Looks like former Ambassador Peter Galbraith is running for governor for sure.
The latest sign? Galbraith just sent out an e-mail to Democrats around the state announcing that he is giving "serious consideration" to becoming a candidate for governor and criticizing the incumbent Republican, Jim Douglas, for "six years of stagnation."
In the e-mail, Galbraith also discloses he has created a fund along with the state party called the Vermont Leadership Fund to, as he puts it, "support Democratic leaders on all levels around the state, and cultivate new leaders who will help build Vermont's future."
Party officials say the fund is not a candidate PAC, but clearly having Galbraith as the face of the fund is a signal he wants to be a player on the Vermont political scene this year. For a look at the full text of the e-mail, click
HERE.
Galbraith, the son of the famed economist John Kenneth Galbraith, is best known as an international diplomat, as a U.S. ambassador to Croatia in the 1980s and a U.N. ambassador to East Timor in the 1990s. He's also written a well-regarded book on Iraq called "The End of Iraq." But the guy's got electoral politics in his blood: As a 20-something in the 1970s, he was chair of the Vermont Democratic Party.
There are other Ds thinking of taking the plunge, like Sen. John Campbell. But only Galbraith, with this move, has taken it to the next level.
-- Sam Hemingway
