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From Vermont View-it was just that tricky context thing!
Scott said he didn’t mean to suggest that Democrats were not working hard after Irene.
“I said it, but I didn’t mean it the way it sounded, I guess,” Scott said. “In retrospect, it wasn’t the best thing to say.”
His quotes were “taken out of context quite a bit,” Scott said.
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Whoa now- that’s not right at all. Lt.Gov. Phil Scott certainly took a bad partisan skid at a Republican Harvest Dinner with this post-Irene observation on recovery work.
…. As I crisscrossed the state and witnessed recovery efforts, and saw the truck drivers, the equipment operators, the law enforcement personnel, the National Guard members, the municipal leaders… and it may have been my imagination, but I do believe most of them who were doing the work were Republicans.”
Normally a steady political driver, Scott then over-steered to the right and managed to get all four wheels off the road.
Scott concluded, “We’re the party of common sense. We are the doers. We’re the ones that get the work done…. Isn’t it ironic that with the majority of Vermonters declaring themselves Democrats, that Governor Shumlin would have to lean on Republicans like myself and Neale Lunderville to help steer the ship, to come up with common sense solutions during adversity to get things done.”
Phil Scott comes across as kind of a 3rd rate hack in this story.
for the bipartisan fig-leaf!
This kind of clumsy partisanship is certainly a change of pace for Scott… but it was inevitable, if he has any thoughts of running for the corner office. And I have to say, Shumlin left himself wide open for this stuff when he cozied up to Scott and hired Lunderville.
Shumlin better wake up and understand that Scott and his buds are laughing out loud at him for being so naive. Sometimes sleeping with an enemy can backfire on you.
That kind of Republican Lie makes me so angry.
Hey, Scott, you liar! I worked my ass off for total strangers after Irene, helping Republicans and Democrats both, alongside Republicans and Democrats both.
This is exactly why I can never vote for Republican politicians: because they are all psychopaths, full of hatred for their fellow citizens. So for him to say that all Democrats are lazy and selfish and don’t have common sense is not just insulting to ALL Vermonters, but it is a disgusting lie.
Until recently Vermont had been isolated from Republican Lies like these. But after 8 years of Douglas and now this, the TeaBagger mentality has been seeping in, and now 4$$holism like this is rampant.
Republicanism isn’t ‘common sense’, it’s sociopathology-as-public-policy, designed to inflict as much pain and misery on as many people as possible.
Give Scott a break. He is a Republican at a Republican function, highlighted by a top-notch right winger and was probably looking for a laugh.
Shumlin’s hiring of Lunderville is much more troubling than Scott’s off-the-cuff remark. Allowing one of the chief foxes to reside in the hen house is not a real bright idea. Especially since he represents not only the Douglas administration and the future Republican party, but also Green Mountain Power.
I do not know. Maybe hiring Lunderville for this is a way to take the wind out of his sails. Who knows. Shumlin is anything but stupid. Scott’s remark just seems callous and dumb, not to mention a complete lie and another of those divide and conquer tactics of the GOP. They are the party of humiliation and fear, designed to propagate the interests of a particular social class with a lot of money. Scott is one of them.