Oct 29, 2026 · 23 min · 10 segments
Martine Larocque Gulick, Democrat Incumbent Vermont State Senator - Chittenden Central District, joins Kurt & Anthony to discuss her re election campaign.
Martine Larocque GulickGuestKurtHostAnthonyHostMakes sense.
With, obviously, five days to go in the election, we know that, according to all the polls, there's a close race for governor.
Um, if the polls are right, we're going to be, you know, watching that one closely to see if it's Phil Scott getting reelected or is it Amanda Janu? Um, but let's speculate for a second that it's Amanda Janu is governor and, uh, Democrats are back with significant majorities, maybe pick up seats in the house and Senate.
They want to pick up seats.
You do on the Democratic side.
What, what will be the agenda? Um, do you think from your side for the next two years, what will, what will, what can people expect?
governor? If you guys are back and sort of in charge and you've got a Democrat governor working with you, what's the agenda at that point?
I mean, I honestly think the agenda is about making Vermont a more livable place for folks.
And investing in people, right? I think that we've heard time and time again from...
Amanda Janu and a lot of my colleagues as well that We need to start looking at health care reform in a big way.
I've heard so many of your guests lately, and I have been listening to your shows, talking about the cost of health care and how we've been nibbling around the edges and we've been trying to tweak insurance rates.
But until we can really get the cost of care down in the state of Vermont, we're just going to be living in the same environment.
I mean, I think you guys know that property taxes, that's a hot button issue.
education reform that looks not just at a new funding formula but looks at again bringing down the cost of delivering education those are those are you know really that that's the important piece you can plop a new foundation formula or funding formula on top of the system but until you bring costs down we're just we're just playing with numbers
how do we how do we bring costs down do you think
Well, for one thing, we need to look at governance, right? I've said this before on this show.
We can draw new lines on maps, but until we actually look at our governance structure, which is quite complicated in the state of Vermont, we have two systems as opposed to one.
Makes sense.
With, obviously, five days to go in the election, we know that, according to all the polls, there's a close race for governor.
Um, if the polls are right, we're going to be, you know, watching that one closely to see if it's Phil Scott getting reelected or is it Amanda Janu? Um, but let's speculate for a second that it's Amanda Janu is governor and, uh, Democrats are back with significant majorities, maybe pick up seats in the house and Senate.
They want to pick up seats.
You do on the Democratic side.
What, what will be the agenda? Um, do you think from your side for the next two years, what will, what will, what can people expect?
governor? If you guys are back and sort of in charge and you've got a Democrat governor working with you, what's the agenda at that point?
I mean, I honestly think the agenda is about making Vermont a more livable place for folks.
And investing in people, right? I think that we've heard time and time again from...
Amanda Janu and a lot of my colleagues as well that We need to start looking at health care reform in a big way.
I've heard so many of your guests lately, and I have been listening to your shows, talking about the cost of health care and how we've been nibbling around the edges and we've been trying to tweak insurance rates.
But until we can really get the cost of care down in the state of Vermont, we're just going to be living in the same environment.
I mean, I think you guys know that property taxes, that's a hot button issue.
education reform that looks not just at a new funding formula but looks at again bringing down the cost of delivering education those are those are you know really that that's the important piece you can plop a new foundation formula or funding formula on top of the system but until you bring costs down we're just we're just playing with numbers
how do we how do we bring costs down do you think
Well, for one thing, we need to look at governance, right? I've said this before on this show.
We can draw new lines on maps, but until we actually look at our governance structure, which is quite complicated in the state of Vermont, we have two systems as opposed to one.
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