Bruce Lisman — the man, the myth, the legend — is coming to a television screen near you.
The retired Wall Street executive and dabbler in Vermont politics features prominently in a new TV ad his political advocacy group, Campaign for Vermont, plans to air in advance of this winter’s legislative session.
In a press release announcing the ad, Lisman promises that future ads “will focus on specific reforms for which we will be advocating” next year, “like our detailed proposals to transform state government with transparency, establish ethics laws for elected officials and build the best education system in the world.”
But this one’s totally devoid of specifics. Just a lot of chatter about making Vermont affordable, creating jobs and helping families become more secure.
“No one calls for brighter colors or cuter puppies or offers to teach the world to sing in harmony,” the Burlington Free Press‘ Terri Hallenbeck notes, “but you get the drift.”
Here’s what it looks like:
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As already mentioned within a comment post of mine posted to Terri Hallenbeck’s related blog post on the subject posted to vt.Buzz, …
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Unless he is drawing upon his own riches for these campaigns of his, it would appear that Bruce Lisman certainly loves to burn through other people’s money. Either way, he sure knows how to waste er, spend plenty of money and then not have much to show for it afterwards. Not too mention about how much he seems to enjoy being on TV as well as radio and also in the print media any chance he gets, having his name in the news as often as he can manage in order to gain the attention of the media and public. It definitely sounds like he is once again possibly exploring a run for something in terms of a political office or seat. Whatever that might be is of course anyone’s guess. If he is not planning on running for some political office or seat however; then, other than creating the potential risk of reminding us that he should not be taken seriously, what is his point? Whatever the case might in fact be, one is left to wonder whether “Vague†is his middle name? And, another thing, as both Governor Peter Shumlin and his administration as well as Bruce Lisman and his group, among plenty of others, keep on illustrating through their repeated rhetoric and hypocrisy concerning these and related matters; it is one thing to keep calling for greater transparency, it is yet another thing altogether to put it into practice.
Oh, I thought you were talking about Peter Shumlin.
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Ha!
Yeah, I can understand how that could be true, too much so (regarding the first sentence of your comment; and, possibly even the second as well).
🙂
I think Lisman has done a lot to try and point out some of the things government needs to work on and move towards, and has set out some admirable ideals and goals (progress ahead of partisanship for example). However, that seems to be the end game. Sure informing people of a groups mission plan is important, but eventually there has to be a next step. Otherwise it’s simply talk, and that goes no where.
There really needs to be a complete and total change in our government. Extreme partisanship has stagnated every aspect of our lives, and so far partisanship from one side has been combated with finding someone more extreme on the other side. Time to go back to electing moderates who are capable of seeing both sides and then doing what is right for the people, not the government.
The Legislature needs to start trying to fix problems instead of instituting new changes. Education funding, Pensions, the Economy… pick one… why can’t we have a voucher system enabling school choice. Why are pensions so underfunded, are they “too good” or are we spending that money on something else? And is that something else needed? Why can’t we have a balanced budget clause? In this day and age why can’t the public go online and indicate their support or opposition to a bill in public where everyone can see (including their elected officials)? Nope, our legislature is too busy trying to figure out if we should tax soda, let daycare providers unionize, and whether or not to send a dozen useless non-binding resolutions to Obama. It’s really pathetic, and it’s untenable. This government will fail sooner then later if it remains on it’s current path.
Happy talk. Works on dogs, babies -and voters.
Love how you gotta attack a guy for not being a radical liberal. It’s threatening for Vermonters to unplug from the leftist Matrix.