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Progressive Leaders Endorse Doug Racine
HINESBURG, VT – Several individual Progressive party members gathered at the Full Moon Farm this morning in Hinesburg to express their support for Doug Racine in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Jerry Greenfield and Elizabeth Skarie joined David Zuckerman, Dexter Randall, Diane Peel, Peggy Sapphire and Bob Feinburg to encourage Vermonters to vote… Continue reading
“I’m talking about shifting priorities and using state resources such as the capital and transportation budgets to make investments,” Racine said. “We can’t continue to cut our way out of this.” Continue reading
Racine was the ONLY candidate to say, while he believes the state workforce has dropped below what it needs to be to support the services Vermont needs, he says he cannot tell state workers he’ll never cut another government job. Continue reading
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“I don’t think things are going to go well for Democrats in November. When you have the Congress and the presidency in a mid-year election you lose seats. That’s just the way it is.” Continue reading
Racine: “Jim Douglas has made them the enemy of Vermonters in some way and suggested that their work isn’t important and sort of devalued what they’ve done.” Continue reading
Doug Racine chalks up another union endorsement — this time from the Vermont-NEA, the powerful state teachers union, which has a membership of 11,500 Vermonters. Continue reading
Eric Davis predicts about 60,000 voters will go to the polls on Aug. 24, and he expects a 50 percent to 75 percent turnout from union members. Continue reading
Sen. Doug Racine, D-Chittenden, is one of five Democratic candidates in a bid for governor. Yesterday, 26 lawmakers announced their support of his candidacy. Continue reading
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