“Six years,” Carr said, when asked why he is leaving after three terms in office. “It’s been long enough.”
Carr intends to devote more time to his work as a small business consultant. “A friend of mine calls me a ‘CFO in a box,'” he said. “A chief financial officer that a small business wouldn’t have. I’m a commercial lender by background. I can come into a business and say ‘Here’s what I see’ because it’s the same thing their lender would see.”
Carr’s wife Jane is a paraeducator; his retirement from the legislature, he said, will allow them to truly enjoy the summertime. “Those things they say about having Mondays off as a legislator, or having time between sessions, is not true,” he said with a chuckle.
The news comes on the same day that Rep. Helen Head (D-South Burlington), chair of the House General, Housing and Military Affairs Committee, revealed her intention to step down at the end of her term.
A total of three House committee chairs have announced they will not seek reelection; the third is Rep. David Sharpe (D-Bristol) of the House Education Committee.
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Steve was a friend of mine when I lived in Brandon and went to school there, he was a great guy