Gemma Seymour
NCCPRIt doesnโt get much attention in #childwelfare circles or local media but progressive little Vermont tears apart families at a rate that would make Donald Trump proud https://www.nccprblog.org/2024/11/progressive-little-vermont-tears-apart.html #fostercare #childabuse #vtpoli, #vtleg, #vt
#VTpol For that matter, it's no secret that #Vermont prefers to send Democrats to Washington, but right now the #VT Democratic Party has a dearth of viable candidates to replace our current delegation. Bernie Sanders needs to step down, and Peter Welch is no spring chicken either. Assuming Becca Balint is the shoo-in to replace Bernie, there's no identifiable candidate to replace Becca, even though the Dem/Prog coalition has recently held a supermajority in the #VTleg.
Gemma โญ๏ธ๐ฐ๐บ๐ธ ๐ต๐ญ ๐Let me just be clear: I live on high ground in a town center. I am in no way affected personally by any of the #flooding damage in #Vermont, save for that my tax money will go to fixing things that shouldn't be fixed. I am personally benefitting from the #Act18 implementation process, my .org is part of the #DEI watchdog process, and it's part of my paycheck.
So, I'm not exactly an uninterested party, either. I'm just a #VTer #WoC who advocates for sensible #LandPolicy #Urbanism. #VTpol #VTleg
#Vermont is in the middle of the #ClimateCrisis. The future is here, the #ClimateCatastrophe destruction is happening even as I write this. #VT is out of time for debate.
I hate the idea of bailing out people who made bad choices, but political expedience now wins out. We will all benefit immeasurably in the end.
We're bickering over #Act250 #Act18, arguing school consolidation and broadband up #flooding dirt roads when the #ClimateCataclysm is literally upon us.
Public money planned to be invested in continued expansion of #RuralInfrastructure, like #broadband communications and the maintenance and clearing of rural #roads must be immediately cut off and redirected toward #resettlement of people caught in newly flood prone areas or areas likely to be isolated by our inability to afford to subsidize their choice of pastoral lifestyles.
I know this sounds harsh to some. Reality is harsh.
#VTpol #VTleg #VT #Vermont #Flooding #ClimateChange #Urbanism
The past 13 yrs since #HurricaneIrene decimated #Vermontโespecially recent years of continued #floodingโshow beyond all reasonable doubt #VT must radically change #LandPolicy, our relationship to #Nature and #development #redevelopment of our built #environment.
#Vermonters must immediately, rapidly consolidate #population into existing town and city centers. We must deconstruct newly flood prone areas. We must abandon rural #infrastructure entirely.
Save Standard Time๐จ #VTLeg Rep Seth Chase files H-329 for permanent Daylight Saving Time. Referred to Gen/Housing Committee, chaired by Steven Thomas, Robin Chesnut-Tangerman, Kathleen James.
Permanent DST would delay sunrise to 8:31am. It cost lives in 1974. American Medical Association, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Bloomberg Opinion, and more oppose pDST, endorse permanent Standard Time instead.
Find your Vermont legislators here, tell them NO on H-329 (permanent EDT), YES on H-267 (permanent EST): https://legislature.vermont.gov/people/
#VTLeg HB-267 to end Daylight Saving Time by permanent Standard Time in local pact with MA, NH, & NY is filed, thanks to Reps Tristan Roberts, Carl Demrow, Anne Donahue, Leslie Goldman, & Jubilee McGill! ๐ Bill is referred to General & Housing Committee, chaired by Reps Thomas Stevens, Robin Chesnut-Tangerman, & Kathleen James. ๐ Find your legislators here, tell them to support! https://legislature.vermont.gov/people/