Thursday, October 1, 2020

Representative to Congress race VT 2020

Ballot arrived Friday.  Looking through all the candidates.  VPIRG has a list of links to candidates' platforms.  

Peter Becker; Independent.  His website contains several rants: one against "partisan politics", though much of his ire is reserved for Democrats; one that claims COVID-19 only kills the unhealthy; one against the Democrats for instituting the national income tax 100 years ago; and one that claims racism is this election year's "trendy topic".  

Miriam Berry; Republican. Candidate's campaign website appears to be their personal blog.  There is an "Issues" page that only discusses education.  The main page touches on other issues, but only briefly.

Christopher Helali; Communist. Website outlines 3 themes: Peace, Equality, and Socialism. 

Marcia Horne; Independent. Website has a lot of links to various opinions, but there doesn't appear to be any kind of organization to it, so one is left with the impression of a 20-point plan where some of the headings are things like "Interested in the numbers?" and "Actually -- Switzerland is a Democracy".   

Shawn Orr; Independent.  Zero web presence for the campaign.

Jerry Trudell; Independent.  Website is just a bunch of videos with no extended text descriptions.  From the short text, looks like he doesn't like the F-35s.

Peter Welch; Democratic.  Website's "Issues" menu has 14 items to choose from.  I understand that a candidate may want answers to constituent questions about their positions on many different topics, but can a single person really promise to focus on 14 issues in a single two-year term?  Then again, maybe what we're really electing is Peter Welch's ability to hire and manage his staff.

See also: the Secretary of State's race.

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