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Faso, Teachout Romp

Here, Throughout 19th

ballot boxCOOPERSTOWN – Republican John Faso and Democrat Zephyr Teachout will joust Tuesday, Nov. 8, for the 19th District Congressional seat after each trounced opponents in today’s primaries.

In Otsego County, Faso, a former Assembly minority leader and gubernatorial candidate from Kinderhook, beat businessman Andrew Heaney of Dutchess County 1,041-394, or 72 percent to 27 percent.

District-wide at 10:45 p.m., Faso was leading Heaney by 63 percent to 37 percent with 74 of the precincts reporting, and was the anticipated winner of the nomination.

Locally, Teachout, a Fordham law professor who beat Governor Cuomo in 39 Upstate counties, including Otsego, in the 2014 Democratic primary, bested Ulster County farmer and journalist Will Yandik 1,020 (70 percent)  to 437 30 percent).

District-wide, she was leading 77 percent to 33 percent.

 

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