Republican Candidate Faso
At Otsego Chamber Dinner
![With the 19th Congressional District primaries – Republican, Democratic and presidential – coming up April 19, John Faso, who is seeking to succeed his Kinderhook neighbor Chris Gibson in Congress, was in the county last night for the Otsego County Chamber annual Dinner & Celebration of Business at SUNY Oneonta's Hunt Union Ballroom. Here, he chats with NBT Regional Vice President Jamie Reynolds, left, and Bob Escher, Catskill Area Hospice development and communications director Bob Escher. Faso, who ran for governor against Eliot Spitzer in 2006, is in a three-way race for the GOP nod with Andrew Heaney, a Dutchess County oil company executive, and Bob Bishop, Hamden, a dairy farmer. (Photo from Faso campaign)](https://www.allotsego.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/faso-in-county-1.jpg)
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