Yay! Meet the next governor of Vermont, Sue Minter

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At least I hope she'll be the guv. She's running against well liked moderate republican current Lt. Guv Phil Scott. And Vermont's weird in the same way MA is- from time to time out of what I can only guess is some weird sense of "fairness" thing, we elect repub guvs.

For Lt Guv, Vermont dems chose longtime Vermont Progressive Party legislator David Zuckerman (yay) over also really good guy VT House Majority Leader, Shap Smith. David is a sitting P/D State Senator. He's definitely the next Lt. Guv whoever wins the Gubernatorial race. The repubs didn't even have a contested primary and republican Randy Brock has no more of a chance than republican Scott Milne who's running against Leahy.


Vermont has only had one other woman Governor, Madeline Kunin. And we have never sent a woman to Congress- but then again, Pat Leahy who just effectively won his 8th term tonight, is the first democratic Senator from Vermont. Peter Welch is will remain our sole U.S. House Rep.

Here's our next Lt. Guv:

You'll be seeing more of him in the coming years- probably in the U.S. Senate or House.

Whoever is elected Governor (probably Sue Minter), both houses will retain dem super majorities.

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