That said, there were plenty of other winners and losers this week. So, without further ado, here’s The Scoreboard for the week of Friday, February 15:
Winners:
The Vermont Senate — Love S.77 or hate it, the Vermont Senate conducted itself in fine form this week. Sure, debate dragged on and tensions ran high, but for the most part senators kept things civil and thoughtful. Has the Senate learned how to behave?
Sen. John Campbell — The Senate President Pro Tem garnered praise from S.77 backers for bringing a bill he disliked to the floor for an up-or-down vote. He also got his way, for the most part, by gutting the legislation.
Headline writers — Nothing like a bill called “death with dignity” to get the headline-writing juices flowin’. Good thing it’s still alive… Get it?
Morris & DeMag — Faced with steep odds after Tuesday’s 17-13 vote, the anti-S.77 lobby shop got the job done, dividing and conquering the bill’s supporters from its wafflers.
Sen. Peter Galbraith’s ego — Who knew it could get any bigger?!
Fiddlehead — It beat out kale as Vermont’s fave veggie, according to an admittedly unscientific online poll by WCAX. Wait, Fiddlehead‘s a vegetable? I thought it was one of them Gucci beers!
Vermont Press Bureau alums — Former Statehouse scribe Tracy Schmaler is leaving her job as top flack for the Department of Justice to join David Axelrod’s new firm, the Washington Post and CNN reported. That means Schmaler, who once worked for Sen. Patrick Leahy too, will no longer have to utter the words “Fast and Furious.”
Vermont newspapers — Several Green Mountain rags took home top prizes at last weekend’s New England Newspaper & Press Association awards in Boston. The biggest winners? Brattleboro’s The Commons, Addison Independent, Saint Albans Messenger, Stowe Reporter, and Milton Independent.
Losers after the break…
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