post on Friday, Cook said danger signs are everywhere for the GOP, citing President Donald Trump’s [...]
Democrat Pat Ryan has raised $210,000 in the three weeks since he threw his hat in the ring for the 19th Congressional District, according to his campaign. Ryan, 35, is one of eight Democrats who are challenging freshman Republican Rep. John Faso in the district next year. The general election isn’t until Nov. 6, 2018. [...]
Patrick Ryan, one of eight Democrats who’ve decided to run for congress against Rep. John Faso, has racked up his second endorsement despite the congressional race not being until November next year. Congressman Seth Moulton, D-Salem, announced the endorsement of Ryan and seven other Democratic veterans on Wednesday, saying that the Democratic Party “needs a [...]
A liberal veterans group has endorsed Democrat Patrick Ryan for Congress in the crowded race for the 19th Congressional District, nearly 18 months before the 2018 general election. VoteVets PAC, a Washington D.C.-based political action committee, was founded in 2006 and says its mission is to elect veterans to public office, particularly Iraq and Afghanistan [...]
