In Vermont, there are lots of pols with integrity and passion fighting for people.
Here are 2 up and comers:
Timothy Ashe (born December 10, 1976) is one of six current Vermont Senators from the Chittenden Vermont Senate District.
Ashe graduated from the University of Vermont in 1999. He immediately went to work in then Congressman Bernie Sanders’ Burlington office where he worked for two and a half years.[1] In late 2001 Ashe took a position with United Academics, the faculty union at the University of Vermont.
From 2002 to 2004 Ashe attended Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.[2] While there he concentrated his studies on domestic social policy. He also served as a teaching assistant to Ed Miliband, now a British MP and the leader of the Labour Party, in a course comparing US and northern European social policy. Upon graduating Ashe moved back home to Vermont.
Ashe served on the Board of Spectrum Youth and Family Services, a community organization serving at-risk youth. He coached in the Old North End Little League for two years. He is an advocate for lost creatures, helping to reunite a dog with his family October 13, 2013.
In July 2004, Ashe successfully sought a seat on the Burlington City Council in a special election to replace Carina Driscoll. He has won re-election in 2005 and 2007. Ashe became the youngest member of the Council when elected.
Ashe worked at the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity from 2005 to 2006. Since the Fall of 2006, Ashe has been a Project Manager at Cathedral Square, a nationally recognized[citation needed] non-profit developer of affordable housing for seniors and people with disabilities.
In November 2008 Tim Ashe became the first elected Vermont Progressive to be elected to the Vermont Senate. And in November 2010 was the first Progressive to win reelection to the senate. He won on a Progressive/Democratic fusion ticket and was endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders.[4][5]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ashe
David Zuckerman, State Senator:
Zuckerman ran for the Vermont House in 1994 while still enrolled in college, losing by 59 votes. He ran again two years later and become the fourth Progressive Party member to serve in the Vermont State House, a seat that he held through 2010.[1]
Prior to serving in the House, he served on the Burlington Electric Commission. While in the House he served for 6 years on the Natural Resources and Energy Committee as well as 6 years on the Agriculture Committee, including 4 as the Chairperson. He finished his time in the House of Representatives by serving on the Ways and Means Committee. In 2005, Zuckerman considered running for the sole Vermont seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2006 U.S. House election, that was being vacated by Independent Rep. (now Senator) Bernie Sanders, eventually deciding not to run in order to continue serving as Agriculture Chair in the Vermont House of Representatives.
Zuckerman ran for Vermont State Senate in 2012 and won as a Progressive/Democrat.[2][3]
In his time in the General Assembly, Sen. Zuckerman has been involved in the passage of Vermont's civil union and marriage equality laws, workers' rights legislation, increasing the minimum wage, sustainable (economic and environmental) agricultural policy, marijuana policy reform, election law reform, many renewable energy initiatives, progressive taxation policy as well as universal healthcare.
In January 2014, Sen. Zuckerman introduced legislation that would allow for recreational sale and use of marijuana. If passed it would allow for possession up to 2 ounces of cannabis, and the cultivation of up to 3 plants for anyone that is 21 and over. It would also have the penalty for under-aged consumption of marijuana be the same as the current penalty± for under-aged drinking.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zuckerman_%28politician%29
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