I’ll bite, but with a caveat.

FTX represents the largest political campaign fraud in US history with our newly elected House Rep unwittingly being one of the largest benefactors of that fraud.

So, given the currently known facts, yeah it’s a VT story.

But I wanna hear your take Rama. Just pitching a grenade through a window and watching/hoping to see carnage is really boring for the rest of us.

Bail? Vermont still does that?

You watch too much TV.

The “she might not be able to comment on it yet” line is silly.

She is a US congressperson and can comment on anything she wishes, even ongoing investigations.

She is choosing not to comment and the optics are not good.

I don’t have a reason to believe she was aware of the fraud. She did benefit from the fraud.

I hope she gets it together over the weekend and agrees to talk about this with the Vermont media.

Evidence for your wild assertion please. Oh yeah, this is Reddit.

Curious. Which majority vote getter candidate (where the rules state the election is decided by 50+1) didn’t get seated into office?

She declined to comment to VT Digger. She has been free with the media before and after the election, but on this issue, she’s avoiding the media.

Maybe that’s a good strategy. She is part of the largest fraudulent campaign violation that has taken place in the nation’s history.

In my original comment, I noted that there is no evidence she was aware of the fraud.

I had hoped she would be forthcoming when asked about this by the local press. Sadly, some of our federal delegation doesn’t take questions from the Vermont media.

It’s gonna be a dark world when no politician ever makes a statement on a sticky issue and relies solely on their spokesperson/attorney.

Why such a low standard?

I think I heard somewhere that she grow up on a farm. Hmmmm…

Except it doesn’t change the major problems and adds levels of government regulation at the regional level.

So very frustrating.

Fraudulent political donations that absolutely impacted the outcome of the democrat primary election in Vermont is not trivial.

In DC maybe. Becca has been open and available to the VT media leading up to and after her election.

Suddenly, she’s to busy and has to leave this national story for the spokesperson.

26k direct and another $1,000,000 dropped on your primary campaign. Yeah, it’s really bad optics.

Not sure what the OP is offering when his link is to a discredited former left wing “journalist” who’s blog is dedicated to sowing supposition and dissent among Vermonters.

Again, we can do better.

And be sure to look for a new place to live when your lease is up if the landlord finds out who put up the opposing sign. Ugh.

Sure. At the State level… End act 250. The 10 acre loophole and forest fragmentation is the result of this grand idea. End current use tax beaks. Most of this goes to the wealthy.
End TIF districts. Allows pet projects to be prioritized in generally wealthy parts of the state.
Ban all future building above 1750 elevation Statewide property and school tax with no variation between towns. Tax second homes at double the residential rate. Get environmental laws on the same page with development rules. For example, Vermont uses village designation to allow/incentivize more density in towns. Those towns are almost always next to a river that can no longer be managed as it was for the last 200 years of favor of fluvial erosion. In the age of climate change and redrawn federal flood districts, the end result is that nothing gets built.

At the regional level… Actually decide if regional or county planning is going to be a thing, and if so, give them authority. Currently we have a weak county/regional government. Playing around at the regional level without establishing the authority and role of the regional/county government is just a bureaucratic mess.

At the local level… Towns currently have local zoning, this was done at the behest and funding of the VT legislature. Well intentioned, but a problem of the legislatures own making that now keeps VT as a diorama under glass.

Let the towns and cities make their own zoning. Give tax breaks to those who allow greater density development. The local option tax shows that incentives for development work (see Williston, South Burlington and Burlington). Towns and their residents need to realize a benefit if they are being asked to change their current qualify of life.

What I can guarantee is that adding more layers of government regulation on top of the existing drivers of restriction and cost will not end with a positive result in a timely manner.

At this point, there is no evidence the Congresswoman knew about the fraud. It appears she was used as a pawn in the FTX fraud agenda.

I am disappointed the Congresswoman is unwilling to answer questions from journalists at VT Digger.

Hiding behind a spokesperson is really bad optics Becca.

Pretty cool.

I expected Rama to post this drivel, but he’s apparently gone away.

It’s not really a good report.

It starts by picking on how people dress for a family photo and gets more pathetic from there.

John Walters is washed up, seeing a right wing threat around every corner.

He was forced to resign/fired from Seven Days for a lack of accuracy. Let that sink in. Forced to resign because he couldn’t be accurate while reporting on politics.

https://vtdigger.org/2019/08/20/political-columnist-john-walters-was-forced-to-resign-from-seven-days/

We can all do better.

I think this bill or a similar bill is likely to pass this or next session.

Please read the proposed legislation, it’s linked from the Digger story.

The elements of the regional plan portion of the bill are straight up central planning, including a requirement to hire “housing resource navigators” to direct the Towns.

More layers of government regulation never make life (or housing) more affordable for average Vermonters.

Hook, line and sinker. They have you.

Do you actually believe that the state will stop after taking this step of control over local zoning?

The state already “incentivizes” traditional village settlement patterns (largely along now un-managed rivers in the age of climate change??? /smh) with designation, funding and regional planning entities.

I’m sure Burlington residents are gonna love the plan that the Jericho/Underhill legislators have in store for them.

This is not gonna end well or inexpensively.

If only. Rainbows and unicorns.

Ugh. I’m torn on this.

On one hand, it’s clear we have a major problem with local zoning keeping the landed gentry wealthy and keeping “those” people out.

On the other, the state has a miserable record of “fixing” problems by taking control over them (school funding and healthcare are obvious examples).

Be prepared for housing and associated infrastructure to get exponentially more expensive and controversial as the state “fixes it”.

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