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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is why Vermont should permit/require party registration:
https://vtdigger.org/2018/08/24/republicans-clock-paige-withdraws-five-statewide-races/Republicans on the clock after Paige withdraws from five statewide races
Vermonts Republican party has a week to field five new candidates for statewide offices after H. Brooke Paige submitted requests on Friday to remove himself from all but one of the seats he won in the primaries last week.
Paige, a perennial candidate for political office, withdrew his candidacy for U.S. House, U.S. Senate, attorney general, treasurer and auditor of accounts. He will run for secretary of state against Jim Condos, the Democratic incumbent.
Vermont GOP chair Deb Billado said on Thursday that the party would meet next week to discuss which candidates to put forward. It has seven days to submit new names to the secretary of states office. She declined to provide the names of those being considered.
Paige has said since the primary that he would recommend Dan Feliciano, a libertarian candidate in the 2014 gubernatorial election, for the race against Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Feliciano has not responded to multiple calls seeking comment.
As you are aware, Paige wrote in each of his five letters to Condos, my participation in the 2018 Republican Primary election was intended to preserve the ballot positions for Republican candidates in the General Election and prevent the Democrats from crossing-over on primary day and voting for the published Democrat as a write-in on the Republican primary ballot, a practice they have committed for several years.
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This is why Vermont should permit/require party registration: (Original Post)
George II
Aug 2018
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When was the last time Democrats had a candidate in the Class 1 Senate Election?
George II
Aug 2018
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Voltaire2
(13,154 posts)3. The Republican Party in Vermont is in complete
disarray. Heres a clue: thats great! Dont change anything!
George II
(67,782 posts)4. It could happen to us Democrats, too. In fact it did, on a smaller scale!
Voltaire2
(13,154 posts)5. The Democratic Party in Vermont is doing just fine.
George II
(67,782 posts)6. When was the last time Democrats had a candidate in the Class 1 Senate Election?
Voltaire2
(13,154 posts)7. Oh of course that's your upset.
VT congressional delegation is all caucusing with Democrats. The VDP is fine with things just as they are. The people of Vermont are fine with it. Perhaps put your focus somewhere Republicans can be unseated?
George II
(67,782 posts)8. Rather presumptuous.