Erie County Republicans endorse Faso, McFarland

Monday May 29, 2006

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Upstate New York’s largest Republican committee on Monday endorsed John Faso for governor and Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The announcement came two days before the start of the state Republican nominating convention on Long Island and as Democrats poured into Erie County for their convention.

“The Republican Party offers voters a field of excellent candidates for governor and the U.S. Senate,” Erie County Republican Committee Chairman James Domagalski said. “Ultimately we have decided to endorse John Faso and KT McFarland because they understand upstate New York and possess the ability to help solve the economic and fiscal problems that we face.”

Faso, a former state Assembly minority leader, is a member of the state-appointed control board that has been working to stabilize Buffalo’s finances. In his 2002 bid for state comptroller, which he narrowly lost, Faso won Erie County with about 30,000 votes, the party said.

I am so happy to hear that they endorsed Faso. He deserves the support from us in WNY. I knew about this earlier, I was there when the press release was released. I did not want to interrupt the post I made in Honor of our Fallen Soldiers.