House Representatives Jim Masland and Tim Briglin weighed in for Daybreak on the tentative proposal by Legislative Apportionment Board (LAB) to split the Town of Norwich into two House districts. Rep. Masland says it is: “Bad, bad, bad!” Further, Rep. Briglin believes “there is little/no chance the LAB’s proposal will be adopted by the legislature.” See their complete comments on Daybreak here.
However, single member districts get support from Vermont Public Research Interest Group, a left-leaning advocacy organization, as well as from the Ethan Allen Institute, a conservative think tank, reports VTDigger in an article published on October 25. Nonetheless, that article, by Lola Duffort and Erin Petenko, adds that former House Speaker Shap Smith thinks that “lawmakers — and their constituents — just generally favor the status quo.”