Sources Tell Us ...

That Gaye Symington is going to hold a press conference on Monday.  While she won't reveal what she intends to say on this occasion, informed sources, have leaked the news that she will be announcing her intention to run for governor.

Oh, my.  You don't say.  We apologize if this "breaking news" has laid you out in a dead faint.  We were sort of struck ourselves, though not by the fact of Ms. Symington's candidacy.  Everyone in the state suspects she is going to run.  What got to us was the way those "informed sources" insisted on "anonymity."

This in not Watergate or the Pentagon Papers, folks.  It is a routine, run-of-the mill, yawner of a political story.  Low grade chicken feed.  Spare us, please, the breathlessness.  Life is stressful enough.

Comments

[GreggB]

Very stressful if we don't get out before she is elected we'll need balloons to escape.

[G. Cross]

Hey Greg, just don't try a bunch helium filled ballons tied to a lawn a chair! The priest who recently tried that as a fund raiser is still floating somewhere, either in air or water! But I do have a couple of old lawn chairs, if you need one.

[Charity]

Just the other day, when I finished reading the paper, I remarked to my husband that Vermont is so dramatic. The newspaper is full of non-stories hyped up to sound like real earth-shattering news. This is a perfect example of what I was talking about.

Have we always been like this and I hadn't noticed, or is this something new? Is it like this everywhere?

I agree, life is stressful enough.

[doug]

It's been like this as long as I can remember and it's no different anywhere else. Funny, how when (news-)people run out of things to say, they keep talking.

[GreggB]

Thanks for your concern George. I wouldn't worry too much I have enough parachute experience to safely go ballooning.