Right Side Up – Post Election Analysis
Bill and Mike peer through the settling dust to dissect the results of the Nov 5th, 2024, elections.
Right Side Up – Post Election Analysis
Bill and Mike peer through the settling dust to dissect the results of the Nov 5th, 2024, elections.
VDCTV – VT GOP Chairman Paul Dame
Vermont Republican Party Chair Paul Dame joins the program to review the 2024 election results and the pick-ups that turned Vermont from Blue to Purple.
Did A Third-Party Candidate ‘Help’ Republicans Beat A Dem Incumbent?
In an election in which a socialist third-party candidate won 13,000 votes, Democrat-turned-Republican John Rodgers defeated Progressive/Democrat incumbent David Zuckerman to win the general election for lieutenant governor. The lieutenant governor race featured two farmers – Rodgers, hemp, and cannabis on his fifth-generation farm in Glover, and also a contractor, and Zuckerman, on the fruit … Read more
VT Republicans Break Dems Legislative Klan Bake
Vermont Governor Phil Scott has to be happy. He can actually veto crappy bills with some hope they will be sustained. It is an opportunity given to him by Vermonters, as they helped Republicans flip six State Senate Seats, breaking the Democrat’s supermajority legislature. Republicans toppled Democratic incumbents in the Addison, Orange, Chittenden-North and Grand … Read more
After Yesterday, Vermont is a Purple State
BIG GOP WINS IN HOUSE AND SENATE – the Franklin County House and Senate delegation (see St. Albans Rep. Casey Toof above) will be all Republicans in January, and the Senate has six new Republican senators – including Chittenden North winner Chris Mattos (to right of Toof) and Larry Hart of Orange County. It’s six … Read more
Right Side Up – Get Out And Vote!
The election is finally here, which means get up, get out, bring friends and family, and vote! We’re talking all things …2024 election.
It Will Not Cost “Pennies”, Is Not Just a Study, and It Will Not Help Poor People.
To whom it may concern: Advocates for the Clean Heat Standard insist that the program will only add a few cents to the price of fossil home heating fuels (oil, kerosene, propane, fossil natural gas), that the law, Act 18, is “only a study,” and that, if implemented, it will help low-income Vermonters by lowering … Read more
Right Side Up – Election Integrity?
Is there more to election integrity than secured votes and ballots?
Not So Safe State
The day after the Burlington Free Press published its Safest State story about Vermont, the UK Daily Mail dropped a bomb on Burlington: “The idyllic northeastern state being ravaged by drugs, crime, and homelessness: ‘People don’t feel safe.‘“ I missed it when writing about the former, though I did point out the latter. We’ve been observing the … Read more
Big VTGOP Pickups in the House?
It was a surprise this week when Independent Representative Laura Sibilia (I-Dover) announced with two weeks left to go before the November 5th election that she is challenging the incumbent Speaker of the House, Jill Krowinski (D-Burlington), for the gavel. So many questions! Why now? And why would Sibilia think for even a nanosecond that … Read more
VDCTV – Vermont Elections
This week, Gates and Soros money is being used to bail out repeat offenders in Vermont, a challenge for the Speaker of the Vermont House: can Republicans replace the Democratic majority, the Bernie Sanders Gerald Malloy debate, and other VT State House and Senate news.
Safe State Ranking Includes Climate Harms and Unemployment?
The Burlington Free Press has a headline announcing Vermont as the Safest State in the Nation. The accolade follows a release by Wallet Hub, which the story notes “is based on data of assaults per capita, total loss from climate disasters per capita and unemployment rates.” Whhaaaat? “The safest states in America protect their residents … Read more
Safe Injection Sites
Do they increase drug use? A Vermont bill proposes to create safe injection sites around the state for substance abusers (aka drug addicts) who inject opioids and other drugs. This has understandably proved controversial, and I feel compelled to chime in. I ask readers to hear me out — I may not be very popular … Read more
Publicly Funded ‘Forum,’ …More Partisan Nonsense
FPF Really Means “For Progressive Favoritism” Last week, I read an article in VT Digger about Front Porch Forum, the Vermont community-based “classifieds” social media platform where one can get help finding a lost pet, advertise a lawn sale, sell that thing that’s been sitting in your basement for ten years and ‘tis the season, … Read more
Right Side Up – Green Energy Debacle
This week we discuss the green energy debacle, SOS office and website in disarray, and … turtle smuggling.
Here Comes the Other Carbon Tax!
For good reason, there has been a lot of focus on the supermajority’s intention to implement a carbon tax on home heating fuels (oil, propane, kerosene, natural gas) in order to meet the greenhouse gas reduction mandates of their Global Warming Solutions Act. The big vote on the Unaffordable Heat Act is coming up right … Read more
VDCTV – Democrats Run From Their Roll Calls Votes
Sam Douglass is a candidate for State Senate in Orleans County and a lifelong Jay Peak resident.
Commission Assigned to Solve Property Tax Crisis Suggests More Taxes/”Bake Sales”
Before we get into the meat of today’s topic, here’s a quick review of how property tax reform has gone down in Vermont since Act 60 became law in 1997: Property taxes go through the roof…. A critical mass of voters howl…. The Democrat-controlled legislature promises in public they’ll do something about it, but in … Read more
A Laugh Out Loud Funny Biomass Boondoggle Problem in Vermont
The hippies took Vermont over years ago, and the years of “recreational” drug use have finally shown up in their political offspring. I’m not laying claim or exclusive rights to the discovery. There are reams of evidence on these and like-minded pages, covering years, that make the case, but I think this rises to the … Read more