Dear Gov. Scott,
Your voice I heard daily during the Covid pandemic. You were a comfort.
Your voice I heard during Vermont’s severe storms and flooding disasters. You were a reassurance.
Vermonters need you to speak out against the Trump administration’s civil and human rights rollbacks, and the arrests and deportations of student activists and immigrants, regardless of free speech and due process. We need you to protest the massive budget cuts and firing of federal workers, incapacitating many governmental departments. But where are you now?
Instead of rising above national rhetoric we must raise our voices against the inhumane chaos of Donald Trump’s administration.
If our state and country ever needed you, a person of power, to speak out against the increasing atrocities in the United States we need it now.
Growing up in South Carolina I looked to Vermont as one of the leaders of change in our country. We offer hope for many and they look to us for it.
Mary Oliphant
Williston
