Faso tough to reach, but we’re getting there

Dear Editor: Do you remember, as a child, playing with those Russian nesting eggs? You would twist open a large plastic or ceramic egg and find another egg inside. Twist and turn, twist and turn, until you finally reached the tiny egg at the center of the mysterious toy.

U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-Kinderhook, has laid such an egg on his constituents in the 19th Congressional District who try to communicate with their representative.

First, he evaded residents for months, offering only “teletown halls,” where he controlled the callers and questions. Constituents cracked open the egg to get the real, rather than the canned, Faso.

But visitors to his Kingston office found that when they became too troublesome, the staff refused access to the office and only took written comments in the downstairs lobby. Cracking open another egg, protesters outside his office were told by apparent security employees of the building that they could not enter it.

Persisting in their demonstrations, constituents most recently twisted another egg to find on a door a notice from the management of Faso’s office building, directing district residents to call a phone number to reach his office or arrange an online meeting.

Constituents continue to crack open the egg to reach the John Faso, who by now is getting smaller and smaller. Tom Denton

Highland