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Two Faso opponents top all others nationally in fundraising
Sep 06, 2017 2:57 pm
Ben Kamisar reports in The Hill that the Congressional challengers who have raised the most money to take on an incumbent nationally are here in New York's 19th District. Democrats Antonio Delgado and Brian Flynn, who want to challenge Rep. John Faso (R-Kinderhook) in 2018. Delgado, a 40-year-old attorney who moved to Rhinebeck in January after spending two and a half years living in Montclair, N.J., has raised $652,000. Flynn, 47, of Hunter, has loaned his campaign $500,000, and raised another $254,000, for a total $754,000. Faso raised $276,105.58 in the first three months of 2017, and $337,096.16 in the second quarter of the year. Read the story in The Hill.