Candidates for statewide office showed their stuff Wednesday afternoon during the first cattle call of the general election season.
At a policy forum hosted by Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility at Burlington’s Main Street Landing, all but a handful of candidates set to appear on November’s ballot showed up to deliver three-minute elevator pitches and answer a few questions each. (Okay, that’s a long elevator ride.)
While a couple of the state’s top elected officials skipped the event — Gov. Peter Shumlin and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch were at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders was in New York City taping Moyers and Company — most everybody else attended. That gave the sparse crowd of just 40 to 50 people, including candidates and their staff, a helpful sneak preview of campaign themes to come.
Here are seven things we noticed during the two-hour forum:
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Doesn’t Don Schramm have anything better to do? The Progressive Party’s only accomplishment is producing more Peter Diamondstones.
Paul, It’s unfortunate that Hoffer’s speech bored you, but this is a campaign for state auditor. If demonstrating competence and knowledge is boring, than perhaps you should convince Tom Salmon to stick around. Wasting money on weight loss programs and drunk driving is so comical.
Bloggers should use pseudonyms because, since he’s been blogging, I now read Heintz’s stories with skepticism.