( – promoted by odum)
Where: Tunbridge Fairgrounds
Why: WDEV Debate
Weather: Overcast with a light drizzle
After navigating his way through a small throng of overzealous Dubie co-pilots, candidate Dubie wandered over and shook the hand of my colleague and then turned to me:
Brian: Hi. I’m Brian.
Me: Hi. Nice to meet you. Where do you stand on card check recognition?
Brian: Well, I’m a union guy, and I…
Me: Yeah, yeah. I know all that, but where do you stand on card check.
Brian: I’m against it (walks away and returns to adoring co-pilots).
All I needed to know. Thanks for being honest.
Wait, no it isn’t…
Well, guess he doesn’t ‘lie’ about everything. Nice to know by being ‘honest’ he lost a vote. I like this story cause it reminds me of the ‘fuck you, you ain’t gonna vote for me anyway’ attitude you can pick up from a candidate when they’re in the company of their supporters. What someone needs to do is a ‘guerrilla action’ like Patricia Neal did to Andy Griffith in the ’57 film classic A Face In The Crowd (see the movie)–get him on audio/video saying what he really feels when he thinks the cameras and mics are off. That would be cool. I’ll bet it would amount to an overall ‘fuck you’ to most Vermonters. Then we could call him ‘Lonesome’ Dubie. I’m sure JD Ryan (who seems to know movies) and Michael Colby could pull that off.
My son was at a fair this summer. He’s a sugar maker, so he fell into a conversation at the maple exhibit with Brian Dubie’s brother, another farmer.
My son asked, “Do you really think the reactor should keep going for twenty years more than it was designed for?”
Dubie’s answer: “Sure, why not? We have dairy farms that are 150 years old.”
Must run in the family.