Sounding the claxon of fear

What’s a supposedly nice guy like Vermont gubernatorial candidate Brian Dubie doing in a campaign like this? He is running around saying IBM told him they will leave Vermont due to higher power rates. However in the Free Press IBM spokesman Jeff Couture clearly denies that.

“I don’t think we’ve said anything about moving jobs specifically around the electricity goals,” Couture said. “There was nothing specific, or an ultimatum.”

Dubie’s recent radio ad says that Peter Shumlin will “fire three hundred correctional officers ... and release close to 800 nonviolent criminals from prison,” This new fear based effort comes a day after the Vermont Troopers Association endorsed Shumlin over Dubie.

Why wasn’t our man Dubie sounding the claxon of fear in 2009 when this was proposed:

“We need to continue to identify and implement new strategies that will protect our families and the safety of our communities by focusing on reintegrating property and drug offenders into the community and preserving prison beds for the most serious offenders,”

That is from a Douglas/Dubie administration plan which you might think the Lt. Gov would have passing familiarity with.

Will credibility be an issue if Dubie and his win-at-all-cost campaign team keep this up?
He is running on empty if all he has to run on is fear.