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John S. Rodgers: “I want to bring regular people's voice back to the State…”

Featuring: John S. Rodgers, Republican | Lieutenant Governor of Vermont

Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show!

Published August 30, 2024 | Video Starts at 54:16

They operate in a bubble. They talk to each other, they talk to the well paid lobbyist and regular people have been cut out of the equation. And I want to bring regular people's voice back to the State House. And I also want to help digest what's going on in the legislation that's being pushed through the building. (54:16–54:20)

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Asserts a commitment to representing ordinary citizens in state government.

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John S. Rodgers

“I still live on the farm that my family settled back in the early 1800s.”
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“We have hemp and we still do some cannabis.”
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“Jasper Hill, Andersonville Farm. The cheese makers. Yeah, they rent a lot of our cropland and hay that for us.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 05:20-05:30
“In a lot of places pollinators are under threat.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 06:58-07:01
“In a lot of places, a lot of the grassland birds and song birds are under threat.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 07:00-07:06
“We have 379 acres.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 07:19-07:23
“I served for 16 years in the state house.”
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“They are creating a state that's completely unaffordable for regular people.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 10:05-10:10
“My grandchildren are not going to be able to make a living in the northeast kingdom and buy a house there.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 11:24-11:32
“Our houses at 5 and 600,000 seem like a bargain compared to what they cost in Connecticut.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 11:43-11:50
“The cost of building a house is outrageous.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 11:54-11:57
“They're still going to have over $600,000 in that house.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 12:13-12:18
“The Kingdom is this beautiful quiet place with lots of beautiful hills and wildlife and places to bike and hike and beautiful lakes.”
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“You can be here from Connecticut in four hours.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 13:25-13:29
“Most of them [schools] were built in the 50s and 60s.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 14:00-19:04
“I don't believe we've tested all the schools [for PCBs].”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 18:06-18:09
“It's not happening today [proper education funding].”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 18:37-18:44
“We know that we have deficient schools all around the state.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 18:55-19:01
“I think there's been 38 studies on education funding in, like, the last 20 years.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 19:11-19:18
“Everybody that's getting their property tax bill is upset.”
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“I really believe we need to start fresh with a clean slate [for education funding].”
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“There probably are some more schools that need to be closed.”
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“Isn't [Governor Phil Scott] the most popular governor in the country?”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 20:48-38:08
“There are cities that have a higher population than the state of Vermont and only have one supervisory union.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 21:24-21:31
“The entire system needs to be looked at from top to bottom, from infrastructure to employees to the structure of the supervisory unions.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 22:25-22:36
“The legislature has been afraid to make any cuts.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 23:50-23:53
“We can't keep a job for the sake of keeping a job when it becomes too expensive for Vermont taxpayers to afford.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 23:59-24:07
“I haven't heard [complaints about gender-specific terms in schools].”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 26:24-26:26
“Sometimes it happens in the legislature a lot where they'll waste a whole session on a bill that really doesn't matter that much.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 26:47-26:56
“Back when I was still in the house, they made all the changes to child care that drove so many of the folks that had been taking care of…”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 31:03-31:15
“The other oxymoron is that most of the child care workers really don't get paid a livable wage.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 33:28-33:37
“Your main jobs are presiding over the Senate and helping with the committee on committees, appointing people to their various committees…”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 34:36-34:46
“My hope is that the Republicans can pick up enough seats in the Senate so that we can sustain a veto.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 37:37-37:46
“They totally disrespected [Governor Phil Scott's] vetoes.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 38:11-38:15
“The net metering program is one of the most regressive programs I have ever seen implemented in Vermont.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 46:47-46:54
“It has cost Vermonters hundreds of millions of Dollars.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 46:53-46:58
“The majority of that has gone to wealthy energy developers.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 46:58-47:03
“Net metering when it was first implemented was at 21 cents a kilowatt hour.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 47:15-47:21
“We could buy Hydro Quebec power for six cents.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 47:21-47:26
“The cost of net metered power is just too high. It needs to be at market rate.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 47:32-47:41
“Department of Public Service did a study. They said the vast majority of net metering people are affluent white people.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 47:57-48:07
“Those energy developers all donate huge amounts of money to the people in the legislature that are forwarding these bills.”
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“It's there in black and white. It's on the financial disclosures.”
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“Public safety is the biggest issue people want to talk about when I'm on the campaign trail.”
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“We need to support our police and our judiciary and give them the tools they need to take drug traffickers and drug gangs and drug dealers…”
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“In a lot of places there's nothing enough police and they don't have enough tools.”
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“There's a revolving door with a lot of the retail theft that is driven by people who are addicted to the drugs.”
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“His business is off like 20, 20% because so many people have stopped going downtown Burlington.”
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“Years ago, I was part of the legislature when we passed a lot of criminal justice reforms to try to get nonviolent people out of our prisons…”
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“Nobody's pay has gone up as much as the cost of living.”
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“Since the pandemic democracy has left that building. They operate in a bubble.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 54:01-54:08
“I want to make sure that Vermonters understand it and, you know, break down the legal speak into terms that everybody can understand.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 54:28-54:36
“I want to take an active part in the Senate. I want to make sure good legislation is moving forward and bad legislation is stopped.”
Creemee Cast_ John Rodgers and Motor Show! | Uploaded August 30, 2024 | 55:15-55:24