“Professor Teachout hasn’t a clue regarding what ails the small business economy.  She doesn’t realize that the private sector needs business tax and regulatory reform from both Washington and Albany.  She doesn’t know that property taxes, workers comp rates and energy costs make New York State the worst state in the nation to do business. She supports a $15 minimum wage that will kill small business jobs and cause many small employers in upstate New York to close.  She favors higher estate taxes that destroy family owned businesses, especially small family farms.  She would do away with the property tax cap. Having just parachuted into our district from New York City, Professor Teachout has a naïve and dreamy vision of how to create jobs.  She is clueless to the fact that big, oppressive government is hurting upstate New York and our small business employers.” — John Faso

Faso is running for the 19th Congressional District on the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform lines.

As a member of the New York Assembly, Faso developed and pushed proposals that led to real balanced budgets – including the first reduction in state spending in decades while closing a $5 billion deficit. He championed legislation that made a difference for tens of thousands of families such as the STAR program and education and real property tax reform. A former board member of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, Faso also served for three years as a member of the Control Board that worked to fix the financial and managerial issues of the City of Buffalo and its school system.

Mr. Faso and his wife, Mary Frances, a registered nurse, are the proud parents of two children. They have lived in Kinderhook, New York, for more than three decades.

John Faso (R-Kinderhook) is former Republican leader of the state Assembly and candidate for Congress in the 19th Congressional district. To learn more about Faso, visit johnfaso.com.

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