VT Dem Governor candidate: Single payer health care, release non-violent offenders

[garybeck]

Republican Brian Dubie and Democrat Peter Shumlin stood shoulder-to-shoulder in their first one-on-one debate of the fall gubernatorial campaign.

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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_embedded

http://blogs.burlingtonfreepress.com/politics/2010/09/13/brian-dubie-and-peter-shumlin-meet-for-first-debate-in-the-2010-gubernatorial-campaign/

[mdmc]

1. God bless him

:)

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Vermont certainly is one of our most progressive states.

I'll be watching this closely, live not far from the VT border. :)

[garybeck]

4. yeah but we've had a republican governor for a long time now...

every since dean left...

[Rhiannon12866]

6. You also had a Republican governor back in the '80s

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(

[TheWraith]

3. I wish I lived in Vermont.

After the global warming hits, it'll be the perfect state. :D

[garybeck]

5. you're right, the weather here now is less than perfect. i cringe when I think

what's coming in the next few months. yuk.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. I spent my summers in Vermont when I was a kid.

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. :(

[garybeck]

8. you must have been here during the heat wave

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.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. It was never hot when I was at camp.

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(

[TheKentuckian]

9. Nice to hear of common sense allowed to operate at a high level

Go, Peter, Go!