We are barely a couple weeks into the new legislative session and certainly there are plenty of challenges Vermont faces. Housing, child care, homelessness, one of the highest per-capita taxed states, and on.
So does our new Senate leader rise to the challenge? No. He introduces multiple bills to slay his great white whale, gun ownership. And these few bills are rumored only to be a start on the attack on the 2nd Amendment.
How many news stories have we heard with the phrases “well known to police,” “arrested multiple times.” Yet none of these bills address requirements for prosecutors and/or judges to impose mandatory sentences.
We need a Senate leader who can address Vermont’s real problems, not his personal vendetta. He must go.
Paul Anderson
Fairfax