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"I have to rip up my speech," joked [Richard Tarrant]. But then he got back "on message." He pointed out the morning paper had reported that he, Richard Tarrant, had been "the first to accept" an invitation to speak. "And it blew your minds," said the Republican corporate exec to the liberal stop-the-genocide crowd with a slight air of jock sarcasm.
"As I go around the state, and I do that a lot," said Jimbo the other day, "I feel good about the reception I'm getting from Vermonters. There's a lot of support and appreciation. I feel very good about the coming campaign, but I don't take it for granted.""All presidents in recent history have had bumps along the road in about the sixth year of their presidencies," said Vermont's leading Bush-Cheney supporter. "I don't think there's anything unusual about that."See the full content of this document
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Tarrant's Real Target
He's already outspent every candidate in Vermont history - more than $3 million - and it's his first campaign for office. But despite the tapping of his vast personal fortune, estimated to be in the $300 million range, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Tarrant is getting little traction. In fact, we get calls from Vermonters ticked off by Tarrant's prerecorded telephone messages, oversized campaign banners and endless TV commercials.
In the latest public poll, Richie Rich was almost 40 points behind the frontrunner, Independent U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders, the former mayor of Burlington. Sanders, a living legend of the left, has already expressed his confidence that t...See the full content of this document
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