Chips April 18th, 2016

Kammie Crawford, guest of Colie (Kammie is a student at Castleton and intern of Colie's)

Speaker:Gubernatorial Candidate, Bruce Lisman along with his campaign manager, Shaun Sholdice

 

Mike bragged for the soccer tournament his team played in over the weekend. They took second place. Also, Mike fined himself for being in The Herald as a "celebrity server" at The Mountain Top, but he didn't get an reservations and fined himself.

Maria drove to and from Florida with her dog for a dog show. Her dog won best in her class!

 

Will announced Rotary Park Clean-Up for Saturday, May 7th 9-1pm. Talk to Will to sign up

Mark reminded everyone to introduce themselves to our newest members, Andrea (not so new) and Russ.

Mark also told us some Board Updates: 3 requests for donations came in last week that were approved. KMF, RISE, and Farm to Ballet.

 

$750 in the big pot and a lot less in little ;-)  

Steve won the little, but not the big'en

 

Bruce Lisman is running for Governor. He was born in Burlington's North End and was in the financial services business for many years. He managed over 2,300 employees at one point. His father was a school teacher and his mother was an assistant at UVM. His father believed in hard work and giving back. Bruce began working at the age of 15 as a dishwasher. He went on after college to work as a file clerk on Wall street, but didn't earn enough to get by so bartended and drove a taxi part time. Over the years, he moved up the ranks in the financial world and went on to run a 2.3 billion dollar company. His philosophy of treating a client like they really matter helped him in his business success and he believes that is how the state should be treating the tax payers. Lisman feels that Shumlin is incompetent and we need change. Shumlin's administration grew the budget by $700 million in just 6 years with a population of only 6-700k people. That equates to each person paying over $1,000 more a year. There are many unfunded promises on the table. Lisman isn't a politician and isn't trying to be one. He feels that insiders are what are causing a lot of the problems and he wants to break that cycle. He believes we need to fund programs that will address real problems like the opiate crises, strengthening the judicial system, and strengthen the ties and communications between the government and business. He wants the state to start treating businesses like they are clients of the state.