Updated 5:08 p.m. Gov. Phil Scott on Wednesday vetoed a bill to double legislative salaries by 2027, calling it unfair given the additional costs lawmakers.
Anne Sosin, a public health researcher at Dartmouth College who lobbied lawmakers to extend the motel program, called it “obscene” that Democrats would fundraise “off the backs of the thousands of Vermonters they ve just voted to un-shelter.”
The visit organized by Rep. Esme Cole, D-Hartford, one of H.165’s sponsors was part of a late-session push to get the legislation over the finish line.
A who's who of Vermont politicians sipped Citizen Cider and traded small talk in a crowded Montpelier hotel conference room last Thursday, near a poster.