Philip Baruth

Philip Baruth
Vermont Senate Chittenden District
Incumbent
In office
2011 - present
Term ends
January 7, 2015
Years in position	2
Party	Democratic
Leadership
Senate Majority Leader
2013-present
Compensation
Base salary	$604.79/week
Per diem	$162/day (non-commuter) $61/day (commuter)
Elections and appointments
Last election	November 6, 2012
First elected	November 2, 2010
Next election	November 4, 2014
Term limits	N/A
Education
Bachelor's	Brown University
Ph.D.	University of California
Personal
Profession	Professor/Author
Websites
Office website
Campaign website

Philip Baruth is a Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Chittenden District since 2010 and currently serving as Senate Majority Leader since 2013.

He is a novelist and professor at the University of Vermont. He holds a BA in English from Brown University and a PhD from the University of California at Irvine.

Committee assignments

2013-2014

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Baruth served on the following committees:

Vermont Committee Assignments, 2013
• Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs, Vice-chair
• Education
• Rules
• Government Accountability
• Rules
• Legislative Information Technology

2011-2012

In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Baruth served on these committees:

Vermont Committee Assignments, 2011
• Agriculture
• Education
• Government Accountability

Elections

2012

See also: Vermont State Senate elections, 2012

Baruth won re-election in the 2012 election for Vermont State Senate Chittenden District. Baruth advanced past the August 28 Democratic primary and won election in the general election which took place on November 6, 2012.

Vermont State Senate, Chittenden District, General Election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Timothy Ashe Incumbent	13.3%	37,357
	Democratic	Philip Baruth Incumbent	11%	30,924
	Democratic	Sally Fox Incumbent	12.4%	34,909
	Democratic	Virginia Lyons Incumbent	12.4%	34,957
	Democratic	David Zuckerman	11.5%	32,253
	Republican	Diane Snelling Incumbent	11.2%	31,523
	Democratic	Debbie Ingram	8.3%	23,441
	Green	Larkin Forney	2%	5,618
	Progressive	Richard Jeroloman	1.2%	3,322
	Tea Party	Shelley Palmer	3%	8,362
	Independent	Patrick Brown	4.3%	12,217
	Independent	Bob Kiss	4.4%	12,324
	Independent	Robert Letovsky	3%	8,321
	Independent	Sean Selby	2.2%	6,157
Total Votes				281,685

Vermont State Senate, Chittenden District Democratic Primary, 2012
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Timothy Ashe Incumbent	16.3%	9,150
Virginia Lyons Incumbent	15.8%	8,873
Sally Fox Incumbent	15.2%	8,558
David Zuckerman	13.9%	7,838
Philip Baruth Incumbent	12.2%	6,859
Debbie Ingram	9%	5,068
Peter Hunt	8.2%	4,595
Ed Adrian	6.4%	3,629
Loyal Ploof	3%	1,696
Total Votes		56,266

2010

See also: Vermont State Senate elections, 2010

Baruth was elected to the Chittenden District Seat in 2010. He ran against Virginia Lyons (D), Hinda Miller (D), Timothy Ashe (D), Sally Fox (D), Frank Geier (D), and Andy Montroll (D) in the primary. He defeated Annette Roque Renaud (R), Dennis Bedard (R), Shelley Palmer (R), Mike Branon (R), Richard Jeroloman (I), Steve Laible (I), Mikey Van Gulden (I), Andy Montroll (D), and Larkin Forney (D) in the general election on November 2, 2010.

Vermont State Senate, Chittenden District, General Election (2010)
Candidates		Votes
Virginia Lyons (D)		28,605
Sally Fox (D)		27,448
Diane Snelling (R)		26,358
Tim Ashe (D)		25,656
Hinda Miller (D)		25,391
Philip Baruth (D)		25,179
Andy Montroll (D)		23,464
Charlie Smith (R)		19,498
Mike Brannon (R)		17,532
Dennis Bedard (R)		16,266
Shelley Palmer (R)		14,369
Mikey Van Gulden (I)		3,569
Steve Laible (I)		2,551
Richard "Terry" Jeroloman (I)		1,934
Larkin Forney (Justice for Vermonters)		1,685

Campaign donors

2012

Campaign donor information is not yet available for this year.

2010

In 2010, the year Baruth first won election to the Senate, he collected $36,869 in donations.

His five largest contributors in 2010 were:

Donor	Amount
Philip Baruth	$3,050
David Blittersdorf	$2,000
Wayne Dennison	$1,500
William Stetson, III	$1,500
Hilary Maslow	$1,250

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• Disagreements, political theater delay campaign finance reform - Commons
• Galbraith angers Vermont Senate colleagues - Brattleboro Reformer
• The Scoreboard: Winners and Losers of the 2013 Legislative Session - Seven Days
• Late deals clear the way for legislative gavel - Rutland Herald
• Dem Peter Galbraith angers Vt. Senate colleagues - Boston.com
• Galbraith angers Vt. Senate colleagues - NECN.com - NECN
• Vermont Senate OKs end-of-life legislation - St. George Daily Spectrum
• Advocates for child-care, deputy state's attorneys unions vow to return next ... - vtdigger.org
• Mazza admonishes Galbraith - vt.Buzz (blog)
• Senate chooses study over moratorium on school privatization - vtdigger.org

Personal

Baruth lives in Burlington, Vermont.

External links

• Biography of Philip Baruth on Project Vote Smart
• Vermont State Senate
• Philip Baruth's blog, Vermont Daily Briefing
• Philip Baruth on Facebook
• Philip Baruth on Twitter