Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin endorses Hillary Clinton

[Dem2]

http://www.wptz.com/news/shumlin-endorses-hillary-clinton/33130296

[Thinkingabout]

1. Must be name recognition.

[djean111]

2. This -

"I don't see this as a particular rebuff to Bernie Sanders. And I am not sure if it will have any lasting ramifications for either man's political careers, so I think it is pretty much in keeping the sort of circling the wagons around Mrs. Clinton by the organizational Democrats."

Nice for Hillary, though! I don't take advice for whom to vote for from Snoop Dogg or from conservative, er, conventional Democrats, though!

[leftofcool]

3. Good. Many more Governors will follow suit.

[Agschmid]

19. Lol "many"...

We only have something like 13 governors, sort of an embrassing amount if you ask me. But that's a different issue altogether.

[cali]

4. of course he does.typical shumlin. deeply unpopular with voters and the dem

legislature.

From a post I wrote last year:

In a state this small, you can't get away for too long with the shit Peter Shumlin has pulled. Yes, he's supposedly the most liberal governor in the country, but his incompetency, the ongoing disaster of the health exchange, his lack of virtually any good relationships with fellow lawmakers in his own party, and the nasty story about his cheating a poor neighbor out of his property, all caught up with him. In Vermont, all politics are super local.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025816030

He's truly a creep.

[NYC_SKP]

5. "More free Ben & Jerry's ice cream for the rest of us."

Bernie's reaction:

"He's (Shumlin) entitled to endorse whoever he wants, what this means is more free Ben & Jerry's ice cream for the rest of us."

[JaneyVee]

6. Ugh. And the comment section has a sexist post.

Bernie needs to have a talk with supporters the way McCain shunned his supporters assertions of Obama the terrorist.

[cali]

8. what bullshit. one sexist post and Bernie should talk to his supporters

hey, a DUer wrote a blatantly anti-semitic post about Bernie, should Hillary call out her supporters?
Nonsense to suggest that Bernie's supporters are sexist based on one post.

[JaneyVee]

11. Fine. But its starting to seems like a trend.

Its already coming from the rightwingin droves, and it seems like some on the left are already using these rightwing memes because the goal is to tear her down by any means necessary. All Im saying is it wouldn't hurt to reiterate that he already said he's not going negative, and not to take the rightwing bait. Believe me, there is a massive concerted effort by the rightwing to drive a wedge into the party.

[cali]

13. there is no trend of bernie supporters making sexist comments

And conflating his supporters with right wing sexists is unfair.

[boston bean]

16. Can you link to the post you describe above?

[cali]

18. I'll try to find it- it was in Politics shortly after he announced-

and it was only one person. It was weird, about how he was pals with Netanyahu and some other crap.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I'm tempted to log in and tell this asshole what I think of him

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ShiloSharp • 3 hours ago
Is Shummy backing Hillary simply because she's a democrat, or because of some unknown accomplishment of Hillary's? Can anyone name or describe a single accomplishment of Hillary's, aside from being born with female plumbing and being married to Bill?
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Bachelor Of Arts -Wellesley College
Doctor Of Jurisprudence-Yale University
First Lady
Two term senator from the fourth most populous state in America and the financial capital of the world
Secretary of State

She's eminently qualified

[freshwest]

10. Yes, he needs to talk to them. Bernie wouldn't do that. But they are turning people off. n/t

[cali]

12. them? one post is a them?

Ok,then because one Hillary supporter her on du made anti-Semitic comments about Bernie, Hillary needs to call out her supporters

[cali]

7. more about how unpopular our faux progressive guv is:

Gov. Peter Shumlin had to sneak out the back door of his own inauguration.

That should tell you a thing or two about how politically weakened the East Montpelier Democrat finds himself as he settles in to a third two-year term.

Blocking Shumlin's path from the dais of the Vermont House to its front entrance Thursday afternoon was a group of Vermont Workers' Center activists irate over his decision three weeks ago to scrap his long-promised single-payer health care plan. After the governor concluded his inaugural remarks, the protesters sat down in the center aisle and would not leave the House for more than five hours, at which point the Vermont State Police arrested 29 of them.

Left-wing health care advocates weren't the only ones standing in Shumlin's path. Earlier in the day, 69 members of the Vermont legislature took the remarkable step of voting against returning him to office, despite the fact that he won a plurality in last November's election.

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http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2015/01/09/analysis-peter-shumlins-no-good-very-bad-day

[okasha]

15. And yet Vermont voters have elected the man governor for the third time.

That's unpopularity, all right.

[cali]

17. my, my. you need to be filled in: Vermont, the bluest state in the country BARELY

reelected the Chumpster. And let's not forget, in Vermont, it's a two year term and it's practically unprecedented for a sitting guv, repub or dem to not be reelected handily. Shummy's Repub predecessor, Jim Douglas, was.

He's deeply disliked by Dems, VT Progs (yes we have viable third party here), Repubs and Indies. Here, just for you:


In an election cycle of shocking surprises—Larry Hogan’s win in Maryland, Mark Warner’s near-death experience—none are greater than the slap in the face Vermont voters gave Governor Peter Shumlin. Ten days after the election, Shumlin, who as Chairman of the Democratic Governor’s Association was tasked with helping elect other Democratic governors, still has not been declared winner in a race no one thought was a contest.

In 2014, few thought he would have a tough race. Republicans had a difficult time fielding a candidate, and only after the 2012 Marijuana Party candidate announced she’d run as a Republican did the party establishment, led by former governor Jim Douglas, unify around businessman Scott Milne. Though he had never held office before, he was the son of two prominent Republicans and had the sort of bio Vermonters love: raised on a farm, small businessman, an avid hiker who lived next to the Appalachian Trail.

He spent only $20,000 on television to win the August Republican primary, and no one seriously thought he had a chance to win the general. At least until around 9 pm on election night when the numbers showed him in a dead heat with Peter Shumlin. In the end, Shumlin led by a puny 2,434 votes, less than the 50 percent margin needed for victory under Vermont law. This throws the election into the Vermont state house, where Democrats have a sizeable advantage.

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Assuming he sticks it out, the election will be thrown into the Vermont state house, where Democrats have a sizeable advantage. It’s assumed the vote will go Shumlin’s way. But for a governor who was never very popular with fellow state legislators when he was a colleague and has often treated them dismissively as governor, it is most humbling that his fate now rests in their hands.

How did the Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association in the bluest of blue states not even make it to 50 while Vermont’s single Congressman, Democratic Peter Welch, won with 64 percent? This in a state that has a near record-low unemployment of 4.4 percent.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/13/what-the-hell-happened-in-vermont.html

[druidity33]

14. Not surprising...

this from a guy who decided to confront a bear because it was getting into his bird feeder. I've met him and seen him speak a few times, and not been impressed. I'll support Hillary if she's the nominee, but i'd rather have Bernie.





edited to add:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75105.html