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A Word on the Vermont Senate Race

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  September 9th, 2010 at 05:52 PM  | 

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In May and June I highlighted Len Britton here on the from page.  He is a local businessman who decided he had had enough of the entrenched incumbent Sen Patrick Leahy.  He sold his own business in order to run for office*.

I have met him and I like him.  Granted, we don’t agree on every issue but I don’t agree with Leahy on any.

This week Len came out with another campaign ad titled “Record Scratch”.

“If you’re happy with this, you have your guy. I know we can do better.”

Yes, we can do better. We can do better than a 36 year incumbent.

But Aaron, it’s Vermont!!

Yeah, it’s Vermont … and Vermont has only elected one Democrat to the Senate. Ever. I’m not saying it will be easy for Len to beat the multi-million dollar war chest that Leahy has. On the contrary, it will be a very hard race to win.

Regardless, it is time to end this chapter in Vermont’s history how it began … with Patrick Leahy looking for a job.

To do so, it will take some record scratch. [hint hint]

Aaron B. Gardner

* I made an error above. Len is not using the money from selling his business to self fund. He sold his business because he realized that you can’t have a full time job and run for the Senate, that is, unless you are a 36 year incumbent.

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  • morstar150

    from itself and Patrick Leahy. Even if this guy doesn’t win it’s time to send a message to these entrenched washington thieves.

  • congressworksforus

    and some moola coming your way…

  • mboyle1988

    Saying Vermont has only elected one Democrat ever is a bit dishonest. It elected Republicans who were so liberal that they insulted the term RINO. Snowe was probably closer to Ann Coulter than Jim Jeffords politically. I’d rather focus my energies on McMahon and Raese, neither of whom you have mentioned much on this blog.

  • bradfromvermont

    As a guy on the ground here in Vermont watching thios campaign closely, it is imperative for the rest of the country to know how strong Britton is running up here. Check out his youtube ads and if you don’t laugh out loud at the “Billy” ads I’ll give you five dollars. Better yet, if you do like the message, go to www.lenbritton.com and kick in a few bucks or $100 and really get this guy in the game.

    Thanks Aaron for posting the “Record Scratch”….

  • eburke

    Oh, and btw, if you want to see a blog on McMahon and/or Raese, feel free to knock yourself out.

  • Aaron Gardner

    As far as Raese and McMahon, I live in Vermont not WV or Conn.

    One more point, Britton isn’t Jeffords.

  • dylanj

    a stupid question but does anybody know where the link to the archives for RS are? I can’t seem to find them.

  • mboyle1988

    I didn’t notice that this wasn’t from Neil/Moe. Thanks for giving the context. I support this guy obviously. I hope he pulls off a miracle a la Miller.

  • cactusjack

    should vote or whom should represent them by the Dems in DC. No Americans in any state do, but the independent streak of Vermont is rivalled by none*. Let us hope the Dems and Leahy make a slip up. They are getting rattled, they just might.

    *there are several states that like to claim they were once independent countries of their own, and IIRC four that actually can make the claim on the legal elements thereof. Vermont is one of them.

  • The_Rebel

    something I would pin my hopes on. For 30 years, they have continued to elect that socialist, Bernie Sanders. First, as Mayor of Burlington, then as Congressman, now as Senator. As bad as it is here in MA, I think we will elect a Republican congressman before Vermont elects a Republican Senator.

  • gr8ful

    Is it true there is a third party candidate that will take some votes from Leahy?

  • The_Rebel

    but they were only drawing 3% of the total in the last poll I saw about 2-3 months ago.

  • itsjoanne

    36 years in the Senate, it’s time he retires. I hope enough voters in Vermont agree with that. Len sounds like a good man. :)

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    …I’ll perpetuate this threadjack on his diary ;-)

    Try here:

    http://archive.redstate.com
    http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/username
    http://archive.redstate.com/user/username

    Obviously change username to who you’re looking for.

