While Republicans have struggled to get traction on school choice measures in Montpelier, we are starting to see success for our principles working themselves out on the local level. Elizabeth Cady ran for school board in the town of Essex and won running on a platform of supporting school choice.
What do the three states with the highest COVID-19 cases per capita over the last week have in common? None of them are governed by Republicans. What do the three states with the lowest unemployment rates have in common? None of them are governed by Democrats.
The Vermont Republican Party calls on all legislators of all parties to formally and loudly reject this proposal. At our most recent State Committee Meeting a resolution opposing this new tax was passed unanimously.
Turning Point USA media figure Isabel Brown appeared at the Capitol Plaza on Thursday evening and spoke to young Vermonters about how to stand up to aggressive tactics coming from the political left.
Conservatives must lead Vermont in initiatives supporting regenerative agriculture and small, local farms. This is an imperative to benefit Vermont’s economy, craft a sensible environmental policy to present to voters, and expose the multiple problems with progressive “initiatives” in renewable energy.
There have been public calls for him to leave the party he’s belonged to his whole political life. And the man elected senator, lieutenant governor, and governor as a Republican seems to be thinking about it.
The chair of the Vermont Republican Party says she will not resign or sign a resolution calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump, but instead will remain aligned with the almost 113,000 Vermont voters who cast ballots for the former president.
Gov. Phil Scott recently attacked Vermont GOP leadership for “continu[ing] with what I perceive as white supremacy dominating, racial inequity, and so forth.” That leadership’s sole offense? Refusing to endorse the governor’s call for the president’s resignation. This impugns all Vermont Trump supporters as white supremacists.
The current Democratic/Progressive supermajority in both chambers of the Legislature means they can do pretty much what they want with no checks and balances and no reason to compromise. This is a bad dynamic for a couple of reasons.
As reported on social media by several Vermont Republican candidates, the Vermont Republican Party this weekend approved a statement in opposition to racism.
Veterans of decades of political campaigns stood side by side young women and teenagers wishing to build on their progress at the VT GOP Suffrage Centennial Saturday Sept. 12. Vermont Republican Party Chair Deb Billado told them, “We’ve come a long way, baby, but we have a lot to do.”
In 12 states, more than half of state legislative seats are guaranteed to one of the two major parties in the 2020 elections, according to Ballotpedia’s 10th Annual State Legislative Competitiveness Report.