A key Vermont Republican activist is urging party members to skip voting for Scott Milne and the other declared candidates for the party’s gubernatorial nomination and write in a Libertarian instead.
The activist, Darcie Johnston, who managed Republican nominee Randy Brock’s campaign for governor in 2012, issued a statement saying she hopes people will write in the name of Libertarian Dan Feliciano on the Republican ballot in the Aug. 26 primary.
“I will be working to help him to get write-in votes to be the Republican nominee,” Johnston wrote. “Dan’s focus is on the issues that matter most to Republicans and many Republicans are already supporting him.”
Johnston is a leading critic of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s push for a universal, state-run health care system and the founder of a group devoted to defeating it.
She said Feliciano, 51, a business consultant from Essex Junction who has had health insurance companies among his clients, has the best background for a gubernatorial candidate. He’s vowing to stop the state’s push toward universal health care.
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I’m sure he’d prefer that people vote for him in the general election.