By Guy Page
Senate Pro Tem Phil Baruth announced on the floor today that he will not be seeking re-election and will retire from the Senate after this year.
Baruth also serves as Clerk of the Committee on Appropriations and as a member of the Senate Committee on Judiciary.
Elected to the Senate originally in 2010, the Burlington resident representing the Chittenden Central District has since served on the Education, Economic Development, Judiciary, and Agriculture Committees and served four years as Senate Majority Leader.
Baruth is known as a longtime advocate of gun-control legislation.
According to his Senate bio on the Legislature’s website, he has been teaching in the English Department at the University of Vermont since 1993, where he specializes in Creative Writing, Postmodern American Literature and Culture, Eighteenth-Century British Literature, and Vermont Literature.
Prior to 2010, Phil spent a dozen years as an award-winning commentator for Vermont Public Radio; he has spent the last twenty years writing novels as well. The X President, a darkly comic take on the life and legacy of Bill Clinton, became a New York Times Notable Book in 2003. The Brothers Boswell, his most recent novel, was listed as one of the Best Books of 2009 by the Washington Post.
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Categories: Elections
Does not mention he is Demoncrat, but I think I can connect the dots. Byeeeeeeeee!
Best news of the day!
Yeah ! Ding dong the witch is dead ! Did someone dump a bucket of water on him ? I see a celebratory Switchback in my future !
Maybe he’ll move back to Rockport N.Y. Good riddens !
Good riddance!!! And thank you for…not a damn thing..
Great news!!!
Don’t break out the champaign yet. It isn’t over until it’s over.
Bye!
When the going gets tough, quit!
Whatever it takes Dan ! Bottom line, we weathered is flat a$$ ! Boogie !
Good riddance D-Bag!
Couldn’t have said it better myself !
He was the best target the Vermont gun owners ever had. He will pop up some where else and still be a pain in the … as most likely working as a lobbyist for some gun control operation.
Vermonters second amendment rights will be safe, at least for a while, until the next progressive anti-gun person takes his place.
Those of us who support our civil rights to armed self-defense still await court action to reverse the harms he already did. Good riddance, Phil.
One commie down, 40,000 more to go.
I can only imagine the lineup of people seeking his seat. I hope the sane people in Burlington do the right thing although I doubt it.
Believe he’s made his millions off the taxpayers and special interests and has screwed up the state to where, he’s satisfied. Mission accomplished. Carpetbagger from NY. Wonder if he feels safe in Burlington, must be to his liking.
Read the internal polling and decided it’s as good a time to exit stage left, as any?
Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
The door could hit him in the teeth for all I care, just as long as he goes !
Great news, BUT will he be seeking higher office in Vermont, or go back to New York state, where he belongs?