    Hey Aaron! Had you going didn’t I…

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    Good job on this diary, Aaron. All politics is local. :-)

    And every race is an important race in 2010.

  • bradfromvermont

    Dan Freilich is staying in the race as an Independent after he gathered 11% of the vote in the Primary aganist Leahy. He will pull votes from Leahy’s left (barely possible I know). Freilich is a huge single payer advocate and will pulll the looney progressive vote away from the Dem Leahy.

    There is a path for Victory for Britton. Thank you to the RedState readers for sending money, it makes all the difference in our small State. It doesn’t take milliions of dollars to run a Senate race in our small state of 620,000 people.

    Thank you RedStaters!

  • mobamablues

    Go WAAAY back….to the Achille Lauro….when terrorists murdered my neighbor, Leon Klinghoffer a disabled Jew that the cowards threw into the Mediterranean.

    RONALD REAGAN’s CIA used secret intelligence gathered from wiretaps of telephone lines of highly placed terrorist backers (Muammar Quadaffi?) to learn that the terrorists were going to be flying in a business jet in the Mediterranean. REAGAN SCRAMBLED NAVY F-14′s to FORCE THE JET DOWN at an Italian airfield,where the Italians took them into custody.

    AS NEWS OF THE SEIZURE WAS BREAKING LATE EDT, LEAHY DEMANDED THAT CIA GIVE HIM, AS A MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE, A FULL BRIEFING AT 4:00AM SO THAT HE COULD GO SHARE REAGAN’S LIMELIGHT ON THE “TODAY” SHOW!!!!

    LEAHY, IDIOT THAT HE IS, SPILLED THE BEANS ON NATIONAL TELEVISION!!! HE DISCLOSED SOURCES & METHODS OF THE ONE OF THE BEST INTELLIGENCE OPS OF THE REAGAN/CASEY ERA TO ANYONE WATCHING.

    That VERY SAME DAY, the wiretap DISAPPEARED!!! GONE!!! Pulled by the high value target.

    THAT’S PAT LEAHY!!!

    HE SHOULDD HAVE BEEN CENSURED AND HIS STUPID BUTT REMOVED AGES AGO!!!

    Where can I send a check to this guy???

  • mobamablues

    Here’s a link to the Achille Lauro…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Achille_Lauro

    Go to it BeDevilers! GO NAVY!

  • mobamablues

    And here’s MORE leaks that Leahy let go to the world….

    What a pity profanity is banned, or I would say what I really think of him…

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/01/pat_leahy_a_canary_in_a_data_m.html

  • bradfromvermont

    Checks can be sent to:

    Len Britton for Vermont
    P.O. Box 10
    Taftsville, VT 05073

    or visit www.lenbritton.com and click on the donate icon and use paypal!

  • rdelbov

    Len Britton–I hope he wins

    Any thoughts on Lt Gov Dubie?

  • camilo06

    than the current governor (Gov. Jim Douglass) and that may hurt him in Montpelier, Rutland, and Burlington. I personally like him, I saw him at a fundraiser in Burlington and I just think he’s great. However, the election will be in November, and you’ll have all the hippie undergrads from NY, NH, MA, and even PA being turned out to vote (hell, even my fellow grad students are a bunch of leftist). It is our responsibility to maximize conservative turnout in Burlington and the rest of the state, to ensure that Vermont make a wise choice, not only for gov, but also lt gov, the Senate, and the House, it may be a bit much to ask for the Attorney General and the state legislature, but that would be great too.

  • camilo06

    Thanks for bringing this up Aaron, Len and the full slate of Republicans need as much PR as possible in this state.

  • mboyle1988

    has led all the polls I’ve seen though by pretty healthy margins.

  • Coop

    http://www.lenbritton.com/

    53 Merchants Row
    Rutland, VT
    802-772-7043

    “Bail faster, Billy!”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlVO9pINcRA

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