Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

Republican Party

Education

High school

Woodstock High School, 1969

Bachelor's

University of Massachusetts

Personal

Profession

Business

Contact

Personal website

Richard "Dick" Tracy was a 2012 Republican candidate for the Windsor District of the Vermont State Senate.

Campaign themes

2012

From Tracy's campaign website:

Dick is concerned about

• Lack of balance in state government.
  
• One party rule - legitimate concerns of other perspectives have been ignored.
  
• Over-reliance on the Federal government to fund state government.
  
• The cost of state government - current budget projects to spend over $5 BILLION.
  
• $3 billion in unfunded liabilities for the state employees' and teachers' retirement funds.
  
• State government take over of Vermont's medical system without sufficient cost-benefit analysis.
  
• Cost of education (K-12 among the highest in the nation).
  
• Scarcity of good paying jobs for the youngsters we spend so much to educate.
  
• Energy costs - under current state policy Vermonters will be forced to pay higher than necessary electric rates, and those high costs will be a disincentive to businesses that could create jobs.
  

Dick will provide Vermonters with

• Leadership experience.
  
• Common sense and analytical approach to problem solving.
  
• Cost conscious budgeting.
  
• The willingness to challenge the status quo by asking tough questions and insisting upon solid complete answers.

Elections

2012

See also: Vermont State Senate elections, 2012

Tracy ran for election in the 2012 election for Vermont State Senate Windsor District. Tracy was unopposed in the August 28 Republican primary and was defeated in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.

Vermont State Senate, Windham District, General Election, 2012

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	John Campbell Incumbent	23.3%	16,249
	Democratic	Richard McCormack Incumbent	21.8%	15,217
	Democratic	Alice Nitka Incumbent	21.3%	14,899
	Republican	Paul Gibbs Jr.	9.5%	6,651
	Republican	Dick Tracy	13.8%	9,617
	Republican	Jeff Whittemore	10.3%	7,162
Total Votes				69,795

Recent news

The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for "Dick + Tracy + Vermont + Senate"

All stories may not be relevant to this legislator due to the nature of the search engine.

Dick Tracy News Feed

External links

Suggest a link

• Campaign website
• Facebook campaign

Footnotes

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Majority Leader:Kesha Ram Hinsdale

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