by Guy Page
Every incumbent Democrat senator who voted to override all or most of Gov. Phil Scott’s legislative vetoes and is seeking re-election faces a contested primary and/or general election.
Data from the Vermont Secretary of State’s election website shows who’s running, and who’s not, in every Senate race. The primary is August 13, the general election November 5. Data compiled by VDC from the Vermont Legislature’s website records how all the Senate and House members voted on the veto questions of Act 250, renewable energy, school taxation, safe injection sites, and other legislation.
Democratic incumbent senators face primaries in two Chittenden County districts, and in Windsor, Grand Isle, and Addison Counties.
The only Senate incumbents with neither primary nor general election challenges are all Republicans: Randy Brock and Bob Norris of Franklin County, Rich Westman of Lamoille County, and Russ Ingalls of Essex County. (This could change: county parties may appoint candidates for the general election following the August primary if there are vacancies on the ticket.)
Election Status of incumbent senators who voted in June 17 veto session
| Baruth of Chittenden-Central District | Democrat | Contested Primary, Uncontested General | ||
| Bray of Addison District | Democrat | Contested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Brock of Franklin District | Republican | Uncontested Primary, Uncontested General | ||
| Campion of Bennington District | Democrat | Not Seeking Re-election | ||
| Chittenden of Chittenden-Southeast District | Democrat | Contested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Clarkson of Windsor District | Democrat | Contested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Collamore of Rutland District | Republican | Uncontested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Cummings of Washington District | Democrat | Uncontested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Gulick of Chittenden-Central District | Democrat | Contested Primary, Uncontested General | ||
| Hardy of Addison District | Democrat | Contested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Harrison of Windham District | Democrat | Uncontested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Hashim of Windham District | Democrat | Uncontested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Ingalls of Essex District | Republican | Uncontested Primary, Uncontested General | ||
| Julow of Grand Isle District | Democrat | Contested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Kitchel of Caledonia District | Democrat | Not Seeking Re-election | ||
| Lyons of Chittenden-Southeast District | Democrat | Contested Primary, Contested General | ||
| MacDonald of Orange District | Democrat | Uncontested Primary, Contested General | ||
| McCormack of Windsor District | Democrat | Not Seeking Re-election | ||
| Norris of Franklin District | Republican | Uncontested Primary, Uncontested General | ||
| Perchlik of Washington District | Democrat | Uncontested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Ram Hinsdale of Chittenden-Southeast District | Democrat | Contested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Starr of Orleans District | Democrat | Not Seeking Re-election | ||
| Vyhovsky of Chittenden-Central District | Democrat/Prog | Contested Primary, Uncontested General | ||
| Watson of Washington District | Democrat | Uncontested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Weeks of Rutland District | Republican | Uncontested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Westman of Lamoille District | Republican | Uncontested Primary, Uncontested General | ||
| White of Windsor District | Democrat | Contested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Williams of Rutland District | Republican | Uncontested Primary, Contested General | ||
| Wrenner of Chittenden-North District | Democrat | Uncontested Primary, Contested General |
House incumbents’ election status will be updated tomorrow or next week.
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They all need to go before we go broke.
About those voting machines the last SOS forced on the towns, weather they liked it or not, then resigned from running again…we are watching every move made in this election process…and I mean EVERY move.
Are you better off under the democrat majority or do you want something better. Do you remember how great it was when it was a total republican (no rinos) ran state like I do? It is not going to get better under our current reps. Time to try a change, have more money, and have the time to enjoy living in Vermont again.
The last time that happened was 80 years ago btw
Every one of them are a cancer upon this once proud little Republican state.
Time to fire the Lot , new crew needed to run this state ! Start soon before they take your house and belongings !
WHERE have all the VERMONTERS Gone , to heaven must be , only Demorates left, So Sad ! Remember to Vote ! Save the State .
thirty vermont senators//// six down, twenty four more to go//// nine from twenty four would mean, fifteen more to go//// time will tell/// remember the ones that were in power during the lock down//// they keep getting their paycheck////
We can only hope.
Seven women and two men. Allison Clarkson is from Buffalo, escape their dirty politics and entered her socialist mind for Vermont’s dirty politics.. In a local newspaper, The Shopper (Ludlow), her writings are crapology. Being from Windsor, she’s in the area of Upper Massachusetts whom they depend on. Wonder how she handles mileage, lodging, meals income as written in a recent VDC article. Like David Zuckerman?. In her writings, as the saying goes “If You can’t dazzle em with brilliance, then baffle em with BS”.
