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Kesha Ram Hinsdale to appear at Democrat event at Barre Labor Hall next week
by Guy Page
Here’s something we’ll be talking about on Feedback Friday on WDEV today from 11:05 – noon. No guests, just callers, join the fun at 802-244-1777.
Snow is falling in Vermont, and so are early hints about next year’s political races. One eyebrow-raiser: Chittenden County Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale will join Washington County senators for a community Q&A next Wednesday at Barre’s historic Old Labor Hall.
It’s billed as simple outreach, but her appearance outside her district has sparked speculation. Ram Hinsdale came close in the 2022 lieutenant governor’s race and has been increasingly visible statewide. A stop at the Labor Hall—a classic venue for Democratic organizing—looks a lot like the kind of early groundwork potential candidates lay.
So Vermonters are wondering: is she positioning herself for a run for governor or lieutenant governor? Maybe Ram, who is after all the Senate Majority Leader, is just trying to pump up the Senate Dem caucus at a meeting announced by Erin Stoetzner, Senate Caucus Director for the Vermont Democratic Party.
Maybe she’s just going to a community meeting. But it could also be the first sign of something bigger.
On paper, it’s simply a chance for neighbors from Barre, Montpelier, Berlin, and Northfield to meet their lawmakers. But Ram Hinsdale’s presence has sparked some quiet chatter: is she gearing up for another statewide run?
We already know that first-term lieutenant governor John Rodgers plans to run in 2026. In 2024 he rode the Red Wave to defeat Progressive-ish Democrat David Zuckerman. Treasurer Mike Pieciak has all but officially declared he will run for governor – if not this time, then soon. The timing depends on what the Nation’s Most Popular Governor, Phil Scott, decides. And most politics watchers think he’s got at least one more term in his sights.
Maybe Ram’s jaunt to the Barre Labor Hall next Wednesday is just outreach. But with speculation swirling about open seats for governor and lieutenant governor next year, her visit to Barre is raising eyebrows. What do you think?
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What is factual about the Old Labor Hall manifested into an ongoing curse around that area. Careful confabbing in places where blood was/is spilled all around it. Are today’s socialists and anarchists under the same spiritis as ones of generations past?
“October 5, 1903: “Elia Corti was shot in the stomach and mortally wounded at a meeting in the Socialist building on Granite Street.
Corti died at midnight last night at Heaton Hospital in Montpelier having lived about 30 hours after he received the bullet. Corti was only 34 years old.
In subsequent years, the hall and the socialist party fell on hard times, impacted by changing sentiments and natural disasters, including the Flood of 1927. The building was sold in 1936 and later became a bottling plant and a coal distributor, among other things. It survived several fires (and more floods.) Its final commercial use was as a warehouse for Vermont Pak Tomato until 1994 when the company went bankrupt. In 2000–a century after it was built–it was designated as a National Historic Landmark.”
Under Federal jurisdiction? I wonder if the digital surveilance is attached within the walls, secured to a telephone pole nearby, or via Starlink/SpaceForce?
Bad enough that Vermont’s ENTIRE congressional delegation is made up of liberal interlopers from other states in the northeast who came to Vermont to be big political fish in a a small pond. Now we may see the rise of one that came from California. God help Vermont, if our voters dont wake up from this dystopian marxist nightmare.
Headline fixed:
Feedback Friday video: What Democrat senator isn’t planning a statewide takeover?
Please, we don’t need a Lib in the governor’s chair. We got rid of the veto-proof majority but not the majority. If a Lib gets in there, the majority once again can have their way with us all. For all of his faults, Phil Scott is our only defense against the majority. Let’s keep him where he is and keep on getting the Libs out of office.
I dread the day he announces he has had enough, since no other republican in Vermont seems to have the stature at the polls to replace him. As much of a RINO he is, the horrors of a Baruth, Krowinski, LaLonde or Vyhovsky governorship should send shudders up the spine of any freedom-loving Vermonter.
This comment is a reply to Rich L. The day that nightmare (Baruth, Krowinski, LaLonde or any other Liberal, Socialist, Communist becomes governor) comes to fruition, is the day I’ll drive out of VT.
I’m on the same team as Kesha but she and her hubby turned me off when they demanded $500K so that a housing development near their home could move forward … which means Kesha doesn’t really care about homelessness or Vermont’s housing crunch.
Guy please clarify: you said Ram Hinsdale came close in the LG race in 2022. That race was Zuckerman vs Benning. Which race are you referring to that Kesha was in that was close?
I’d support Pieciak for inmate of the month for his role in EB-5
The only race I can find where Kesha ran for LG was in the 2016 Dem primary. In that race she got 17.3% of the vote.
Even Lefties can’t stand her given her husband’s association with his family business, Hinsdale Properties. She’s perceived as a gold digging hypocrite. There’s zero chance she would win a statewide election.