Posted on 11/15/2021 4:06:39 AM PST by cotton1706
Sen. Patrick Lahey is holding a press conference on Monday morning in the Vermont statehouse, heightening speculation about his looming potential retirement. Leahy, the longest serving Democrat in the Senate, is up for reelection next fall. Leahy stepping back would open up a new likely Democratic seat, raising the question of whether Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will endorse the state’s lone congressional representative, Peter Welch, or allow an open primary to play out.
Welch, a Democrat, is known to be planning a run to replace Leahy if and when he retires. If Sanders endorses Welch, he functionally forecloses any challenge from the left. State Rep. Tanya Vyhovsky is also contemplating a run for Senate if Leahy steps down but told The Intercept she won’t do so if Sanders gets behind Welch. “I don’t want to lose any capacity I have [in the state legislature] in a race that’s unwinnable,” she said. “That is a big piece of this — if Bernie is going to endorse Peter there’s not much point doing it.”
Vyhovsky broadly shares Sanders’s politics and was endorsed by him the previous two cycles. Meanwhile, Welch and Sanders are much closer personally than they are politically. If Sanders does freeze the field by endorsing Welch, it would come out of personal loyalty rather than as a way to advance his political revolution. His penchant for such loyalty was on display during the presidential campaign, when he repeatedly resisted efforts by advisers to get him to go on the attack against Joe Biden. “Joe is a friend,” he would often say.
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Life long politician and what 105? He’s done his part in helping to destroy all that is good about America. Time to settle down and relax. Enjoy the rotted fruit of his labor. SOB communist
Where they say “likely Democrat” probably translates into “toss-up”, in 2022, as things look now. And pretty much every other race has shifted on notch to the right (obviously assuming reasonably fair elections).
Amazing they grow these types of politicians in a state that has had unlicensed carry for decades.
Vermont is lovely.
White people can and do disagree with each other about political and economic affairs without destroying the places they live.
I thought this idiot was already dead.
Yes.
Re: race - It’s the unspoken comment and awkward data point for many.
There’s been 7 homicides (shootings /stabbings) in the city of Rochester, NY in 3 days. Talked to a family member who still lives in that area, and she said there’s more and more of her friends that just avoid the city altogether. Race is very much a part of those homicides. State bail reform a few years ago has had a major impact in the types and amount of crime in that state.
My Dad’s whole family settled in Rochester when they arrived from Germany in the 1850s.
They were prosperous businessmen, founded churches, raised families. In 1910, the Sunday Schools still taught in German.
The last Rochester relative died in her home on Brightford Heights at age 100 a few years ago.
What has happened there has happened all over America.
Leahy is 81 y/o and Sanders is 79 y/o yet not a complaint from the young people who slavishly for for Ds. We’re a long way away from the 1960s when young people said, “don’t trust anyone over thirty”
Yup, the drive south on 91 is like viewing Norman Rockwell’s America in many sections.
This reminds me of the Cabbott purple package special reserve cheddar. Tough to get other than local.
Vermont is very rural and very white. It also used to be the safest Republican state in the country.
Can someone explain how it became the only state sending an open socialist to the Senate?
A lot of white people are socialists. Think Norway.
It only becomes complicated when socialism is also tribal.
Get off the interstate and it’s even better.
That depends on what you mean by destroying. If you mean the scenic beauty, that’s still basically there but less and less as they erect more and more solar and wind farms. As to the economy, good jobs, taxation, cost of energy, poverty and the human cost of drug addiction that goes with it, not so much.
Look at Bernie’s lineage, he’s an import. The 60s and 70s brought a lot of elitist theoretical “deep thinkers” (read communist hippies) to VT. lots of flower children from Columbia University and Cambridge Massachusetts to test their theories of how the “new world order” should function. VT was an easy mark as residents less concerned about politics and more concerned about the struggles of the harsh life in VT allowed the changes to slip by unnoticed until it was too late.
Since that time VT has seen an influx of as we call them “trustafarians”. Ne’re do well offspring of rich liberal parents. These non-working spoiled offspring have plenty of time to meddle in politics as they are comfortable and bored. Vermont’s contemporary politics are not the politics of native Vermonters but of those from outside.
Damn Yankees.
Replacing Leahy with Welch is like replacing a nonagenarian with an octogenarian.
Doesn’t Vermont have any young people interested in politics?
I was in Vermont for the weekend, first visit. It is pretty and orderly. Black Lives Matter is carefully painted down the middle of Main Street in Burlington. There are hardly any people, maybe 600,000 or so in the whole state? And they get two far leftist senators. I wonder why Vermont Voters favor communism? And why favor life-long elected reps. 48 years in elected office is crazy.
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