Political-phile that you are, if you heard the news that Skip Vallee, avid Vermont Republican, was coming home from his ambassadorship in Slovakia, you might begin to wonder if Vallee has any interest in running for political office once he gets back on terra-america.
There are, after all, some vacancies in the Republican slate. Say, for Congress. Maybe for other offices, depending on the plans of certain other people.
You would be wrong.
After 2 1/2 years living in the Little White House on the hill overlooking Bratislava, Vallee is coming home next week, but he'll be returning to the business world not the political arena, he told me today. "I will not be running for anything," he said.
That doesn't mean he won't be paying attention to politics. "I'll try to be helpful to my friend, Governor Douglas," he said.
- Terri Hallenbeck
