What’s a supposedly nice guy like Brian Dubie doing in a campaign like this? If not skirting the truth he is certainly dressing it up in falsehoods.
He is running around saying IBM told him they will leave Vermont due to higher power rates. However in the Free Press IBM spokesman Jeff Couture clearly denies that.
“I don’t think we’ve said anything about moving jobs specifically around the electricity goals,” Couture said. “There was nothing specific, or an ultimatum.”
Dubie’s recent radio ad says that Peter Shumlin will “fire three hundred correctional officers … and release close to 800 nonviolent criminals from prison.” This latest fear-based effort comes a day after the Vermont Troopers Association endorsed Shumlin over Dubie.
Why wasn’t our man Dubie sounding the claxon of fear in 2009 when this was proposed:
“We need to continue to identify and implement new strategies that will protect our families and the safety of our communities by focusing on reintegrating property and drug offenders into the community and preserving prison beds for the most serious offenders,”
It is from a Douglas/Dubie administration plan which you might think the Lt. Gov would have passing familiarity with.
Will credibility be an issue if Dubie and his win-at-all-cost campaign team keep blowing this horn?
He is running on empty if all he has to run on is fear.
the Shumlin campaign proposed correction reform, let Dubie have his reactionary reaction, and then had the Trooper endorsement ready to release at just the right time. That’s called controlling the news cycle and reveals the reactionary remote control Dubie campaign for what it is.
Dubie could have engaged the substance of the proposal but instead went with the over the top “lawnorder” rhetorical bluster that doesnt jibe with reality or his own record.
The Dan Quayle of Vermont
Mr. Bliss says he believes this potential violation of state policy amounts to “petty.” Is that how his candidate views violations of state policy? I doubt it.
Oh. Bliss still hasn’t explained how this publicized stop suddenly turned into a good will visit as opposed to a press the flesh special.