Who won and lost the week in Vermont news and politics?
Pork, towels, scammers, former govs, vets and one lucky reporter.
Here’s the Scoreboard for the week of Friday, August 23:
Winners:
Pork Tornados — Sen. Leahy rolled through Northfield and White River Junction Thursday and left a trail of federal largess in his wake.
Vets, state workers and the state budget — All three dodged a bullet this week when the feds inspected the Vermont Veterans’ Home and gave it a passing grade, sparing it a loss in Medicare and Medicaid funding. Runner-up winner: Sen. Bernie Sanders, who used his perch as Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman to press the feds on funding.
Rosetta Stone — Gov. Peter Shumlin’s gonna have to brush up on his Mandarin before traveling to China next month to sell visas for cash — ahem, I mean, seek overseas investment for job-creating projects in Vermont.
Ted Brady — After 13 years on Sen. Patrick Leahy’s staff, the loyal staffer’s in line for a plum federal patronage post: director of the USDA’s Vermont and New Hampshire rural development office.
Solar City — Rutland will be brighter than Vegas by the time Green Mountain Power’s done with it.
John Dillon — The Vermont Public Radio reporter went canoeing on Mirror Lake and passed it off as work. We’d never try that!
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