Remember how Republican Martha Rainville actually made this a fairly close race in 2006? Those days are now just a foggy memory for the Vermont GOP:
Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., calls himself a proud Democrat, but says he’ll accept the Republican congressional nomination.
Welch says he was surprised to receive enough write-in votes on Republican ballots to secure the nomination of a party that didn’t put up a candidate of its own.
Kossack Kagro X via email: “He should demand the opportunity to debate himself.”
Does this mean that we can now claim anything he votes for in Congress has bipartisan support? 😉
Can we not find a suitable challenger for the republican Governor of VT? There is no excuse for letting any R skate in a state like VT, even if he does have very limited power with our huge majorities in the VT legislature.
What if he loses though? Would Boehner demand that he join the Republican caucus?
as the Republicans do have a healthy number of members in the state house 49R 93D and 8I
I guess they can sense the political winds are against them in Vermont
that Green Mountain Daily, the progressive Vermont blog, doesn’t even have anything on this?? I’d figure they’d have the local flavor, but it’s as if nothing even happened. :-\