Instead, Scott rejected those safeguards, drawing praise from Americans for Prosperity — a massive corporate right-wing dark money machine.
The Vermont legislature had approved H.727 with overwhelming bipartisan support.
Governor Scott vetoed what would have been one of the strongest AI data center safeguard laws in the country. He sided with Big Tech and Koch-backed special interests over Vermonters.
Vermont Republican State Senator Steven Heffernan stood on the Vermont Senate floor last week and compared transgender people to animals. Repeatedly. Even after being corrected on the law.
This November, Vermonters vote on Proposal 4 — and on who represents them in Montpelier. The stakes couldn't be more clear.
Senator Heffernan (R - Addison District) made comments during debate on H. 578 — a bill about animal cruelty — to suggest transgender identity was comparable to “identifying as an animal,” while conflating bestiality and Vermont’s protections for LGBTQ+ people.
