Peter Shumlin recently brazenly misused the people of Vernon, a town we both have the privilege to serve. It's not the first time and probably won't be the last, and it says a good deal about the man who wants to be governor.
For the past year, Senator Shumlin has been doing everything he can to chase out of town a great neighbor: the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant.
So I was appalled, but not really surprised, when Peter Shumlin stood before the TV news cameras on Oct. 12 and shed crocodile tears on behalf of my fellow Vernon residents, victims of what he called “the worst environmental disaster in the history of the state of Vermont.”
Unless his expert advice about tritium mediation was followed, the town of Vernon's water supply would be dangerously, irreversibly irradiated. People would get sick. They would be unable to sell their worthless homes. All would be lost, lost, lost!...