Thursday was a day that ends with ‘y’ — and you know what that means! Republican state treasurer candidate Wendy Wilton was busy making outrageous claims she couldn’t quite prove.
To be fair, the Rutland City treasurer never actually makes accusations. She just suggests things. Like, real nutty things.
The latest? That the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank put the city of Rutland on its internal “watch list” in June to screw with Wilton’s campaign for state treasurer.
Quite improbably, the bond bank became a bit of a political football earlier this week when Wilton’s opponent, State Treasurer Beth Pearce, noted in a debate on WDEV’s The Mark Johnson Show that — unbeknownst to Wilton — Rutland had recently earned a place on the bank’s “watch list” due to concerns about its unfunded pension liability. Pearce’s fellow Democrat, Gov. Peter Shumlin, followed suit Wednesday when asked at a Burlington Free Press debate about the treasurer’s race — bashing Wilton for Rutland’s inclusion on the list.
That didn’t sit well with the Rutland Republican.
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