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Audio Feature: This week in News for Rep. John Faso 20180605

Jun 01, 2018 10:45 am
Here's the week in the news for Rep. John Faso (R-Kinderhook), the District 19 Congressperson for the WGXC listening area. The Fivethirtyeight.com website currently reports Faso votes with Donald Trump's positions 88.3 percent of the time, the same as last week. Congress was out of session this past week, so Faso did not make any votes this week. Click here to download or play an audio version of this report (20:05).

Paul Brooks reports in the Times Herald-Record that Rep. John Faso (R-Kinderhook) was still hopeful about peace in Korea despite the on-again, off-again, on-again news of discussions between leaders of the U.S. and North Korea. Faso thinks Donald Trump will meet Kim Jong-un. “I think they will,” said Faso, who just returned three weeks ago from a five-day visit to South Korea with a congressional delegation. “I think this is bargaining by the state of North Korea and the president is right to tell them we are not going to tolerate this kind of attitude,” Faso said in a telephone interview. “We should anticipate, given the history of the North Korean state, many false starts and U-turns along the way.” Read the full story in the Times Herald-Record.

• Friday, June 1 is the deadline for new voters to register if they want to vote in the June 26 federal primary. Seven Democrats in the 19th Congressional District are vying to challenge Rep. John Faso (R-Kinderhook). There is also a Sept. 13 state primary election, before the Nov. 6 general election.

The Mid-Hudson News Network reports that Rep. John Faso attacked the Democrats running against him at the GOP nominating convention May 30 in Kingston. "Most of these guys just moved into the district to run for office,” Faso said. The other thing they're giving us is negativity; they just say no to everything, they oppose everything that we and President Trump try to do. While the other side plays their gender warfare, and identity politics, depending on what group you are part of, that's the wrong way, an un-American point of view. We shouldn't be dividing people by race and gender, and class, and party, and philosophy. We are all Americans.... The other side wants to see an America, where we are divided into segments, based upon what's your color, your ethnicity, your nationality, your sexual preference – this is what the modern Democratic has become,” Faso continued. “That's why a guy like [Sheriff] Paul Van Blarcum isn't nominated. This is not the party of JFK, of Harry Truman; it's not even the party of Hugh Carey, or Daniel Patrick Moynihan. They've gone so far Left, they don't even know what it means," Faso said. Read the full story in the Mid-Hudson News Network.


Congressperson John Faso (R-Kinderhook) did an interview with the Poughkeepsie Journal editorial board May 31, 2018.
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