garybeck
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Mon Sep-13-10 11:56 PM
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VT Dem Governor candidate: Single payer health care, release non-violent offenders |
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Edited on Tue Sep-14-10 12:39 AM by garybeck
Republican Brian Dubie and Democrat Peter Shumlin stood shoulder-to-shoulder in their first one-on-one debate of the fall gubernatorial campaign. ........snip............. Shumlin said he would work to establish a single-payer health care system to relieve a burden on government, schools and businesses. He would reduce spending in corrections by releasing more non-violent offenders. On edit: here is Shumlin's ad saying we need to "get the insurance companies out of the picture."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yFUbkVCsZ4&feature=player_embeddedhttp://blogs.burlingtonfreepress.com/politics/2010/09/13/brian-dubie-and-peter-shumlin-meet-for-first-debate-in-the-2010-gubernatorial-campaign/
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Mon Sep-13-10 11:57 PM
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Tue Sep-14-10 12:02 AM
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2. Vermont certainly is one of our most progressive states. |
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I'll be watching this closely, live not far from the VT border. :)
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garybeck
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Tue Sep-14-10 12:04 AM
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4. yeah but we've had a republican governor for a long time now... |
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Tue Sep-14-10 12:15 AM
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6. You also had a Republican governor back in the '80s |
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When my brother was at UVM. However, all of Vermont is more progressive than here in NY-20. I worked on the special election to elect Scott Murphy to Kirsten Gillibrand's vacant congressional seat and it was the closest in all of Congress. He's running for re-election and I fear for November, They sent Boehner up here to support the Republican challenger... x(
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Tue Sep-14-10 12:03 AM
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3. I wish I lived in Vermont. |
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After the global warming hits, it'll be the perfect state. :D
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garybeck
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Tue Sep-14-10 12:05 AM
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5. you're right, the weather here now is less than perfect. i cringe when I think |
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what's coming in the next few months. yuk.
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Tue Sep-14-10 05:50 AM
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7. I spent my summers in Vermont when I was a kid. |
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Went to camp for six summers on Lake Champlain. It was beautiful there, but I never remember it being hot. However, I went back for a reunion two weeks ago and it was unbearably warm... I'm afraid the summers are getting warmer and the winters have never been a picnic. :(
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Tue Sep-14-10 10:47 AM
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8. you must have been here during the heat wave |
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well things are getting warmer everywhere overall, so that's a part of it.
this summer was pretty typical. there's usually a heat wave or two. I don't mind it as long as I have a lake or river to jump into. But the winters... I can do without.
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Tue Sep-14-10 02:52 PM
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10. It was never hot when I was at camp. |
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It's outside of Colchester, right on the lake, and I remember wearing a jacket most of the time. I expected the same weather when I returned, but it was oppressively hot, and naturally we didn't have A/C. I actually sat in my car a few times, LOL. I mentioned climate change to my childhood friends. Amazingly, we all grew up to be liberals... ;)
As for the winters, they are the same here in Northern NY. We're also in snow country. I'm not a skier and I hate winter... x(
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Tue Sep-14-10 11:29 AM
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9. Nice to hear of common sense allowed to operate at a high level |
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