Only a few days before the March 5th date Tom Salmon set to announce his plan to run against Senator Bernie Sanders some Vermont Republicans are fishing for other candidates.The Times Argus’ David Delecore reports
According to Barre Mayor Tom Lauzon, officials in the Vermont Republican Party have suggested he consider running for governor or the U.S. Senate next year, and he hasn’t closed the door on either possibility.
“The answer is: ‘Yes, I am considering it,’” he said Monday when asked about the possibility he might run as a Republican alternative to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Mayor Lauzon says he is considering the governor’s race too but makes it clear the senate is his choice.
“The Senate race attracts me because people say it can’t be won and I think it can,” he said
After mentioning the obligatory period of soul searching the Mayor sets a date of June 1st for his decision.
A little more subtle and from the sidelines but very much in the mix, our man Salmon might want to note the significance of new VPR commentator former Gov. Jim Douglas’ choice of the national deficit for his debut topic. He addresses the national budget, his association with the Domenici-Rivlin Commission from the Bipartisan Policy Center and speaks of the need for national leadership on this issue in the senate.Naturally he modestly reminds us of his leadership here in Vermont on this very issue.
The always sentimental Douglas shares his immediate thoughts upon first seeing his granddaughter in her crib:
Welcome to the world, I said; your share of the Federal debt is $50,000.
Sweet, but not what might immediately come to most people’s minds.
“Fortunately for you, little one, my buddies in the Party have ensured that you and all your little friends in the ‘Well-Heeled School of Upper Crust’ will never have to share in the pain of overcoming that debt. Your job is just to look pretty and ‘trickle-down’, if you will, on the unwashed masses, who may be found conveniently located under tarpaulins outside the closed homeless shelters and soup kitchens of your very own America.”
“Darling, even with the marriage penalty, if we have a couple of tax deductions, er…kids, it would be fiscally irresponsible not to get hitched.”
To be fair, when I saw my son take his first breath and scream, I thought, “thank dog for Vermont’s socialized health insurance, without which you wouldn’t have gotten such good pre-natal care and your brief time in NICU will cost us a fortune.”
Okay, I didn’t actually think that, but it’s true and helps me score a political point!
There’s almost no downside for him in running against Bernie, though Shumlin is a more vulnerable and less organized opponent. IF Lauzon runs against Bernie, and when he loses, he will still have raised his political profile immensely in Vermont.
NanuqFC
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. ~ Sam Adams
You have a net worth over $2M.
You scammed way way way north of $50K from your gummint jobs, where you didn’t do much of anything except cut ribbons and eat rubber chicken and collected perdiem while you did it. You have a quite substantial gummint pension that will pay you every day for the rest of your miserable skinflint meally-mouthed life.
Stop your whining. Even if your kids spend like drunken sailors on shore leave, your grand-daughter will end up with at least a few hundred thousand or so just for being the grand-daughter of an unctuous smarmy hypocrite.