Here’s a compilation of the ST/SW gubernatorial positions compiled in order.
Anyone care to opined on who gave the best answer?
Not necessarily the rightness of the answer but what they did with the question.
Anyone jonesing for election results?
Anyone know where to follow the results?
Anyone have a good link to the vote counting office (Deb’s job right?) ?
Here’s the last Shumlin clip uncut unbossed and unmuted, including the ST/SW answer (and inexplicably the scandalous outro got through) but he also has a fun time dissecting the Dougie/Dubie budget.
(promoted for the usual reasons – promoted by JDRyan)
Donny Osman has posted some strong work here at GMD recently and also attended the GMD/VDB Hamburger Summit earlier this summer. He is running for Washington County State Senator, so if you live there, look for him on the ballot. We began by talking about the Hamburger Summit, and the experience of running for office. Two things are immediately clear in this clip: he enjoys participating in the blogosphere and is a great storyteller. His recounting of the experience of phoning 3000 voters here is indicative of his ability to communicate and his sense of humor.
Then we moved on to some of the substance in his GMD diaries. Many Children Left Behind is a great argument for universal Pre-K. In Are you a tax-and-spend liberal?, Donny takes on the common stereotype of the liberal throwing money at problems. The combination of compassion, knowledge of the issues and an ability to challenge prevailing assumptions are all evident in this discussion.
Donny is a former State Rep who has served on a number of boards, including Washington County Mental Health, Central Vermont Community Partnership, Head Start Policy Council as well as the boards of Vermont State Colleges, the Vermont Arts Council, Twin Valley Seniors, and the People’s Health and Wellness Clinic. This background gives him both the depth and breadth to understand the issues facing Vermonters.
(The “muting”/copyright issue here is troublesome, and this interview makes for a good case-in-point. – promoted by odum)
Hi All I just posted the very final last Gubernatorial candidate clip and was very proud of myself for getting it up before the Primary. Here it is but don’t bother watching, because the audio has been disabled:
The Culprit apparently is not YouTube but WMG (Warner Music Group), so I can lay any conspiracy theories about YouTube/Google muting Pete Shumlin to rest!
So here is some background I learned from Wikipedia:
In December 2008, negotiations between WMG and YouTube broke down.[42] As a result, Warner Music Group has continuously blocked or muted videos on YouTube that feature music recordings belonging to its labels or to its publishing arm, Warner/Chappell Music, citing copyright infringement. Although the majority of the blocked videos are not official content of WMG, they include WMG recordings in a minor way normally covered by Fair Use.
So Youtube has a dispute form and here is my submission:
2. This video uses copyrighted material in a manner that does not require approval of the copyright holder. It is a fair use under copyright law.
I am using 40 seconds of audio from 2001: A space Oddyssey backed with a Beck song (with my own video and graphics) as an outro, and you muted the whole interview with VT gubernatorial candidate Pete Shumlin. The primary is Tuesday, and I have given all of the Democratic candidates a non-commercial forum to discuss their positions. Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
Statement of Good Faith
I have a good faith belief that the material was disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification, and that I am not intentionally abusing this dispute process.
I will try to get the offending audio removed and re-uploaded by Primary Day, but I was hoping to get up the Donny Osman clip up by then too. I guess I’m glad it’s a rainy day, I have some work to do here. Maybe the audio will return after they consider the dispute claim.
“I am the only person running for governor who has sponsored every single single payer bill that’s ever been introduced as long as I’ve been in the legislature.” I know there was a recent dust-up concerning Shumlin’s claims about his support for single payer legislation, but I think the way he speaks his position here, he is on solid ground. And this interview predates the controversy (July 9), so he was not correcting the record in his statement. Enjoy listening to Pete most directly call out the insurance industry as he explains the politics and policy behind S. 88.
In underlining the value of the progressive blogosphere in this governor’s race, Shumlin breaks down some of the math. In a five-way primary, he posits 50-70 thousand voters, and the winner will probably only need 15-20 thousand votes. We’ll see how those numbers hold up; I still can’t tell if this is going to be a “independents and repubs join in too” primary due to the quality of the field, or if it is going to be very much an “only engaged Democrats show up” primary due to its spot on the calendar. We’ll know soon, but Pete’s larger point is that communities like the one represented here at GMD could have an outsized impact.
Pete closes out this clip with a compelling compare and contrast of the two sessions of this past biennium.
This interview with Peter Shumlin wraps up VTblogosphereTV’s time with our Democratic gubernatorial contenders. The strength of the field is amazing and each candidate brings qualities that would certainly serve us well at the helm. What was clear to me in interviewing Peter Shumlin is that he is rather quiet with his words, but the words themselves pack a punch. This combination adds to the sense that Pete Shumlin can get things done, that he is a man of action. Having a governor who makes progressive change happen could take some getting used to.
Whether he calls the weather a “climate change heat wave” or discusses the unprecedented unanimity he is finding among Vermonters in defining our problem right now as a state, Pete has a way of conveying a compelling sense of urgency to the issues facing us. To address that pervasive sense of economic insecurity we are experiencing, Pete shares his Vision for Vermont plan. He introduces the plan by contrasting his autobiography with the present lack of opportunity right now for young people.
