As I’ve crisscrossed Vermont the last few months, listening to community leaders and Vermonters from all walks of life, I’ve heard both frustration and optimism. Vermonters are frustrated by rising health insurance premiums, the scarcity of affordable homes to own and rent, seemingly intractable homelessness and public safety problems, and brutal property tax increases. Many of those same people are optimistic, too, that we can do better. I feel the same.
I look forward to using my experience - which includes four-plus years as the Deputy State Auditor, a decade developing hundreds of units of affordable housing, and service as the president of the board of Vermont’s largest non-hospital primary care organization - to hold government accountable to make progress on the bread-and-butter issues that matter most to Vermonters.