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Date Posted: 12:18:42 03/18/03 Tue
Author: Eric
Subject: Re: Sue Bartlett
In reply to: Captain America 's message, "Re: Sue Bartlett" on 11:05:50 03/18/03 Tue

I don't disagree with your analysis but you miss a key point. If, as you suggest, Bernie runs for Governor then Shumlin is out.

There is no way he'll go through what he went through last year!

That's why he'll run for Congress. Along with Doug, Liz, Deb, et. al.

I also think Susan is great but she's never run statewide.

>Shumlin has pretty well committed to the Governor's
>race. Welch has indicated that he wants to continue
>as leader of the Senate for now.
>If Ready and Markowitz both go it, the Dems leave two
>open offices ... (sec. of state and auditor) and I
>don't see that happening. One of them might have a go
>for Congress, not both at once.
>If Racine wants it, I don't know that any other
>Democrat would challange him.
>I can see that there might be a primary race ... but I
> also think that Vermont's Dems have a good record of
>deciding these things without costly primaries (let's
>hope that Ed Flannagan is out of the picture for
>good!)
>
>Mostly I just think that Sue Bartlett would be a great
>Congresswoman.
>
>>In the scenario you describe the Democratic primary
>>will be a bloodbath.
>>
>>Doug Racine, Peter Shumlin, Peter Welch, Liz Ready,
>>Deb Markowitz and others will likely run.
>>
>>It will be ugly. And I'm a liberal.
>>
>>
>>
>>>If Bernie runs for Governor, the Democrats will be
>>>able to run a viable candidate for the US House for
>>>the first time in a decade or so. It just occured to
>>>me that Lamoille County Senator Susan Bartlett would
>>>be a gem of a candidate.

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