Mark Shepard reports that he brought on a new campaign manager with more experience, making for a mutual departing between the candidate and Guy Page.

The new guy, Paul Cook, lives in Cornwall, teaches political science at the Community College of Vermont and worked on Tim Philbin's 1992 congressional campaign, in which the candidate won the Republican primary and came in second to Bernie Sanders in the general election.

"He knows the nuts and bolts of what we need to do," said Shepard, the Bennington County state senator who is fighting an uphill battle for the Republican nomination.

- TH