Letter to the Editor:
I recently found a cheery harvest guide from the Vermont Department of Agriculture tucked into a local newspaper. And while I’m more than willing to see my tax dollars being used to promote Vermont farm products, I was dismayed to see that the publication was not only being used to promote governor-scissors-hand, but was doing it in a way that misrepresents reality. Read the rest of this entry »
Times Argus, July 7, 2008, by Dave Gram (link to article).
MONTPELIER — Cost of a five-pound bag of flour at Mehuron’s Supermarket in Waitsfield in 2005: $1.89. Cost as of June: $2.79.
Cost of a gallon of maple syrup at Kent’s Corner Sugarhouse in Calais in 2005: $36. Cost of a gallon now: $48.
Average cost for a gallon of unleaded gasoline in Vermont in January of 2003, the month Jim Douglas became governor: $1.52. Average cost in June: $3.97.
Affordability as an issue in this year’s gubernatorial race: Priceless. Read the rest of this entry »
Now, the unemployment rate is the highest in 14 years (”State jobless rate highest in 14 years,” June 21) and that is without including IBM’s most recent cuts. It would be disingenuous to suggest that this was all the governor’s fault. Yet, by the governor’s own measurement, not only is he falling short, the record during his tenure is really quite a failure. Read the rest of this entry »
Brattleboro Reformer, July 2, 2008, by Bob Audette (link to article).
BRATTLEBORO — Companies such as Cersosimo’s Brattleboro Kiln Dry and Milling are poised to take advantage of the state’s changing energy priorities, said Anthony Pollina, a Progressive Party candidate for governor from Middlesex.
“We should be investing in companies that have power to share,” he said, adding “We need the infrastructure to make it happen.”
The Rutland Herald, July 1, 2008, by Daniel Barlow (link to article).
MONTPELIER — Gov. James Douglas’ administration on Monday defended nearly $300,000 in merit bonuses given to state officials in the months before it proposed cutting 400 jobs from the state rolls because of the downturn in the economy. Read the rest of this entry »
Rutland Herald, July 1, 2008, by Sharon Nimtz (link to article).
I waxed eloquent about that baby and those peas in a column called “Peas: Paean and Pleasures,” and when he got here he did what babies always do: He did what came naturally, but certainly not what I had envisioned. Read the rest of this entry »
June 30, 2008 Press Statement:
The Douglas Administration is one of missed opportunity and misguided priorities. The Administration is responding to lost jobs and a downturn in the economy by eliminating state jobs while giving “merit” bonuses to administration officials and funding more than a dozen tax-payer funded public relations positions. Read the rest of this entry »
VPR News, June 30, 2008, by John Dillon (link to article).
Montpelier, Vt. — (Host) Progressive Anthony Pollina is attacking incumbent Governor Jim Douglas for cutting the state workforce while at the same time rewarding top officials with bonuses. Read the rest of this entry »
Letter to the Editor:
When running against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan asked, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Now, loyal Republican Gov. James Douglas after six years in office wants yet another term: So it’s appropriate to ask Vermonters: Are you better off now than you were six years ago? Read the rest of this entry »
Times Argus, June 26, 2008, by Peter Hirschfeld (link to article).
MONTPELIER — Progressive gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina says his incumbent rival’s claim to have founded the “Buy Local movement” is tantamount to Al Gore taking credit for inventing the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »
Burlington Free Press, June 26, 2008, by Terri Hallenbeck (link to article).
MONTPELIER — A state Agriculture Agency publication proclaims that the “buy local movement” that Gov. Jim Douglas initiated in 2003 is stronger than ever.
Progressive gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina objects. The buy local movement was started in the 1970s by farmers and activists working with the Northeast Organic Farming Association, Pollina said. Read the rest of this entry »
WCAX News, June 25, 2008, by Kristin Carlson (link to article).
Montpelier, Vermont — The Progressive in the race for Governor says a state publication overstates the record of Gov. Jim Douglas, R-Vermont.
At issue is a line in Vermont Harvest, written by the Agriculture Agency. It says, “initiated by Governor Douglas in 2003, the buy local movement is stronger then ever.” Read the rest of this entry »
June 25, 2008 Press Statement:
Our current governor is taking credit for work done by citizens and others and staking out positions that serve short-term political goals but are not in keeping with his record. A lifelong politician, our Governor recently portrayed himself as the voice of change. As if that was not enough of an image make over, he now wants VT to see him as the initiator of a grassroots movement. Read the rest of this entry »
June 24, 2008 Press Statement:
The firings at IBM are especially painful because IBM workers are not organized and because my opponent has not helped Vermont prepare for shifts in the global and local economy.
An organized workforce would have been better prepared to protect their jobs and negotiate with management. Rumors of the job cuts circulated among workers for weeks, but management denied them until today. Organized workers could at least respond from a position of strength. Read the rest of this entry »
WCAX-TV News Channel 3, June 22, 2008 (link to article).
Montpelier, Vermont — On the heels of Governor Douglas’ statewide campaign kickoff tour, Progressive gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina wrapped up a tour of his own.
Since Pollina formally entered the race three months ago, he says Vermonters have told him they want stricter enforcement of environmental laws, the clean up of Lake Champlain, investment in small, local businesses, an increase in public transportation, the creation of a local food supply and decreasing the state’s dependence on oil. Read the rest of this entry »
Burlington Free Press, June 21, 2008, by Lisa Rathke (link to article).
MONTPELIER — Andrea Stander told Progressive gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina today that she moved to Vermont because of how forward thinking it was. But in the last decade the state has fallen behind on environmental policy and missed opportunities in environmental technology, she said. Read the rest of this entry »
