Do you like when folks misrepresent your beliefs to others? Because that is what is happening here.

This is correct.

I read it. It seems to me that the Victory Fund spent money, but the $26,000 was contributed by mostly un-named individuals including Bankman-Fried. If you have a different interpretation, I'm all ears.

Something stinks here, but that is to be expected when dealing with politicians, as far as I can tell. I don't know why I keep getting surprised and disappointed.

All I can do is continue to vote against every incumbent in every election. Except Bernie. I like Bernie.

Now match your policy goals with Vermont's political climate.

I agree with many of your proposals but the issue with governments is they are governed by politicians. Vermont has a citizen legislature with no dedicated staff assigned to the legislators. The majority of whom are not educated enough or savvy enough to fully understand the ramifications of complex land use and zoning issues.

It is going to take small steps of improvement to get anywhere. This bill is a leap in terms of Vermont making progress. It's not perfect by any means but it is much much better than nothing.

It sounds like you and the other residents of the building disagree with your landlord's stance on the eviction control measure. While your landlord has the right to express their opinion, it may be uncomfortable for you and your fellow residents to see the sign displayed in a shared space.

One option would be to reach out to your landlord and express your concerns about the sign. You could explain how it makes you and the other residents feel, and ask if they would be willing to take it down. It's possible that your landlord may not realize how the sign is affecting you and the other tenants, and they may be willing to remove it to maintain a positive relationship with their tenants.

If your landlord is unwilling to remove the sign, you could also consider reaching out to local elected officials or advocacy groups that support the eviction control measure. They may be able to provide additional guidance or support, and they may also be able to connect you with other tenants who are facing similar issues.

Ultimately, it's important to remember that you and the other tenants have legal rights as renters, and you may be protected under local or state laws. You could consider reaching out to a local tenant's rights organization or legal aid clinic for more information and guidance.

Fraudulent political donations that absolutely impacted the outcome of the democrat primary election in Vermont is not trivial.

> May your dig be rock free.

I built a new garden last spring... Leveled the plot with a box blade and dug up all the rocks I could see. Then I drug a plow through it a couple times and pulled out every rock I could see. Then I dug the entire plot about 1.5 ft deep with an excavator, working through every scoop by hand pulling out every-single-rock. I leveled the ground again but somehow found more rocks. Finally, I tilled in a couple yards of compost, and managed to hit another bucket load worth of rocks... When I pulled up plants at the end of the season, guess what I found?

Planning on adding a fence this spring to the garden, and I fully expect to be digging out car size boulders that somehow appeared out of nowhere in the past 12 months...

In DC maybe. Becca has been open and available to the VT media leading up to and after her election.

Suddenly, she’s to busy and has to leave this national story for the spokesperson.

26k direct and another $1,000,000 dropped on your primary campaign. Yeah, it’s really bad optics.

Not sure what the OP is offering when his link is to a discredited former left wing “journalist” who’s blog is dedicated to sowing supposition and dissent among Vermonters.

Again, we can do better.

26k + 1million.

ReStore in Williston for second hand stuff.

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😂 now replaces Congress for Legal System and replace “running for Congress” with “access to Justice”. the hypocrisy is staggering. Do as I say, not as I do. Y’all really will regulate yourself out of everything and thank the politicians as they do it. You know what happens if you’re a civilians and this happens? You go to court, you get sued by the state and civil, your life is put on pause and still have to get paid to pay your lawyers.

This just shows me she’s just as bad as every other politician ever.

What camera/lens setup did you use to photograph this bird? Just curious.

😂 I met SBF a few times and never invested, nor did I in ANY exchange. Not your keys, not your crypto.

Politicians don’t give af about YOU! They only care if you have money to fund their campaigns or influence to pass legislation to help them.

Well she had no problem taking their money, but then again so did everyone else.

> Wrong! Contractors aren't making cheap housing because they literally can't due to current regulations.

It doesn't matter. If regulations allowed cheaper housing to be sold at a profit, developers will still target the highest margins first, which is going to be the more expensive units

It's a fraught legal issue. Makes sense not to make public statements about it and defer to lawyers. Standard best practice for guilty and not guilty parties, no?

Molly Gray, is that you?

And be sure to look for a new place to live when your lease is up if the landlord finds out who put up the opposing sign. Ugh.

Did you happen to read the article linked? It explains the situation pretty clearly. The money came from the LGBTQ Victory Fund

From the article:

> Silver reiterated what she and her boss have said for months: “The Balint Campaign has never had any contact with Mr. Bankman-Fried and has never solicited donations from him or his FTX associates. The campaign has no knowledge of how Mr. Bankman-Fried's political contributions were solicited or given.”

Also:

> We are keeping [fund from SBF and associates] in our sequestered account awaiting DOJ guidance on what to do,” Silver continued. “But we very much are looking to get this money back to the people who were harmed by this alleged fraud and are really hoping that the U.S. Attorney's Office can get to the bottom of what happened so that we can move forward.”

This was PAC money.

I agree. Eviction is sometimes the necessary remedy.

But I think tenants should have immediate and very real legal recourses for landlords who don't maintain properties to 100% habitable conditions, maintaining the entire property at code.

Tenants should not be forced to bear the risk of a landlords negligence. Ever. For even a moment. Not with shit railings. Not with crumbling steps. Not with loose floorboards. Not with bad plumbing, faulty wiring or a non-functioning boiler.

If I'm being told to understand that sometimes tenants are so horrible they need to be evicted?

Then you can understand that the bar for providing habitable habitation has fallen too low and landlords get away with massive, horrific abuses.

If you want to respect this relationship? Respect it. Because "it's a marketplace" doesn't fly in the modern era of morality when we're talking about basic roof-over-head dynamics in a grossly expensive market that's far outpacing wage growth. Not saying you don't. Maybe you're your town's one good landlord.

From my experiences renting in my youth, over 20 years ago, if landlord wasn't present on the property too that was an immediate massive increase in odds of "I don't fucking care." I cannot imagine its improved and the anecdotal proof I could offer from stories told doesn't support that it has either.

I may be mistaken, but isn't there a limit on donations from an individual, like under $3,000? And even then, aren't the donors required to identify themselves and their employer?

Told ya so on Aug 24th.

Food and vaccines are more important the crypto bros and tokens.

There are a number of local programs in the North East to double the spending power of federal food assistance money at local farmers' markets.

Since income-based food assistance is the monster provision in the Farm Bill, it might really be helpful to both local farmers and families if that funding came from the top instead of a hodgepodge of local organizations.

Lots of states get billions in pork for corn and soybean farmers, but that change would be something for Vermont farmers and families.