Ex. Gov Dean on Shumlin Transition Team

[YankeeLeft7x]

Source: WPTZ-TV-Channel 5, Vermont

WPTZ-TV-Channel 5, Vermont

Ex. Gov Dean on Shumlin Transition Team
Gov. Elect Reveals Lineup

POSTED: 1:13 pm EDT November 4, 2010

MONTPELIER, VT -- Gov.-elect Peter Shumlin is forming a transition team to assemble a cabinet and help to write a budget to present to the Legislature is January after he takes office....Former Gov. Howard Dean and Elizabeth Bankowski will co-chair the transition team. The team will also include Susan Bartlett, outgoing chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who will work on budget issues. Shumlin defeated Bartlett and three other Democrats in the August gubernatorial primary....Shumlin also commented on the announcement that Entergy Corp. is trying to sell the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. He says he still believes the plant should close down in 2012 when its license expires.

http://www.wptz.com/r/25634248/detail.html

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[HereSince1628]

1. Go Howard! Serve your state! n/t

[handmade34]

2. I expect good things out of Shumlin n/t

[iandhr]

4. I met Shumlin

he is the real deal

[handmade34]

5. I believe it

I have not met him, I'm not in state enough to hobnob with anyone anymore, but I've heard and read good things. ...and I got really bad vibes from Dubie... so glad he didn't win

[karynnj]

3. That is really good news

Late last summer, when we vacationed in VT, we were surprised that the Republican candidate for governor was citing some program of Dean's as similar to one of his. This has to be the best indication that Dean is appreciated for what he did and his ideas there. This announcement proves he can go home again. (Not to mention, I think his wife is still a practicing physician in the Burlington area.)

This might be a good time - for those in blue states (without red governors :( ) - to try to make things better at the state level.

[DFW]

6. The transition team that Howard SHOULD have been on:

The transition team that put together Obama's cabinet and inner circle of political advisers in the fall of 2008!

Howard should not only have been on that team, he should also been in the cabinet and a member
of Obama's inner circle.

In a position of power, Howard would have caught the evil wind blowing that gave us last Tuesday's
hurricane, and would have taken effective preventive measures long ago.

Instead, Rahm did basically like Dick Cheney when Cheney moved Halliburton's world HQ to Dubai before
the end of his (oh, sorry, Bush's) administration: he got out just before the mess he left bubbled
back up from the waste disposal.

One can't help but wonder if Obama isn't asking himself this question: Rahm oversaw things for two years.
We got some good stuff done, but we still got our asses kicked in the midterms. Howard Dean managed to
get us not only a majority in both houses in the 2006 midterms, but also got me into office in a landslide
in 2008. Maybe it's time to ask him back for another curtain call?

[trud]

7. "One can't help but wonder if Obama isn't asking himself this question"

No, I think Obama has no clue as to what is wrong. We worked our behinds off for and elected someone who is out of his depth.

Don't get me wrong, he is far far better than the Republicans, but far far less than he could have been.