The Scoreboard: This Week's Winners and Losers

Who won and lost the week in Vermont news and politics?

Guns, missiles, fighter jets, free speech, steeples, contractors and… Bernie Sanders.

Here’s the Scoreboard for the week of Friday, October 25:

Winners:

Jack Lindley — The Republican party chairman is on the mend after a very close call. In our book — whether he keeps his leadership post or not — that makes him one serious winner. Runner-up losers: Those plotting to oust Lindley while he’s still in the hospital. Can’t it wait, fellas?

Stealth missions — Remember that whole ICBM-destroying missile defense base proposed for the Vermont National Guard’s Camp Ethan Allen? Yeah, that one. Though the Pentagon’s top brass say they don’t need an East Coast interceptor, the Missile Defense Agency quietly dispatched a five-man team to Jericho last week to check the place out, as the Burlington Free Press‘ Nicole Gaudiano reported Thursday.

Bernie buzz — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) kinda sorta claims he has no interest in running for president. But it was interesting that his campaign staffer, Ben Eisenberg, emailed reporters a link to an In These Times story Thursday in which his boss says, “I haven’t ruled it out.”