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6.26.2007

 

Compromising positions

With politics fighting like a magnetic force against it, what are the prospects of a compromise on the energy bill before the July 11 veto session?

In case you missed it, that's a topic we explored in today's paper.

Is it in the governor's interest to compromise? Could his base of supporters live happily ever after without the bill? If there is a stalemate, Democrats will surely try to make the governor pay at the polls by saying he doesn't care about global warming or the state's energy independence. Will that argument stick?

Is it in the Legislature's interest to compromise? Some very much want the "other stuff" in the bill - renewable energy incentives, goup net metering that allows small clusters to generate their own power and sell the excess to the grid. But by compromising, do the Democrats water things down beyond their own liking?

What is in the best interests of Vermont? Oh, that old thing.

- Terri Hallenbeck

Comments:
Shumlin's only interest is to make this an election issues.

He will only compromise if it means pushing the issue to January, so he can drag the issue out to the next election.

There will be promises of compromise, but not real effort - its all about dragging the issue out as long as possible. Shumlin would much rather be talking about global warming next election than property taxes.
 
In fairness, Governor Douglas's only interest is in making this an election issue, too.
 
"Shumlin's only interest is to make this an election issues"

Hardly. This bill would only serve to help get him defeated. Every opponent of Douglas gets nicknamed with some sort of Rovian tax slogan.

The democrats are just in too much of a hurry. They should simply switch funding and take VY to the task at a later date.
 
That's sackless.
 
perhaps, but why not pick your battles. Besides VY is money in the bank. Its not going anywhere.
 
Oh, it's "sackless" NOT to stick to the scheme of slamming VY with a new, confiscatory tax?
 
Shumlin needs it to be his issue if he is to become Governor.
 
If Shumlin was ever electable statewide, he destroyed it this session with his erratic, two-faced, ego-maniacal behavior. It's not about what's good for the people of Vermont, or even what's good for the Democratic Party (remember when he through the Speaker under the bus on impeachment), it's about what's best for Peter at any given moment. I think almost everyone in Vermont sees that now. He was elected back into the State Senate in November, 2006 after a four year absence. But it only took from January, 2007, when the Legislature reconvened, until now, for him to ruin himself in such a short, intense manner.
 
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