Remember Peter Hirschfeld? He’s that guy from the New York Post, I mean, National Enquirer, I mean, Vermont Press Bureau, who broke a story last week about Gov. Peter Shumlin’s land dealings in East Montpelier.
Well, Hirschfeld has an interesting follow-up in today’s Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times Argus about another complex land deal the gov’s engaged in next door to his East Montpelier cabin.
While the whole story is behind the Herald’s and the T-A’s paywall, you can read the first half of it for free here on the Press Bureau’s blog. You could also drive on down to the store and buy yourself a copy, which you can’t quite do with VTDigger.org.
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I cannot understand why Peter Hirschfeld chose to drag the landowner’s personal issues through the mud here. Of what possible news interest is that?
Just because he dug it doesn’t mean he should fling it.
Actually, Peter offered up that info… you know to seem benevolent.
Come on, how is it NOT fair game to look into a gov-to-be’s business affairs and finances? Since campaign promises are not exactly binding, this helps give the voter a fighting chance to predict the behavior of a candidate judging by, among other things, his class status. In Shumlin’s case, we have a plutocrat whom Newcomb and Danziger ought to be drawing with a top hat and monocle like the trademark Monopoly icon. But oddly, neither they nor other 99% actors like the Vermont Workers Center or the mainstream environmental groups or the Progressive fricking Party even seem to notice. They all believe in his commitment to single payer and closing Yankee so let’s hope for all our sakes that he comes through on those. Meanwhile, let’s just enjoy the mental cartoon of Peter, Earl of East Montpelier, riding to the hounds on his new estate.