Can you feel the Brockmentum? Yep, Randy Brock is hitting the airwaves with three new TV ads, sure to light a fire under his so-far dormant campaign, and —
Wait, what’s that?
Oh. There’s a big fat typgraphical error in the middle of the first ad.
Wups. Those costly out-of-state consultants are really paying off.
The ad, which was posted online by Paul Heintz at Seven Days, features the Governor’s rendition of “Here Comes the Sun” with a series of captions underneath him listing all of Vermont’s alleged problems.
45TH IN BUSINESS FRIENDLINESS
4TH WORST STATE IN WHICH TO RETIREHIGHEST TAX RATE IN THE COUNTRY
OUR CHILDREN HAVING TO MOVE AWAY
and then, as Shumlin sings “It’s all right”…
IT’ ALRIGHT?
Yes, that’s I, T, apostrophe, and no S.
Jeebus. I could almost start to feel sorry for ol’ Randy.
Addendum: The Brock ad has been written up by Seven Days, VTDigger, and the Vermont Press Bureau. Not one has mentioned the typo.
Did they all just miss it? Or is the Brock campaign so forlorn that the press corps has decided not to kick a man while he’s down?
And that!
I chose Vermont to raise my children and start and run three small businesses specifically because there are less insane-far-right extremists like Randy Brock here.
Go back under the manure pile from which you festered, Randy Brock. Vermont doesn’t need your JohnBirch/TeaBagging lies.
It gladdens my heart greatly that batshit insane Republicans like Brock and Paige and Lindley have so little traction in Vermont. This re-affirms that my decision to move back to Vermont was the correct one.
Hey, Randy, not fair to use the Governor’s “This is why we can’t raise taxes on rich Vermonters, ever, ever, ever” talking point.
That’s the lamest thing since “that depends on what the meaning of is is”.
“I never tried to sell someone on how good something is by telling them how much it sucks.” It’s going to be hard for Randy Brock to make us feel good about selling Vermont products if he keeps bashing Vermont.
to move here from 1 state west, (and three states, if you count the time I was in Ohio dreaming of getting back here) despite knowing that a Republican had a lock on the governor’s chair – but mainly due to what I saw as a bright and sensible future for me and (at the time) the hope of someday raising a family here (just needed the other half of the equation).
What I saw:
Serious thought and effort into marriage equality and civil rights.
Rumblings of a better way to do the managing and paying for side of the health care equation (and friends at the time with some folks on Catamount).
Sensible development rules.
Small town politics that include town meeting day where you face and work with your peers in the real world (sadly I’m in Burlington now… so no more town meeting).
i also saw a state welcoming and helpful to small business.
Amazed that there are many coops and farmer’s markets in even the smallest of towns. And people actually cared about where their food comes from.
So many small businesses – tech, crafts, builders, artists, etc.
So while the day to day life of my family and business can be stressful, and I initially took a fairly good hit to the money I was making elsewhere, whenever I leave and come back and pass one of those signs on the highway or land at BTV, or cross the ferry over from NY – there is a huge relief, a weight of sorts off my shoulders that seems to lift when I realize I am home.
VT is like no other place. And the fact that many people still consider ‘Freedom and Unity’ a driving principle, and give a shit about their town, their community, their land, their food, and the education of their kids – and are willing to put their money where their mouths are… is a very welcoming and refreshing thing.
Randy Brock – you seem to have done OK by the state of VT. Why such a Debbie Downer?
Our children have been leaving since the collapse of the wool market in the mid 19th century. Most rural areas have the same problem. Try again, Randy