Condos, Salmon apparent winners

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Salmon looks to be far enough ahead that his re-election as Auditor seems like a done deal. Name recognition and incumbency win again. Disappointing, but it shouldn’t be a big surprise.

On the other hand, Jim Condos has just declared victory in the Secretary of State race. Cutting off Jason Gibbs’s ascension is something we will all be indebted to former Senator Condos for for some time to come.

15 thoughts on “Condos, Salmon apparent winners”

  1. This guy did a bad job — the state was victimized by a $500,000 embezzlement.

    He showed himself to be craven and disloyal by switching parties.

    He was busted for DUI, and his response was to whine and complain and play the victim and throw his weight around like a spoiled, privileged teenager.

    If Tom Salmon wins, I have to ask whether ANY Vermont incumbent could do ANYTHING so bad that he’d get turned out.

  2. It’s very hard to beat an incumbent, no matter who they are or how bad they are at the job.

    This is doubled by the fact that there was so much attention to the top of the ticket that the majority of voters didn’t know anything about this race.

  3. “The Salmon Awards” can linger on, like the bouquet from an overripe halibut, providing endless hours of fun on GMD.  I have two deserving local candidates in mind right now!

  4. … to a role in which he can help prevent any losses that another Salmon term would ordinarily create.

    And let’s hope Doug runs again in 2 years – we NEED a competent auditor!

  5. I’m not ragging on anyone for needing to finance their campaign. I’m saying that when a guy within sight of retirement age can’t loan his own campaign $3000, that guy should probably jump at a steady job with a pension attached. There aren’t a lot of ways to go from zero to comfortable retirement in ~10 years, but a pension is one of them, and “independent consultants” don’t get those.

  6. Congratulations to Doug on working hard to become Vermont’s Auditor. I know he would have done a better job than Thomas Salmon and I want to sincerely thank him for running.

    That being said, this was a statewide office that the Democratic party SHOULD have won. Running a first time candidate in a statewide race was a mistake and I wrote about it back in July:

    Some contributors here that I respect greatly may have a problem with what I’m about to type.

    I may be the first to question this on GMD, but it’s not the last time it’ll be asked:

    Is Doug Hoffer capable of winning this race?

    The blow-out article in yesterday’s BFP was mostly nicey nice, but it articulated a concern I have had with Mr. Hoffer over the years at GMD.

    Rep. Kitzmiller noted Hoffer “can sometimes be abrasive, but he isn’t often wrong. I’ll take the prickly if he is right.”

    One doesn’t have to go to far back in the GMD archives to observe that Mr. Hoffer can be, at times, somewhat “prickly” with those he disagrees with. While I appreciate the incredible amount of experience and factual data that Mr. Hoffer brings to our discussions, I, too, have experienced the prickly. I agree with Mr. Kitzmiller that I don’t often find what Doug says to be “wrong”, but I must say that sometimes the message is lost in the messenger’s delivery.

    I don’t believe I’m concern trolling here. In fact, I will vote for Doug in both the primary and the general election. The challenge as I see it for Doug is to get out in front of this (mis?)perception. As is often the case, I believe it will be paramount in this race that Candidate Hoffer is able to introduce and define himself to Vermonter’s before the other candidates do. While Hoffer’s website is a start, I believe it will be an incredibly arduous uphill battle to wrest this office away from the incumbent.

    by: farjas @ Tue Jul 13, 2010 at 10:10:50 AM EDT

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    I’m not sure what the lesson is but I’m hopeful that one will be learned.

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