By Timothy Page on June 17, 2024• ( 8 Comments )
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By Paul Bean
Since his first term in 2017, Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed 31 bills, more than any other Vermont governor.
The Democratic supermajority in Montpelier – larger than its ever been – has the votes to override if it chooses.
Which makes you wonder…. If Governor Scott really is America’s most popular Governor with an 83% approval rating, why do Vermonters also elect a supermajority that diminishes his veto power?
Some voters say they’re voting ‘independent’ and balanced’ but the effect is the opposite. But if every voter takes this “balanced” approach, the supermajority need not worry about compromise for fear of veto.
This makes the Governor’s legislative power almost null and void. With a two-thirds majority in the State House, the supermajority can override everything he does.
Voters interested in establishing true balance have, to use the governor’s favorite term, “a path forward:’ Know yourcandidates, their goals, and their voting records. Do they always toe the party line? Do they ever go against leadership?
Here’s one really easy way to tell whether or not your representative will buck the supermajority leadership, or not: check VDC Roll Call stories this week to know whether they voted with or against Gov. Scott’s vetoes.
If you want more true balance, then vote accordingly in the upcoming August primary and the general election.
As soon as its available, VDC will publish the roll calls of every veto vote held today.
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Sadly, the obvious needed to be stated.
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He has an 83% approval rating with the Progressive Commiecrats that put him in office because he is soft and malleable, they could override his vetos and get to say we have a popular Republican governor in Vermont. Everyone knows he is not a real Republican but a cousin to Larry Hogan. Scott should be forced out of the Republican Party and be made to run as an independent.
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The other reason he receives so many votes is that his competition has been so Lukewarm that even progressives couldn’t vote for them. He had a man pretending to be a woman, and a dance organizer during the last two elections where the numbers came from to gauge his popularity. He has done nothing to promote republican candidates and signed the first ever gun control laws in Vermont since our founding in the 1700s and he has been on the VT government teat for over 20 years. Not to mention that he and his loyal RINOs all voted for Joe Biden and the destruction of America and peoples finances.
The ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that Covid mandates are unconstitutional and were unconstitutional during the scamdemic, yet our Vermont government went out of its way to potentially harm every man, woman and child by coercing, shaming and threating everyone to get a covid shot. Remember, Safe and Effective. I could go on, but the bottom line is that it is no longer safe or affordable to live here. The trust is gone in almost everything. Blame the media for covering and censoring all things progressive and the government. If you are uninformed it is because of these two reasons.
Since so many people here voter with their feelings instead of hard facts, they deserve all they get for ignoring the real world here in VT, run by out of state grifters and ideologues who came and conquered all of our institutions and ruined a once beautiful place to live and raise a family. Thank a liberal voter, that’s who’s ultimately responsible. You can’t fix stupid!
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i wonder if the eighty percent of vermonters whom the govie wanted to take the covid kill shot still like him/// some times history will come back to remind you of how popular you are not////
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VIP 1:
Please also don’t forget that Phil Scott signed Act 47 exactly five years ago on June 19, codifying into statute that there are zero laws in Vermont which protect preborn babies or their mothers from abortion.His capitulation to the manipulation and lies of Planned Parenthood by signing the wretched H.57 helped embolden the Vermont General Assembly in four legislative sessions, as well as the majority of voters, to overwhelmingly ratify Prop 5/Article 22 under the intentionally deceptive and false moniker of “Reproductive Liberty.”
Another legislative scam at the expense of vulnerable Vermonters.
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Oh, they feel really bad about having to override his veto’s, so bad they want to bring ranked choice voting to Vermont, because they want to help more Republicans get into office.
While non-sense and division run rampant across our state, we just become the more perfect union with the New World Order day by day, doing out best to become the favorite, and only colony of the United Nations in Vermont.
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Truthfully, today’s politics is far removed from politics of old. I admire youthful optimism and attempting to make sense of utter nonsense. I once had the same blind faith in the “system,” until the day I snapped out of that spell of witchcraft.
There used to be a time that deals could be made and concessions agreed upon for the good of the People. Now, deals and concessions are made for the good of personal bank accounts and ascension to bigger seats of power and control. The line of succession and glued keisters in the same seats over the past thirty years speaks volumes does it not? Does it matter who attempts to gain a seat to do the right thing? Many may throw in with good intentions, but somehow those intentions fade away shortly after the first caucus under the Golden Thunder Dome.
If wasn’t for corporate lobbyists, would the outcomes be different? If it wasn’t for party line or die money, would our State fair better? If it wasn’t for the DC pork and Federal welfare system, could our State stand on it’s own GDP and workforce? For a small State, we’ve burned through some serious cash in twenty years and the results are dismal and dangerous. Why are the youth leaving? Duh – there is no future here and they see it way before graduation.
Demand a complete, thorough, independent, neutral third-party audit of all books and selection seasons over the past 10 years to start. Without any transparency or anyone being held to account from top to bottom, voting is a quaint exercise in futility for Vermont. They know the system is rigged. They’re enjoying every moment of it regardless of the pandering platitudes saying they “feel our pain.”
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Ever wonder if this is WHY the Libs elect a Republican governor? So they can feel the thrill of taking his power away, at the cost of their own futures? At least Scott is reasonable enough that they feel like jerks for doing it occasionally.
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