Clarkson isn’t from Windsor, she lives in wealthy Woodstock. Big difference, though her crapology might fly in Woodstock. As far as upper Massachusetts, I don’t see it, maybe further south in Brattleboro.
In regards to the November election, Trump v Biden, I have the last Prez election election, a copy. Also have seen other states. The SOS compost (?), made up the voting sheets. Biden was at the top of the Dem column and Trump was at the bottom of the Rep column, rather hidden and you wonder if the guy was on the ballot. This is the VT way, deceit. Bet it will be alike this November. Compost is corrupt. Biden and Trump were the front runners respectively. Other states had it that way as mentioned. Compost needs to face the music. Cauliflower ears would be appropriate.
You know that the names are listed alphabetically right, Einstein?
Well, Vermont if you want to save our state, vote these inept fools out, apparently all they care about is an agenda, you are the money tree and that’s all that matters to them, your voice means nothing………………………………..
We elect a Governor to make sound decisions, but we also have the ” stupid majority”
and they rule the roost, and you’ll pay the price !!
Wake up people, it’s not to late.
My county (Windsor) needs a complete changing of the guard. Clarkson- OUT, White -OUT, McCormack (hopefully not running) OUT.. If we don’t correct our course and vote in some common sense this election cycle we never will. With all the liberal transplants here now I’m not optimistic.
Time to drain the swamp. While I still vote in Vermont, I will do my part. Let’s hope even the Lefties have had enough.
PLEASE find some non-MAGA Republicans who could actually get elected!!!!
I completely agree, the time is now. Watching this idiot get schooled by Sleepy Joe (who is really smooth looking for some reason) is pathetic. He just tried to reframe January 6th as a high point of the economy. Now Trump is denying hanging out with Nazis. Who believes this drivel? Oh wait
Wow I take that back. That ended up being an absolute massacre, sad to watch. If I were the Democrats, I’d be crapping my pants right now. Imagine if we were running Nikki Haley. It’d be over
lol Chris had to wait for the “news” to come out to tell him his views and opinions are. It’s all pre-scripted bud. It’s like a musical where the main character starts singing, and then everyone else magically knows what to sing.
Westman not only was the only Republican to vote to allow the injection sites for hard drugs, but he voted against it, then asked for a revote (apparently because he didn’t expect two Democrats to vote no). He needs to be voted out no matter what! He needs an opponent.
Republicans don’t have enough candidates to remove most of these bottom feeders.
In a three seat senate constituency Dems have four candidates and Republicans have one, maybe two. When they do get a candidate it is some crazy like that Madden dude who ran for congress.
Vermont’s GOP is not the opposition they are enablers.
Republicans can’t agree on what to have for lunch. No cohesion in the party. And Vermont voters, many of whom moved here for the looney leftwing politics are like brainwashed zombies who line up to vote against their own interests, meaning vote for democrats. But I repeat myself.
2024 Vermont selection season. Should we find out which lobbyist or bureaucrat the candidate is shagging before we decide? Should we know which investments they’ve made before they propose new taxes and fees to fund their investments? How many are registered for a meal train because they’ll be too busy to fix their own grub? An exercise in futility – here’s your lawn sign – believe the lies and receive the results with great demoralization and indebted, impoverished servitude.
Westman the Waffler is a perfect picture of sham the Republican Party in VT has become, just like Phil Scott: R(h)inos in Elephants’ clothing. An empty shell of the robust conservatism and Judeo-Christian values that the Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Regan Republican Party once embodied.
When you have “Republican” politicians such as Scott and Westman and Pence denying and voting against our most basic rights and liberty, what does it really even mean to be Republican anymore?
When the most basic right-to-life floorboard of the Republican platform has been removed, how can the rest of the platform have any more structural integrity and not collapse?
“Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; lovingkindness and truth go before You.”
Psalms 89:14 NASB
“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
Psalms 11:3 NASB
Senator Westman voted to sustain Governor Scott’s veto of the Clean Heat Standard. They are smart, in my book, and must be re-elected.
There are always lots of comments about voting them out, which I agree with.. However, there are way to may uncontested races every election and the left win by default. If this are going to change we need more moderate’s to run. Not someone with an agenda. Someone I who is there to represent those that sent them there. We need to have candidates. Please run for office.