Who is Rep. Faso representing?

Dear Editor, U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-Kinderhook, was a no-show at the March for Our Lives at Walkway Over the Hudson, which drew almost 8000 of us. All or most of the marchers were his constituents.

Despite refusing to meet with those same constituents regarding gun safety at a town hall forum, Faso found the time and money (Mercer money?) to send out a glossy mailer telling us how concerned he is about our children’s online safety. Perhaps he wants us to believe that his concern for what our children consume online exonerates him from taking a stand on an issue that kills thousands of them each year.

Ninety percent of us support universal background checks for gun purchases. Faso does not. Has he acted on the fact that 187,000 American students have experienced a shooting at their schools? What will it take to get his attention to the fact that gun violence is the third-leading cause of death of our children?

Apparently, our “representative’s” NRA rating is more important to him than supporting common sense gun safety, thereby making our children safer. A recipient of over $1 million from Robert and Rebekah Mercer in the 2016 election, one wonders whose interests Faso is representing. Expect a tsunami of such contributions as well as untraceable “dark money” in 2018 as the Republicans desperately try to hold onto the House and the Senate thereby protecting Trump and their agenda. Barbara Sides Gardiner, N.Y.