SYMINGTON STATEMENT ON DOUGLAS' DESPERATE BLAME GAME

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Monday July 28, 2008                                                802-651-7141 or 760-8832

SYMINGTON STATEMENT ON DOUGLAS' DESPERATE BLAME GAME

This is just ridiculous.  Vermonters didn't buy Jim Douglas' blame shifting the last hundred times he's tried it and they're not going to believe it now either. Vermonters know it's the Governor who should be held accountable for the worst rate of job growth in New England, the highest unemployment rate in 14 years and his other economic failures.

No amount of self-serving campaign rhetoric will change the fact that Jim Douglas has run our economy into the ground and he has no new ideas to turn it around. 

I'm offering new ideas to really get our economy moving again.  For example, my energy plan will create thousands of good jobs in renewable energy and home grown heating products.  I'm going to attract companies to locate here by promoting what makes Vermont unique instead of bashing our state as the Governor has done for six years. 

Vermonters are finally catching on to the fact that Jim Douglas talks a good game but doesn't get results.  We can't afford two more years of excuses.