Haas Is Not
Fringe Candidate
     The idea that Sandy Haas is a "fringe" candidate is absurd. I have known and worked with her for decades; she is committed to fairness, honesty and the well-being of all Vermonters; God help us if these are fringe qualities.
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Braintree Needs
New Direction
     Everywhere we hear about town and school taxes. I have come up with a solution to help you all out.
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District Voters Need a Change
     As I was growing up a large part of our legislature was made up of farmers. They went to Montpelier to get a very important job done and get back to the farm for early spring farm duties.
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Fox Is Willing
To Listen
     As an elected member of Bethel selectboard, I disagree with the description of Neal Fox as "not a leader," as stated in a letter in your issue last week.
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Fox Would Bring More Prosperity
     After much thought, I have decided to support Neal Fox for the legislature this fall.
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Give Our Youth Broad Horizons
     I was interested in the editorial by Ty Handy and the letter by Barb Baumann regarding VSAC money for college students. Both dovetailed with a recent article in Atlantic Monthly about a national trend of college grads to ever smaller groups of Urban areas.
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Neal Fox And
The Town Hall
     The letter in last week’s Herald from Chris Hemond criticizing legislative candidate Neal Fox for his alleged failure as a "leader" betrays a political self-centeredness that should have no place in theses critical times.
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Neal Fox
Knows Vermont
     I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the race for the legislative seat between Sandra Haas and Neal Fox. In light of the personal attack on Neal Fox that appeared in a recent editorial I felt it was time to stand up and be counted.
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Rainville Not
An Independent
An open letter to Martha Rainville
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Send Ainsworth To Montpelier
     I would urge the voters from Royalton and Tunbridge to vote for David Ainsworth as Representative. I have had the opportunity to work with David on the SRHS Alumni Association, while he served as president, trustee and volunteer.
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Vt. VFW Didn’t Endorse Sanders
     I am writing to you to clear up a misunderstanding concerning the so-called "endorsement of Bernie Sanders" by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Wants Neal Fox
In Vt. House
     As a citizen of Bethel I want to see Neal Fox in the Vermont House. I can’t forget how diligently he worked last year as chair of the selectboard to lower the town’s share of the Church Street Bridge, saving Bethel hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Respectful Of
Neighborhood
     I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate two organizations for showing exemplary care for this community. First is Gifford hospital for providing the town with a badly-needed sidewalk that improves both safety and aesthetics on Hospital Hill.
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The Tolerance
Of an Angel
     I plan to vote for Sandy Haas for district representative in our state legislature. I encourage all to do the same.
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She Should Have
Stayed in Job
     After reading "Rainville Makes Her Move In Run for Congress" by M. D. Drysdale (10/19), I feel as though I read a draft speech by the candidate on how important she thinks public service is.
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Scudder Looks
To the Future
     Candidates for office are generally not as good as their proponents make out, or as bad as the other party would have you believe.
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Haas Is Valuable
Legislator
     Sandy Haas and I serve together on the House Human Services Committee in the legislature.
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Kept Her Word
On Health Care
     Two years ago, Sandy Haas came to my door to introduce herself and talk to me about the critical issues facing Vermont and those of us living in her district in Pittsfield.
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Inspiring Support
For McLaughlin
     In all the years that I have been involved in political campaigns, I have never seen anything quite so inspiring.
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Sanders a Threat
To America
     How have Vermont and its people reached this point in our state’s history by considering to elect a candidate to the U.S. Senate who is a threat to our way of life?
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Reasons To Vote
For MacDonald
     Senator Mark MacDonald exemplifies many of the crucial qualities I look for in someone to represent me.
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Affordability
Issues Important
For those who missed the Affordability Forum at VTC on Tuesday evening the following highlights and can be reported
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Wilderness
Stats Misleading
     More-wilderness advocates in Vermont have consistently used a set of sound bites to bolster their arguments for adding more wilderness to the wilderness acres we already have in the Green Mountain National Forest.
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Let's Reëlect
An Honest Guy
     At a time when corruption and scandal seem rife in our national politics, we are lucky to live in a state where politics is generally honest.
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Letter Was
Revealing
     Chris Hemond’s letter to the editor last week says a lot.
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Senate Choice
Is a Clear One
     A Congress, a Supreme Court, and an executive branch all dominated by self-styled "conservatives" have given us control of the national agenda by huge corporations, political corruption that's kept the Congressional ethics committees in overdrive, an ill-defined war in Iraq with no exit strategy, an...
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School Found
Bohnyak Helpful
     It is my pleasure to write this letter of support for Captain Bill Bohnyak for Orange County Sheriff. As principal of Williamstown Middle High School, I have known and worked with Captain Bohnyak for seven years.
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How Independent
     Is Rainville?
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