Leahy Decision Likely Tomorrow

[applegrove]

Leahy Decision Likely Tomorrow

November 14, 2021 at 6:46 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 78 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/11/14/leahy-decision-likely-tomorrow/

"SNIP......

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who is 81 years old and up for re-election next year, has called a news conference for tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. ET in Vermont.

.....SNIP"

[question everything]

1. And Sanders is 80. Vermont may want to have younger blood

[dem4decades]

2. as long as they have s Republican Governor, we should take care to protect those 2 Senate seats.

I like Leahy but when he got ill when he was hearing the 2nd Impeachment it was scary and forewarning.

[NYC Liberal]

6. VT requires a special election within 6 months.

So, of course we need to protect them, but any "damage" would be fairly limited if something unexpected happened.

[tavernier]

3. Off subject but when I visited Vermont a few weeks ago

I discovered that within the boundaries of the entire state there were three public toilets.

Perhaps Joe’s infrastructure bill could help out with this, unless they are not particularly interested in catering to tourism, but hey, coming from a tourism saturated state, I sympathize.

[2naSalit]

4. Were they indoors?

I recall when rest areas in the great lakes states were outhouses with a breeze, even in winter. It was pretty miserable but at least it was something. It's been decades since I've been to Vermont.

[tavernier]

9. Yes, but not heated.

[2naSalit]

10. Yikes.

[JI7]

5. Unless they really enjoy it and would miss it more than they

would enjoy retirement I can't see why they would want to continue there at this age.

And in this case the seat is safe for Democrats.

But it's up to them.

[rpannier]

7. Safe unless the Gov runs

Hes pretty popular in VT
I don't think he'd run, for the same reason Sununu didn't --It's a headache and a step down
You never know

[Vinca]

8. Leahy is a very talented photographer. I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to enjoy his

art rather than continue to be stuck in the black hole of the Senate. I imagine Peter Welch would run for the seat and he's been quite popular as a Congressman so he'd have a good chance of winning it.