House Speaker Gaye Symington, D-Jericho, has made no secret of her support for Hillary Clinton. Turns out she's co-chair of the Clinton campaign in Vermont with former Gov. Madeleine Kunin.
Tomorrow they will unveil what the campaign has been or will do in Vermont over the next couple of weeks to try to put Vermont in Hillary's column rather than Barack Obama's.
Rep. Kathy Keenan, D-St. Albans, will participate in the event/conference call to explain the grassroots campaign for Clinton that has been organized in the northern part of the state.
Is this eleventh hour effort for Clinton going to work? Who is going to do the heavy lifting? Symington and Keenan have day jobs for most of the next two weeks at the Statehouse.
Momentum was already building for Obama, with a number of other high profile Democrats taking up his cause weeks ago. The list includes Sen. Patrick Leahy, Treasurer Jeb Spaulding, Attorney General Bill Sorrell, and, in the Statehouse, Senate President Pro Tempore Peter Shumlin, D-Windham. Obama even has the state's ice cream men -- Ben and Jerry.
-- Nancy Remsen
