Sometimes, when you speak up, people listen


Office of the Speaker of the House

Representative Shap Smith

ADVISORY

April 2, 2010

CONTACT:

Tom Cheney, Office of the Speaker

(802) 828-2245

tcheney@leg.state.vt.us

David M. Coriell, Office of the Governor

(802) 828-3333

david.coriell@state.vt.us

Alex MacLean, Office of the Senate President Pro-Tem

(802) 828-3806

amaclean@leg.state.vt.us

Legislature and Executive Branches to Hold Public Hearing on Challenges for Change

Tuesday, April 6, from 5:00-7:00 pm,  the Legislature and Executive branches will hold a joint public hearing in the House Chamber on the Administration’s Challenges for Change Proposals.  The hearing is an opportunity for the public to weigh in on the proposals and offer its perspectives on how to improve outcomes in state government.

Participants will have 2 minutes to testify.  A sign up sheet will be available 10 minutes prior to the hearing.  Written comments may be submitted at the hearing emailed to challenges@leg.state.vt.us.

What: Challenges for Change Public Hearing

Where: House Chamber, Vermont State House

When: Tuesday, April 6, 5:00-7:00pm

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Thomas Cheney

Aide to the Speaker of the House

115 State Street

Montpelier, Vermont 05633-5201

Office: (802) 828-2245

Fax: (802) 828-2220

I can’t make this, but if you can, please post indicating your intent and why you’re going.

6 thoughts on “Sometimes, when you speak up, people listen

  1. (re-posted from another CfC thread)

    I keep wondering what Shap and Shummy got in trade for bending over/blinding their eyes on this Trojan Horse.

    Shap announced at the beginning of the session that no taxes would be raised, including taxes on the highest Vermont bracket, which has largely been exempt from increases (with some fallout/overlap from the change in capital gains last year). Okay, let’s just shoot ourselves in the foot, Shap, that’s a good idea. That little announcement was a gift to Gov. Douglas.

    The “pig-in-a-poke” buy-in to CfC was gift number two to the Governor.

    Are you going to miss the man from Middlebury so much that you’d shower him with kill-the-government gifts?

    So tell us, Shap — or Floyd, feel free to chime in — and Shummy, what exactly it is you got in trade for these two marvelous gifts to our lame (duck) Governor.

    A promise that Neale Blunderville wouldn’t run for governor for at least two years, perhaps?

    A promise not to bring up Entergy’s relicensing again?

    Do we know what the Douglas-Dubie Administration’s promises are worth?

    Yeah, about that much.

    So, having squandered the legislature’s budgetary leeway, what did you buy with it, guys? I really want to know.

    NanuqFC

    (new) PS: I suppose another possibility is that this is payback for the veto overrides last session. Which is it, guys, payback or political extortion?

    In a Time of Universal Deceit, TELLING the TRUTH Is a Revolutionary Act. ~ George Orwell  

  2. so unless I find a ride, I’ll have to submit my question in writing; but I really hope that everyone who is able to tries to get there. This is too important to pass up.

  3. And no one has been able to explain how changing development permitting rules to exclude public input (denied by Tom Evslin on Friday on VPR’s lunch-hour program) through giving the entire process to ANR and allowing permitting by rule and by professional certification […]

    should have ended with “saves the taxpayers money.”

    NanuqFC

    Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth — to see it like it is, and tell it like it is — to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. ~ Richard M. Nixon (accepting the presidential nomination of the Republican Party in 1968)

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