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Faso Foe Getting Pumped Up With Money From Cuomo Donors, Report Says Faso Foe Getting Pumped Up With Money From Cuomo Donors, Report Says
Faso Foe Getting Pumped Up With Money From Cuomo Donors, Report Says There are six Democrats vying to challenge U.S. Rep. John Faso in his Hudson Valley congressional district. Longtime aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Gareth Rhodes, 29,  has raised a sixth of his campaign cash from Cuomo alums, according to this report in Politico, and some of those alums have gone door-to-door with him on weekends.  However, Rhodes is running in a district where Cuomo isn’t popular: Zephyr Teachout (who ran against Faso in 2016) trounced the governor in the 19th Congressional District.  Cuomo and Faso have engaged in a bitter war of words over health care and tax reform over th…

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by Jon Craig