Dear Donor –

Thanks to your support, the 2025-2026 Legislative biennium was successful in bringing long-needed moderation to the Legislature. In November 2024, we elected more Republicans to the House and Senate, eliminating the Democrat/Progressive supermajority. Because of those gains, we Republicans were able to hold more leadership positions across committees, which allowed us more control over the narrative. As Vice-Chair of House Government Operations & Military Affairs, Co-Chair of the VT National Guard & Veterans Affairs Caucus, and Co-Chair of the VT Rural Caucus, I am proud of the work I was a part of. In both years, from the first week of January until the last week of May in Montpelier, we worked hard to bring balance to the bills that came through our committees and advocated for positions in Caucuses that became law, like repealing the Road Rule/Tier 3 mapping and establishing a military pension tax exemption for certain military retirees and survivors.  Collectively with my Republican Caucus colleagues and a non-partisan coalition of colleagues in both the VT NG&VA Caucus and the Rural Caucus, we accomplished these goals. We also succeeded in preventing legislation from being voted out of our committees and sustaining the Governor’s vetoes of legislation that we knew would be harmful to Vermonters. After serving in a super minority for six years before this, these last two years have been eye-opening as to what we could do if we ever had a majority of our own. For that to happen, and even to sustain what we have now, we need your help. We need to elect more moderate candidates who aren’t afraid to stand up for what is reasonable and to work across the aisle to make it happen. That doesn’t happen overnight, and with the seniority members who came in with me now have, we have a unique opportunity to use that power to our advantage and to work with the Governor to accomplish real change in the name of affordability. We saw how adding just 17 members to the House increased the number of leadership positions we held and by building relationships with our Chairs and committee members, how much influence we have.  If we can sustain that in the November elections, or even surpass that number, we can begin to tackle the real issues, instead of having to spend our time undoing the egregious legislation of past bienniums. We desperately need to solve the education crisis, the housing crisis, and the healthcare crisis, and we will work with the Administration to try to do that. Although I don’t have an opponent in this year’s Primary, your support means peace of mind for me to continue the work that I am doing and to build on that work in the future when we do have contested elections.

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471 Potato Hill Road, Enosburg Falls VT 05450

Thank you and stay well, Rep Lisa Hango, Franklin-5 (Berkshire)