I live in Addison County near scores of summer camps on the lake. Over the last fifteen years they’ve doubled and tripled in value, now being worth more than their owner’s full time residences. Any attempt to make this sound nefarious is merely an excuse by those making the charge to make the camp’s owners look bad, and is a deceitful use of the facts. These camps are not some “privilege of the millionaire class,” but the sort of things that many regular Vermonters own. To make it seem otherwise is both disingenuous and dirty pool, saying more about the person making the charge than anyone who happens to own one.
Knowyourass, you realize that Peter personally HATED Bernie, right? Try knowing your facts instead, man.
7Days real coverage of politics died with the passing of the late, great Peter Freyne, so this is just an overdue burial of the corpse.
This is news? Tell us something we dont know... and just about everybody in Vermont (with the exception of the quite young and the oblivious) already knew all of this. My, how the standards of journalism have fallen at Seven Days. Peter Freyne, who fully covered all this at the time, must be spinning in his grave. Shame on you Paula and Pam.
I guess South Burlington should have thought of things like that before they succeeded from Burlington. Sorry, SoBummers, you dont get a say in what Burlington decides to do, because you chose to give up your say in the affairs of Burlington. You should have thought to buy the airport, too, back then, but you were too busy whipping around Confederate flags and making your high schools mascot a traitorous Confederate Army colonel. The people of South Burlington have no one else but themselves to blame for this. Tough nuggets, Rebels.
Creepy...
Re: “Bernie Sanders Said 'Thousands' of Vermonters Own Summer Homes. Do They?”
I guess all this about Bernie actually being in the one percent makes him a traitor to his class, just like the greatest president of the twentieth century, FDR. The twenty-first century awaits...