To the editor: Chase has integrity, compassion and should be re-elected to State House
The Chester Telegraph | Oct 14, 2024 | Comments 2
I am delighted to support Heather Chase, a person of integrity and compassion, in her re-election for state representative for the people in the towns of Athens, Chester, Grafton and Windham.
Heather has served us well in Montpelier. As a nurse and a mother, she is a champion of the rights of a woman to make her own health-care decisions. In the face of increased school taxes, she has supported the homeowners in her district for tax relief all the way to Gov. Phil Scott. She voted to make child care more affordable, which increases the employment opportunities for working parents.
Don’t be misled by the disinformation and false statements from her opponents. Heather does not support a carbon tax and the Vermont legislature has not voted to raise heating oil costs.
As a former member of the state legislature and more recently sitting with Heather as members of the Chester Select Board, I know the hard work and attention that serving our communities requires. Heather Chase has done a good job during her years of representing all of the citizens of her community to bring solutions to the many challenges we face at an acceptable cost.
I have already cast my vote for Heather Chase for state representative. I hope you will too.
Leigh Dakin
Former state representative
Chester
Filed Under: Commentary • Letters to the Editor
I have a problem with the child care tax that has been put on our weekly pay checks.Our employer pays the bulk of it but us consumers pay 100% of it. Employer passes it to goods or labor. This tax just got put in place and Heather is 100% for this tax as it is. She has stated that she wants to increase this tax. She will if reelected.Anyone can fix a problem by taking 100% money needed from tax payers. We need someone who has ideas to fix problems with out picking tax payers pockets! This tax will go up and up. Better ways are out there. Vote for them.
“Heather does not support a carbon tax and the Vermont legislature has not voted to raise heating oil costs.”?
Heather’s voting record, as well as those of every elected representative, is a matter of public record.
https://vermontdailychronicle.com/veto-override-roll-calls-2024/ The legislative debate, or lack of balanced debate, over the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Heat Standard has been a major news story in the media for quite some time. It is also a matter of public record that the Vermont Conservation Law Foundation has brought a lawsuit against the VT Agency of Natural Resources for failure to meet the climate change goals set out in the GWSA. The estimated cost of meeting those goals is 17 billion dollars to be paid by the Vermont taxpayer which has been estimated to raise the cost of heating fuels another $3.29 per gallon.
Now that an election is upon us and that many Vermont voters are wide awake and unhappy with what the legislature has been doing the new strategy by the super majority appears to be to blatantly gaslight Vermonters by telling them that none of this is happening. Will the voters fall for this. We will find out on November 5th.