I love my state legislature

[cali]

They're not perfect but by and large it's a damned good body and is comprised of a lot of smart,compassionate commonsense people. I particularly want to shout out to the Speaker of the House, Shap Smith. This is a guy who did the near impossible: he managed to overturn our ex-puke guv's veto of the marriage equality law. And now he's quietly and efficiently ushered the single payer legislation through the House. He's not the most liberal member of the Vermont legilature, but man, the guy is an excellent leader.

I just wish there were more people like the Vermont dem and progressive legislators in the U.S. Congress.

Thanks Shap and thanks Governor Shumlin.

[Versailles]

1. Wish I'd never left....

I miss Vermont. I left when I was young and politically uniformed for a job in AZ criticizing VT for being too boring and slow...now I'm stuck in another RW hell of SC. I want to go back!!!!


On the plus side, I wouldn't have met my wife if I hadn't left, so maybe the universe was just setting me up to appreciate VT all the more when we get back there...

[SPedigrees]

2. I dearly loved this state when I spent summers at my grandparents'

home as a small child in the early 1950s. After growing up in Boston area, it was inevitable that I would move back here in the early 1970s to the paradise I remembered. But who knew it would morph into the liberal utopia that it is today.