“Sustaining my private practice in pediatric physical therapy while being able to afford to live in Vermont with my children. The large businesses/monopolies in my opinion do not serve the needs of their patients in our rural state. I am unable to qualify for Public Service provider student loan forgiveness because I have a private practice …even though my practice only accepts VT Medicaid for insurance coverage!!”

“As a retired teacher, I volunteer at our local food shelf and also started a program to offer homemade soup to our local food shelf. While working on the hunger issue, I am shocked to learn that mega-farms receive huge subsidies while our local farms in VT receive nothing. Meanwhile, many thousands of Americans are food insecure.”

“Of course every one of these things is super important. But voting rights is probably number one as it’s key to everything else. Good to have you there fighting for us. It is an act of bravery to step up at this time to fight for our democracy by and for the people.”

“First, congratulations, Becca! Based upon ongoing reports about global warming, we need to move away from corporate interests and toward truly common needs. Curbing climate change will take all of us.”

 “I am extremely concerned about the increasing power of Wall Street and large corporations over all aspects of our lives and its displacement of the role of government in the formulation and execution of public policy.”