Now that Brian Dubie has a specific, named, general election opponent, it’s probably time to summarize the week in Dubie.  First, we get the broken record of Dubie’s great big master plan, from the Rutland Herald, Dubie champions tax cuts as cure for economic woes, in which the following is noted:

Details of Republican Brian Dubie’s plan to cut income tax rates by about a third are sparse. But an unofficial analysis by the Legislature’s Joint Fiscal Office – done at the behest of a prominent Democratic lawmaker – suggests the proposal initially could cost the state nearly a quarter-billion dollars annually in forgone revenue.

We also have, a piece by CJ Curtis here at Green Mountain Daily, Brian Dubie: Invisible Man, Invisible Plan, in which CJ notes:

The contrast between what Peter Shumlin and the Democrats offer and what Dubie is offering could not be more stark. Shumlin and the Democrats will help Vermont weather the Republican Recession by targeting help to Vermont businesses, maintaining essential services, avoiding lay-offs and stabilizing our workforce, while minimizing the harm to the most vulnerable in the budget. Dubie’s plan appears to be a series of slogans and nothing in the way of specifics with respect to what programs and services he will cut after his $250 million tax cut giveaway to the richest Vermonters. He is truly the “invisible man” with an “invisible plan.”

Also this week, Sue Prent wrote a piece about Doug Hoffer going after Dubie on tax cuts.  7 Days has more:

“It is disingenuous to talk about Vermont’s ‘income tax’ for the simple reason that Vermont does not have one income tax,” Hoffer wrote, in a press statement. “It has a progressive tax system so residents pay at very different rates depending on their income. I am certain Mr. Dubie knows this so it makes me wonder why he would use such language.”

What I particularly love about this is how precise and clear it is, in stark contrast to Brian Dubie’s plan, which as I noted before, is akin to this:

In the meantime, as much as Dubie likes to pretend that Vermont is bad for business, it’s clear that there are things about it that some businesses very much like, as noted in the Rutland Herald’s piece Organic Trade Association moving to Vermont:

Vermont has been a leader in organics, not just milk, cheese, vegetables and meat, she said, but also in “food to fiber to personal care products.” Almost four percent of food purchased in the United States is organic, she said.

“We just thought, Vermont walks the walk and talks the talk,” she said.

As our United candidates for Governor noted:

“Over the past 8 years we have been an extraordinary state with very ordinary leadership. Not enough has been done to spark the ingenuity and drive that Vermonters possess to make Vermont a center of innovation and job creation,” Markowitz said. While my four fellow Democrats and I were discussing issues of job creation, renewable energy, health care reform, saving our family farms, and improving our education system during this primary, Brian Dubie was spending his time and money advertising in the New York Times that Vermont is a bad place to do business. Brian has a very simple view of the very complex problems we face.”

It’s time to put someone in the Governor’s office who loves Vermont and sees what it can be, as opposed to trying to saddle us with ridiculously high deficits and running ads in out of state papers telling everyone why it’s bad to do business here.