Lets Point Out Seriously Stupid When A Golden Moment Presents Itself! This is a letter to the editor of the Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus newspaper, written by Democrat State Representative, Tommy Walz. In it, Walz explains his reason for voting for Peter Shumlin to become Vermonts Governor. Read Reason #3 and #4 VERY carefully. Walz never had any intention of even considering what his constituents wanted. He made up his mind long ago, based on political affiliation alone. This is seriously sick politics: Opinion | Letters My vote for governor January 09,2015 My vote for governor I was heavily lobbied with phone calls and emails, most of them urging me to vote for Scott Milne for governor. My choice was to vote for Peter Shumlin, and here is my reasoning. 1. Many of my callers and writers used the argument that we should vote by the way our district went in the November election and pointed out that Milne carried more counties than Shumlin and therefore should be our next governor. That would make sense if we used some sort of electoral college system to elect our governors in Vermont. Instead we choose our top officials through direct vote statewide and not through the filter of some intervening body. After all, we are not electing the governor of Barre but of the entire state of Vermont. Whoever carries the state should carry the Legislature. 2. Others argued that I should choose Milne because a majority voted for anyone but Shumlin. This argument makes no sense to me. Since Shumlin got 1.3 percent more of the vote than Milne, you can use exactly the same reasoning to argue that an even bigger majority voted for anyone but Milne. 3. Scott Milne was not ready to be governor. Two days before the legislative election, he still had no budget and no Cabinet. We cannot put the state on hold and wait for him to catch up. 4. If Milne had a clear vision on where he wanted to take Vermont, it was not obvious during his campaign. The one concrete proposal he put forward on education funding would have caused even deeper deficits in the education fund than we are already suffering. 5. It’s my conviction that the electorate of Vermont should be choosing its governor and not the 180 members of the Legislature. This whole issue is a clear call for looking at our constitution and amending it so that we do not face this problem again. 6. Leading Republicans called for sticking with the custom of voting for the leading vote getter. Both Jim Douglas and Phil Scott have been in the position Peter Shumlin was in this year. In both cases, despite an overwhelming Democratic majority, the Legislature voted for the people with the plurality to the benefit of Douglas and Scott. Party was not the determining factor. Tuesday on “The Mark Johnson Show,” Scott Milne urged legislators to vote their conscience. That is exactly what I did. Tommy Walz Barre The writer is a Democratic state representative.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 23:02:31 +0000
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