This ought to speed things up in the senate.
Great - an 80 year old senator from a state with a Republican governor.
heâs also supposed to be leading the impeachment trial (itâs not supreme court justice this time)
all sorts of WAAF jfc
49-50 is a minority too right?
I think that is an auto special election for his seat.
Not for 6 months though
Yup,thatâll kill all progress for 6 months.
Governor can wait 6 months to have special election.
https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/fullchapter/17/053
Chuck Grassley (87) got COVID and nothing happened.
Writers inflicting maximum pain here.
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Vermontâs governor is going to run for Senate himself and win anyway at some point. Lol Vermont.
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Governor can actually appoint a republican during those 6 months.
Dear Dem politicians from deep blue states,
Maybe consider retiring before youâre 100 years old.
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Or make sure you donât elect Republican governorsâŚ
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leahy is barely older than bernie (who has already had a heart attack) and nobody here would call for him to retire
so like feinstein, etc they never retire unless theyâre forced out
Bernie is not a Dem, so he gets an exception.
if leahy died, they wouldnât have a majority so maybe itâs GRASSLEY?? JFC
Apparently the governor said he would replace Bernie with a democrat if his seat opened but who fucking knows. Awful having to sweat this.
A republican governor is going to appoint a democrat to keep the senate in democratic hands? Yeah fucking right.
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Itâs just so brutal and bizarre how frequently weâre sweating super old people not dying and how consequential it is when they do. What a dumb fucking system.
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doesnât vermont legislature have a dem super-majority? they could ram through a change that governor must appoint from a list (same as what they planned in MA). currently the law says specifically appointments can consider a party list but donât need to pick from it.
itâs ridic I just thought that hopefully they check to see if he got poisoned
what country am I in now? this world man
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And the governor can respond by saying âIâm just going to respect the democratic process. This is too important a decision for me to make. Iâm going to leave it to the hands of the voters in 6 months.â And just leave the seat vacant. I donât think they can force the governor to appoint.
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