He discusses renewable energy jobs in the context of getting off our addiction to oil, so that the concrete goal of job creation is connected to a larger purpose that defines our future. His goals for telecom infrastructure, a single payer health care system, and early childhood education similarly are presented as necessities. The future is very much ours to make and the path forward is clear. He even presents something as unsexy as reforming our tax structure as a shedding of the past. Understanding how the economy now works in the 21st century will be key to improving our jobs outlook and keeping us at the forefront of progressive change. In Pete Shumlin’s Vision, those two goals are inextricably linked.
Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3.
[Note: No endorsement implied. Just continuing the VTblogosphereTV tradition of showcasing the qualities of the guest.]
The third and final clip of the Bartlett interview begins with a discussion of Susan’s idea for an Office of Innovation and Intellectual Property to help innovators bring their ideas to fruition. She rightly notes that Vermonters have a long tradition of doing things in new and different ways, and that supporting innovators as they turn their ideas into products will improve both our quality of life and our economic base.
Then we turn to more controversial matters. Susan bucked the trend with her response. She nicely ties in her answer to the earlier discussion of innovation. Gadgets and creatures and how they are all blended together with real human actors represent ground-breaking creativity, and that is the draw for her. Having a governor who can articulate a vision for the future could take some getting used to.
To close, Susan shares just how busy this campaign season has been and we end with a reminder that August 24 is Primary Day!
Here’s the 2nd clip of the Susan Bartlett interview. Summertime and the living is busy, and I’ve been lagging on getting these posts up. So Susan is enjoying an extended spotlight. I will post the last clip next week if anyone’s keeping score at home at this point.
The clip opens with Susan’s confidence that we will achieve universal health care coverage in this state. In taking the internet pledge, she makes the great point that negative campaigning tends not to work in Vermont.
A review of the legislative session follows. Dealing with the deficit, restructuring the judiciary, and closing Vermont Yankee were all major accomplishments. In terms of energy, she explains how we will be better off changing our energy mix and focussing on efficiency. And on a similar note of optimism, her assessment of our budget woes is that ultimately our troubles will move us towards outcomes-based government restructuring, which will improve services.
When I booked Susan Bartlett onto VTblogosphereTV last winter, we had no idea that the date we picked would fall on the Legislature’s last week to figure out the budget. Needless to say, as Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Susan could not make that date, but I worked with her campaign manager John Bauer to reschedule. The later date worked better anyway, since with the budget ironed out we could speak with some finality.
Susan has a knack for creating a sense of comfort. When I asked her before the interview what issues she wanted to highlight, she asked me what my coworkers were talking about at my job. Her interest in people’s concerns is genuine, and she sounds more like a neighbor than a politician. I never got the sense that she was trying to finesse an issue. Having a governor who does not seek political advantage at every opportunity could take some getting used to.
In this clip she discusses our earlier primary date (August 24), the goodwill among all of the 5 Democratic candidates, the budget process in hard times, and how the internet has made us all less dependent on traditional media in getting to know the candidates. She closes with words that nicely capture Vermont as a special state of mind.
Stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3.
[Note: No endorsement implied. Just continuing the VTblogosphereTV tradition of showcasing the qualities of the guest.]
Recently, we’ve seen Deb Markowitz effectively position herself as defending Vermont’s good name from Brian Dubie. With both the Vermont Seal of Quality issue and the New York Times ad, Deb has shown how to turn Republican VT-is-anti-business rhetoric against itself.
In clip two she discussed the Douglas administration’s failure to uphold the meaning of the Vermont Seal of Quality and Dubie’s subsequent flip-flop. More than any charges of flip-flopping though, I think the narrative that resonates is that Brian Dubie is ideologically predisposed to dismiss the positives that make Vermont such a unique state of mind. His failure results in an attack on our quality of life that also fundamentally misunderstands our strengths in the larger marketplace.
And here in clip three, she shares her thoughts on Challenges for Change and the Star Trek/Star Wars question.
We shot in mid-April, but I think the Challenges for Change discussion is still timely. She has a great time explaining her astonishment over Douglas now discovering the notion of outcomes-based reform in his waning months of service.
And though she comes down clearly in the Star Trek camp, she does believe it to be the wrong question. For her, a more inclusive question, one that is not so reflective of the blogger geek guy demographic, is Harry Potter or Lord of the RIngs.
As I haven’t been much of a moviegoer this past decade, I can not knowledgeably speak to her suggestion. The suggestion does give me enough pause though to conduct a poll….
Here’s Part 2 of Deb Markowitz’s interview on VTblogosphereTV. In this clip, she clarifies the many roles of the Secretary of State’s office and explains its scope. It’s easy to be confused about the nature of the job, given that the Secretary of State on the federal level deals with foreign policy and state level Secretary of States only seem to gain notoriety when some election sketchiness rears its head (see Bush, George W.: Florida 2000, Ohio 2004).
Sure there’s policing elections, but business licensure, professional standards, consumer protection, open government decisions, and citizen involvement all fall under the Secretary of State’s purview. That means Deb has had responsibility for some major functions of state government for the past 12 years. She’s challenged Douglas on government secrecy and displays more energy and enthusiasm for the work of government in this interview than I have seen from Douglas in the past eight years.
The clip rounds out with a discussion of a couple of issues Deb has highlighted in blog posts– a green zone for Windham County and the Douglas Administration’s evisceration of the Vermont Seal of Quality. Particularly on the last issue, she gives a great sense of how she would take apart Brian Dubie without a hint of animosity. Very promising!
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