Francis McFaun

Deb Richter is busy. When PolitickerVT.com tried to schedule an interview with the one-time would-be lieutenant governor candidate, she wrote in an email that her 7:30 a.m. morning commute was the best way to pin her down. "I doubt I will get a break during my ‘lunch hour,'" Richter wrote.

Having made her decision not to run for lieutenant governor earlier this week, the Cambridge physician says she is relieved not having to divide her time between her patients and a "horrendous schedule of campaigning."