Mastodawn

I am cautiously optimistic about Amanda Janoo running for #VTGovernor, but as I've already said, I want to see concrete policy proposals, not vague ideations.

#VTDems need to wake up to the new realities of our nation and the challenges we actually face as a state in it.

#GunControl is a non-starter, so ban it from your vocabulary. We need #LandValueTax and #PublicBanking, first and foremost. We need #urbanism and #redevelopment.

#Vermont #VT #VTpol #VTpoli

https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/amanda-janoo-announces-bid-for-vermont-governor/

Amanda Janoo Announces Bid for Vermont Governor

She is the first Democrat to step forward to challenge Gov. Phil Scott this year.

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Gemma Seymour

Vermont is in desperate need of realistically actionable plans for modernizing our relationship to Nature so that we can build a comfortable, survivable, sustainable future.

That starts with setting the conditions for eliminating motor vehicles from our transportation plans, revitalization of our town and city centers through incentivizing the replacement of outdated/outmoded buildings, and complete overhaul of public education and public utilities to cope with the demands of the 21st Century.

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Gemma Seymour Mar 10

The two largest sectors for consumption of energy resources are transportation and building heating, air conditioning, and ventilation. Vermont is among the worst offenders in these regards in America on a per capita basis, because we have allowed motor vehicle dependent rural sprawl and have the oldest building stock in the nation.

VT cannot afford to serve public education and public utilities to every dirt road up a hill, when only a very small fraction of Vermonters actually farm.

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Paul SomeoneElse Mar 10

Better public transpo would light up vermont. (i think)

I'd love to see more apartment complexes too.
I know people are scared of them, but our environment
with lots of river valleys is good for apartment
buildings especially with good public trasnportation.
I'd love to live in a small apartment on a good
public bus line. (i mean trains would be great too ...)

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Gemma Seymour Mar 10

@pkw Yes! We absolutely need to build more apartment buildings in our downtowns and connect them with public transit, especially in the towns that are already transportation hubs, like all the towns with Amtrak stations.

I'm not worried about people who are "scared of apartments", because no one is going to demand they live in them. I want to provide them for the people who *do* want them, in the places where it makes the most sense to put them—in our population centers and downtown cores.