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Posts tagged as “Vermont”
Two Progressive Party state representatives on Vermont Public Radio
By Ross Levin on April 1, 2010 8:24 AM
Representatives Sandy Haas and David Zuckerman, who were elected as Progressives and caucus with the Progressive Party in the state legislature, were interviewed on Vermont Public Radio. …
VTdigger.org profiles executive director of Vermont Progressive Party
By Ross Levin on March 14, 2010 9:32 PM
From VTdigger.org:
The 40-year-old [Morgan] doesn’t come across as a politician of any stripe; he is a soft-spoken spokesman for the third major party in Vermont, and he has the unenviable task of fielding questions on the touchy issue of whether the Progressives are election spoilers rather than a “keep’em honest” corrective to Democratic candidates who are unwilling to take strong positions on issues that matter to the Progressives.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): ‘One year later, the White House gets it’
By Ross Levin on March 10, 2010 10:52 PM
Bernie Sanders is an independent US Senator who is closely associated with the Vermont Progressive Party. He caucuses with the Democrats in Congress. From The Raw Story:
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VTDigger.org: Progressive Party ‘is in serious condition’
By Ross Levin on March 6, 2010 11:45 PM
After some pretty tough losses at the polls in local Burlington elections – the geographical base for the Vermont Progressive Party – VTDigger.org published a piece about the hard times the party is currently facing.…
Pro-Secession Party Formed for Vermont
By Jake_Witmer on January 14, 2010 4:46 PM
A group in Vermont has formed the Vermont Independence Day Party, which believes that Vermont should secede from the United States. It plans to place nominees on the 2010 ballot for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and 7 State Senate seats.…
State Rep. Sandy Haas: ‘Vermont Can Still Lead on Healthcare’
By Ross Levin on January 2, 2010 12:53 PM
Vermont Progressive Party State Representative Sandy Haas posted the following at the Prog Blog:
In his December 16 St. Albans Messenger editorial, Emerson Lynn asserted that the Vermont legislature should not “waste time” talking about health care reform.…
New England: independents and libertarians rising
By on December 27, 2009 4:04 PM
Thomas Simmons comments at The Concord Monitor
In 2010, in New England, a vote for a third party is not a wasted vote; in fact, it is the direction that many Independents and dissatisfued Republicans and Democrats are heading.
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Independent Senator Bernie Sanders denied single payer, promotes clinics
By Ross Levin on December 22, 2009 8:19 PM
Even though Vermont’s independent Senator Bernie Sanders was forced to withdraw his amendment for a national single payer system recently, he has managed to put language into the health care bill that would allocate somewhere between $10 billion and $14 billion for thousands of primary care clinics around the country. …