If you look at the down ticket races this year attention has varied. For most of the summer it was the AG's race that grabbed everybody's attention, and for the last few weeks it's been the Beth Pearce/Wendy Wilton race for Treasurer.
Another important contest, though, is the race for Auditor of Accounts. Vermont voters have a choice between a lifelong politician and a policy professional. Doug Hoffer may not know every skeleton in every closet in the State House, or the names of every Republican and Democratic Town Chair, but he knows how to do the work of the Auditor's office, and to do it professionally and without any political bias.
Doug has a new campaign video out, and it's worth a look:
Hoffer for Auditor “Whiteboard” from Hoffer for Aditor on Vimeo.
Simple, unique, catchy, and hits all the right messages.
It’s the first one I’ve actually liked this year.
that everything that the Rutland paper said today about the campaign qualifications of Beth, could have very well have been said about Doug. True, Vince has not been the windbag that Wilton is, but frankly no one has ever identified him as a numbers guy either.
We have two eminently qualified candidates for “down ticket” offices who want nothing more than to serve Vermonters. No political agenda, no drama, no steppingstone…..
How can we go wrong??? Well, there is that rampant money thing…. maybe we are smart enough to see beyond the fluff and stuff…. maybe….(hopefully??)