UPDATED WITH VIDEO: See below, “Who’s He Fooling,” one of three ads Brock is began airing Saturday morning.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Brock will launch his general election television advertising campaign Saturday with a clip of his Democratic opponent, Gov. Peter Shumlin, singing the Beatles.
Brock says his campaign has invested $70,000 in the 10-day ad run, which starts Saturday morning. According to public records obtained at WCAX-TV, Brock will spend $26,671 on 68 spots on the station during that time period. Brock’s campaign says it also plans to go up on WPTZ-TV and Fox44.
Brock says the three ads in rotation, which will focus on the economy and health care, “are designed to show the contrast between my position and those of Gov. Shumlin.”
He also confirmed that one of the ads will feature the governor singing the Beatles’ classic, “Here Comes the Sun.” The footage presumably comes from Shumlin’s impromptu a capella performance of the song during the Burlington Business Association’s annual dinner in April at the Hilton.
“I hope they’ll be kind of fun and enjoyable,” Brock says.
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“Kids graduate and they leave Vermont” Newsflash, as if he didn’t know it: every state uses the same argument. Get a clue, or better yet, fade away in the NEK.
And John Lennon is rolling over in his grave…
Whoa, there, Lassy. I think the statistics are that Vermont kids with a future leave their home state at a much higher proportion than kids in other states. Why? Because there are NO BUSINESSES in Vermont and NO JOBS. Why? Because in Vermont we absolutely hate, despise, and detest business and are actively hostile to it. The only people who are making it in Vermont are some doctors, lawyers, and a handful of businesses that pay 30 pieces of silver to Shumlin and are politically favored, like wind power developers. All other businesses can go F themselves. Brock is correct on this one.
You’d think in that ramble you would have cited the statistics you say back up Brock’s assertion. If vermonts unemployment rate wasn’t three points lower than the national average you and Brock might have an argument.
I graduated from UVM in 2006. My advisor, work study supervisor, and professors all tried to help me find a job. I applied to countless jobs in Chittenden county, a few with the state, and eventually wound up working in Lebanon, New Hampshire, about four road miles from the Vermont border. About half my coworkers are Vermont residents, and quite a few went to college in Vermont. Of all the causes Gov. Shumlin has tried to harness for his image, often generating more backlash than support because of his awful way with words, jobs don’t seem to be one of them.
Do a google search of “Why are young people leaving (fill in the state of your choice) and you’ll be hard pressed to find a state that isn’t complaining about young people leaving. It’s the party line “Complain about kids leaving and say it’s because of the liberal government”. Good lord, do you want to live in a place where no one is from someplace else?
Massachusetts has no shortage of successful young people, and its liberal government is still interested in providing opportunities for the young people there. Shumlin’s weakness is not that he is liberal but that he is too busy chasing cameras and putting his foot in his mouth to be an effective leader.
Actually, if you google “why are young people leaving Massachusetts” you’ll find any number of articles on the subject. I’m no fan of Shumlin either but the “young people exodus” canard is lame and pretty lazy. You’re obviously a partisan. You and Brock should get a clue and then an issue, and you better hurry. Or sit around and call him names, whichevs.
Actually, my political ideals align more with Shumlin’s platform than Brock’s. Shumlin just doesn’t present them very well. From Team Kale where he politicized someone’s private legal battle, to telling the state police to “Look the Other Way,” to telling all of us that he ran outside naked to rescue birdseed from a bear, he just doesn’t do his party or state any favors.
He got single payer health care passed, and for that I salute him. I hope and pray for its success. Mitt Romney got that passed too, but I won’t vote for him either.
Really, for the idiotic reasons you mentioned in the first paragraph you won’t vote for him? You realize that Brock would do away with single payer, right? You’re pretty difficult to take seriously.
He would do away with single payer if he could get it through the legislature. He’s a centrist, that’s not a bad thing.
Oh for god’s sake, Lassy, stop arguing for argument’s sake. The unemployment rate has nothing to do with whether there are jobs. You know what the unemployment rate is on the Moon? Zero. There is no unemployment on the Moon — and there are no jobs, either. You know damn well that there are few job opportunities for college educated kids in Vermont. Because there are no employers. We all know it. That’s why Vermont is becoming the proportionally oldest population in the country. Shall we compare job opportunities for college graduates between, say, Mass. and Vermont? Really? Do you want to go there? Mass. may have a higher unemployment rate, but you have a much greater chance of getting a job in Mass. than you do here — decent or otherwise. We wouldn’t have to sacrifice Vermont’s environmental values in order to have business growth. But we would have to abandon our paranoid, ill-informed hostility to all things business. We would have to take down the signs at Vermont’s borders that say, “Business, We Hate You. Do Not Enter.” We have too many restaurants and coffee shops. Let’s actually make something here.
speaking of arguing for arguments sake…..the fact is, Vermont’s unemployment rate is among the lowest in the nation. If you have an opinion about that, then that’s your opinion. If you’ve got some facts, then state them.
“The total number of 20- to 34-year-olds in Vermont has shrunk by 19 percent since 1990.” NYTimes article
“The median age of the work force was 42.3, the highest in the nation.” US Census
Ages 20-29 make up 52.6% of the food service workforce. (recent BC study)
If you want some facts they are there, young people are leaving this state, making the population and workforce older, because they do not want to be farmers or waiters all their lives in this business forsaken state that punishes private business and rewards the Bittersdorfs.
Is the unemployment rate low? Sure, it’s seasonally adjusted to account for the seasonal jobs and is made lower by the fact that a significant chunk of the workforce has left.