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10.01.2007

 

Bound for Vietnam

I ran into Rep. Rachel Weston yesterday. The first-term Democrat from Burlington is headed to Vietnam for a couple of weeks this month, in the same program that took Vermont Democratic Party Executive Director Jill Krowinski to the Philippines this summer.

It’s the prestigious and cool sounding American Council of Young Political Leaders, who conduct two-week international exchange programs. The program takes "emerging leaders" aged 25 to 40 to show them firsthand the political and cultural dynamics of other countries, according to its Web site.

Weston, 26, said U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy nominated her. Council spokesman Mike Garretson said Leahy nominated her "based on her stature as a rising political star in the State of Vermont and her potential to assume higher office."

Weston will be among a group of six, led by Oklahoma Rep. Dennis Adkins, R-Tulsa, studying the e Vietnamese political system, talking about international issues and making connections with Vietnamese counterparts from Oct. 11-25.

Other than Krowinski, other Vermont alumni of the program are: State Sen. Vincent Illuzzi, state Rep. Mary Morrissey (R-Bennington), Gov. Jim Douglas and Rep. Peter Welch.

Weston noted that she has a fair number of Vietnamese immigrants in her district, people who might have more than a casual interest in the state of affairs in Vietnam.

- Terri Hallenbeck

Comments:
Absolutely no one cares that one of Burlington's state reps is going on a so-caled education tour to Vietnam.
 
More right-wing hatred.
 
One more Vermont boondoogle. We are pathetic.
 
Who is paying for this trip? Smells like another Bernie Sanders reward for loyalty. (with our tax dollars, of course)
 
Was it a boondoggle when Jim Dougals did it too?
 
Typical conservative diatribe - 6 people were named as going to this (5 already completed) --- 3 of the 6 (50%) are Republicans (Illuzzi, Morrissey, and Douglas).

Give me a break - all it is with you conservatives is how to slam democrats.
 
"Give me a break - all it is with you conservatives is how to slam democrats."

That remark must have been made by Shumlin, who spent the last year as senate pro tem slamming the governor every single day.
 
Gov Douglas, Jason Gibbs, Neale Lunderville, Jim Barnet, and Rob Roper have been the most political partisan hacks in the statehouse ever!
 
Rachel rocks. She does us proud.
 
Yeah, she rocks. Let's all just hold hands and close our eyes and breathe out the "bad air" and everything will be all right. Oh, and we'll have to raise taxes, too.
 
No one really cares.
 
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