Richard Moody is reporting for Columbia-Greene Media at an appearance in Hudson, Tue., Nov. 21, U.S. Rep. John Faso said his no vote on the recently passed House of Representatives tax reform legislation was not a tough decision because the bill was not right for 19th Congressional District. Faso was speaking at a roundtable discussion about the tax reform bill with the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce. The “[Republican leadership] attempted to persuade me. I did not get a pass from them,” he said. Faso said his vote mostly hinged on the total elimination of itemized deductions for state and local income, property and general sales taxes. He was one of 13 Republicans that voted against the bill. Chamber members talked to the congressman for nearly an hour before the press arrived. Moody reports that the roundtable, "...was sold as an event open to the press that started at 10:30 a.m. and ran until 11:30 a.m. But the event started at 9:30 a.m. to the confusion of the press who arrived to find the whole show was finished." Faso's chief of staff apologized from Washington. "There was confusion about the start of the roundtable and a mistake was made,..." he said. The event was not included on the Kinderhook Republican's public schedule, nor was it posted to the Chamber's online calendar of events. Read the full story at HudsonValley360 [dot] com.