Meet the Candidates: Matt Dunne

A former State Senator and Head of Community Affairs for Google

Meet the Candidates: Susan Bartlett

State Senator from Lamoille County

Autumn Harvest

A special thanks to Senators Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders for attending and to Congressman Peter Welch who sent greetings but could not attend.

Meet the Candidates: Deb Markowitz

Our Secretary of State Deb Markowitz

Meet the Candidates: Doug Racine

State Senator from Chittenden County

Meet the Candidates: Peter Shumlin

State Senator from Windham County

The Digest

Half the Sky: Op-Ed by VDP Chairwoman Judy Bevans

There is no lack of crises and major policy debates for Americans to grapple with: two wars, financial reconstruction (the experts tell us we’re no longer in a recession), job restoration or re-invention, healthcare reform. And those are just the largest and most immediate ones occupying Congress and the President – and all of us who choose to be engaged in the discussion.

Today in Vermont

Clips from around the State

Senators Introduce Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Statement from DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse on RNC Fund Raising Document

If you had any doubt, any doubt whatsoever, that the Republican Party has been taken over by the fear-mongering lunatic fringe, those doubts were erased today. The Republican Party, which barely 20 percent of Americans will even admit they belong to anymore, seems hell bent on damaging their battered brand even further by engaging in the most despicable kind of imagery, tactics and rhetoric imaginable. This type of politics at all cost approach to our public discourse is what the American people are sick a