Zephyr Telling Supporters

She Won’t Run In 19th Again

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Zephyr Teachout has begun advising supporters she won’t run for Congress next year in New York’s 19th District, which includes Otsego County.

Word was circulating today that the Fordham University law professor who moved to Dover Plains last year to contend in the 19th would not challenge freshman Republican John Faso next year.

Teachout’s brother took a message earlier this evening at their parents Staatsburg home, but no confirmation had been received as of this posting.

When Indivisible CD-19, a grass-roots coalition opposed to President Trump, began lining up candidates in February to challenge Faso, Teachout had advised them she would make a decision in June.

However, she has been telling supporters that her involvement in a suit against the president, filed in January, that seeks to have the so-called emoluments clause of the Constitution against Trump has her fully occupied for the foreseeable future.

Teachout won Otsego County, one of 11 counties in the 19th, in the 2014 gubernatorial primary against incumbent governor Andrew Cuomo.  However, she lost the county and the district to Trump last Nov. 9.