* Aiming Hat Toward the Ring

Paul Keane, Independent Candidate

for the Vermont House

from Hartford

I subscribe to the Fred Tuttle Plan.  I’m too old, at  age 67, to waste my time saying what people want me to say in order to be popular or get elected to political office. 


I will kiss no babies and I will spend not a plug nickel on campaigning.

The late Fred Tuttle, The Man with a Plan

If you want a representative who speaks his cantankerous mind, then I’m that guy.  


If you don’t, then vote for somebody else. 

Paul Keane, the skunk at the picnic

On Gay Marriage:

Vermonters have always done the right thing. I’m sure they will conclude sooner or later that it is unfair to deny any particular group the opportunity to make divorce lawyers  even richer than they already are.

On Closing Vermont Yankee Nuclear Reactor:

A meltdown at Vermont Yankee, according to anti-nuclear expert Dr. Helen Caldicott, M.D., would contaminate beyond human occupation for decades, the 100 miles from Vermont Yankee, up the border of Vermont and New Hampshire to White River Junction, and beyond, including all of Dartmouth College.

Even Yale or Princeton could not have devised a more demonic strategy for removing Dartmouth  from the Ivy League.

PS: Let’s not forget also the hundred miles of permanently contaminated Vermont and New Hampshire homes and farms no longer able to be occupied by ordinary citizens.  (And of course, the hundred miles down the flatlands in the opposite direction.)

On Universal Health Care:

Imagine a society which feeds its children processed food, plops them down as inert blobs in front of digital devices both at school and home for hours every day, and expects pills (rather than exercise and natural foods),  to minimize the resulting epidemics of childhood obesity and Diabetes II. Then, imagine providing insurance to pay for treating these epidemics.  Smart, huh?

On the Internet:

Put into the hands of every citizen, and most American teenagers, a device which can instantaneously connect them to pornography and gambling parlors. Then, pretend that such exposure does no harm, either to adults or children.

On  American Dependence on Oil:

We can set, and achieve, a ten-year goal of manned space travel to the moon in the 1960’s, but we cannot invent an affordable alternative to gasoline and oil-driven machines in the eleven years since the 2001 World Trade Center attacks ?  Sounds fishy to me.