VT gubernatorial candidate promises Saturday night 'governor's pardon TV show'

A silly candidate running for governor of liberal Vermont and a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives has proposed a new way to rake in the big bucks for the state, have some fun, and maybe let a few criminals go free in the process.

Cris Ericson, an Independent said in a Vermont PBS commentary that if she's elected she "will host a governor's pardon TV show every Saturday night."

Ericson said that she would "pardon a few of the people who violate the new, unconstitutional anti-gun laws and some of those who are non-violent offenders of other laws. She believes this will save Vermonters money, but like Bernie Sanders, she is talking like someone who speed-read Karl Marx and took an economics class at Yaheppits College and Beauty School.

Ericson's website claims that she has the "sharpest, clearest, boldest 2018 political platform of any candidate in the U.S.A.!!!" She explains that the show would consist of a "full audience in the auditorium in the governor's office building in Montpelier and invite 100 Vermonters each week to boo or cheer."

Then friends and family of the prisoners considered for pardon by her will be invited to speak on their behalf. "Then the audience will vote on whether I should grant a pardon as governor, with the legal authority to grant pardons," Ericson said.

But the real hook for the public is that she plans to sell the show "worldwide on cable TV," and would "make a fortune" for Vermont's general fund, which may or may not be stolen by those she frees.

Ericson isn't new to the bizarre. In September, a local TV station posted a 20-minute video in which Ericson has a conversation with a stuffed rat--the show's host--named "Squeaky."

I am not making this up. Check out the video.

Ericson is going up against six other candidates for governor. According to a Vermont Public Radio-Vermont PBS Poll taken earlier this month, she had a one percent chance of being elected and a 92 percent chance of being propositioned by half the men in the state who voted for Bernie Sanders.

Republican Phil Scott led in the pole with 42 percent of the vote whit Democrat Christine Hallquist second with 28 percent.

Will Ericson ever consider running for president?

You make the call.


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Nothing seems real anymore. The media has taken everything we've known about humanity and buffed it up to look good, even though we know that reality doesn't even come close to what we're seeing on the tube. But here in Canada they don't do that sort of thing--at least not all of the time. The people are real--they have Canadian accents and say a boat when they mean about. They don't look like Hollywood glamor queens--they look like that chick sitting across from you on the bus eating a Big Mac and washing it down with a slurpee. They are totally real and I like that a boat Canada.

Please don't get the impression I have anything negative to say about full-size people; I don't and I happen to be in that category myself. I'm just saying that they choose people to represent the news here based on their brain size, not their waist size, and I like it that way.

I don't know the lady in this photo but she seems bright and knew what was new, or news, that is.

Anyway, I had to get this off my chest. And speaking of chests . . . never mind.

Next time I want to talk about winter photography from the comfort of your couch.