Well, well. Press release posted on Vermont Digger: “Vermonters for Health Care Freedom Announces Wennberg as Executive Director.”
Wennberg is a former Vermont Commissioner of Environmental Conservation [under Jim Douglas], a former Rutland City Mayor, and a public policy consultant. Wennberg assumes the responsibilities of VHCF from founder Darcie Johnston on March 1, 2012. Johnston is leaving the organization to focus on her consulting business.
Seems rather sudden. Why, just the other day, she was hosting an “informational session” in the NEK under the flag of convenience “Vermonters for Health Care Reform.”
My guess? She’s been a longtime advisor/consultant to Sen. Randy Brock, the putative Republican gubernatorial candidate*. At last notice, he didn’t have a campaign manager. You do the math.
*VT GOP chair Jack Lindley said last week that “the ship has sailed” regarding other candidates, and that Brock will be the Republican challenger to Gov. Shumlin.
… of living in a red state of contented bigotry.
Was really hoping this was about a different kind of coming out. Maybe next time.
If Darcie becomes the manager of Brock’s campaign, it will be a great day for Shumlin. With a smart campaign manager, Brock can be a tough candidate. With Darcie he is toast!
I’m think I saw Ms Johnston in a tv commercial on channel 22 (Thursday is tv night; last night reception was limited to 22, 5-1, 5-2, and a very broken up 3). Perhaps it wasn’t her, depends on whether that’s actually her in the photo on her FB page, and the photo quality and size make comparisons to large digital television images a bit iffy.
In any case, there’s serious money there: a 30-second commercial for Vermonters for Healthcare Freedom during prime time. I usually mute commercials, so I didn’t hear the message, but the website url was onscreen the whole time.
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. ~ Winston Churchill