Pork, towels, scammers, former govs, vets and one lucky reporter.
Here’s the Scoreboard for the week of Friday, August 23:
Winners:
Pork Tornados — Sen. Leahy rolled through Northfield and White River Junction Thursday and left a trail of federal largess in his wake.
Vets, state workers and the state budget — All three dodged a bullet this week when the feds inspected the Vermont Veterans’ Home and gave it a passing grade, sparing it a loss in Medicare and Medicaid funding. Runner-up winner: Sen. Bernie Sanders, who used his perch as Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman to press the feds on funding.
Rosetta Stone — Gov. Peter Shumlin’s gonna have to brush up on his Mandarin before traveling to China next month to sell visas for cash — ahem, I mean, seek overseas investment for job-creating projects in Vermont.
Ted Brady — After 13 years on Sen. Patrick Leahy’s staff, the loyal staffer’s in line for a plum federal patronage post: director of the USDA’s Vermont and New Hampshire rural development office.
Solar City — Rutland will be brighter than Vegas by the time Green Mountain Power’s done with it.
John Dillon — The Vermont Public Radio reporter went canoeing on Mirror Lake and passed it off as work. We’d never try that!
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