Shumlin Gov
<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">see also anti-gmo</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, for instance, <a href="http://governor.vermont.gov/node/2597" target="_blank">singled</a> Exxon
out in his state of the state address last month. He called on the
legislature to divest the state of its holdings in the company because
of its deceptions. “This is a page right out of Big Tobacco,” he said,
“which for decades denied the health risks of their product as they were
killing people. Owning ExxonMobil stock is not a business Vermont
should be in.”</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#2a2a2a" size="4"><span style="line-height: 22.8px;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Peter Elliott Shumlin</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> (born March 24, 1956) is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American</a> politician and member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democratic Party</a> who serves as the 81st and current <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Vermont" title="Governor of Vermont" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Governor of Vermont</a> and has served as chair of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Governors_Association" title="Democratic Governors Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democratic Governors Association</a> since December 2012. First elected Governor in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_gubernatorial_election,2010" title="Vermont gubernatorial election, 2010" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2010</a>, he was re-elected by a large margin <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_gubernatorial_election,2012" title="Vermont gubernatorial election, 2012" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">in 2012</a>. In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_gubernatorial_election,2014" title="Vermont gubernatorial election, 2014" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2014</a> he received a narrow plurality in his race for re-election, but did not attain the 50 percent threshold required by the Vermont Constitution, requiring the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_General_Assembly" title="Vermont General Assembly" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Vermont General Assembly</a> to select the winner in January 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> He was subsequently re-elected to a third term by the legislature by a vote of 110-69.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> On June 8, 2015</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, Shumlin announced that he will not seek re-election in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a></sup></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He previously served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_House_of_Representatives" title="Vermont House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Vermont House of Representatives</a> from 1990 to 1993 and represented the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windham_Vermont_Senate_District,2002%E2%80%932012" title="Windham Vermont Senate District, 2002–2012" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Windham District</a>in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Senate" title="Vermont Senate" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Vermont Senate</a> from 1993 to 2003 and 2007 to 2011. He was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Vermont" title="Lieutenant Governor of Vermont" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Lieutenant Governor of Vermont</a> in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Contents</font></font></font></font></h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"> [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Personal_life.2C_education_and_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Personal life, education and career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Early_political_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early political career</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Vermont_Legislature" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Vermont Legislature</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Campaign_for_Lieutenant_Governor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Campaign for Lieutenant Governor</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Political_hiatus" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political hiatus</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Return_to_the_Vermont_Senate" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Return to the Vermont Senate</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Governor_of_Vermont" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Governor of Vermont</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#First_term" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">First term</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#2010_election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2010 election</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Summary_of_term" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Summary of term</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#2011_events" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.1.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2011 events</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#2012_events" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.1.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2012 events</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Second_term" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Second term</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#2012_election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2012 election</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Summary_of_term_2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Summary of term</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#2013_events" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2013 events</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#2014_events" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2014 events</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Third_term" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Third term</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#2014_election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2014 election</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Decision_not_to_run_in_2016" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Decision not to run in 2016</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#2015_events" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">3.3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2015 events</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Political_positions" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Political positions</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#Controversy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Controversy</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life.2C_education_and_career">Personal life, education and career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Shumlin&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life, education and career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Shumlin was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brattleboro,Vermont" title="Brattleboro, Vermont" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Brattleboro, Vermont</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-vrtmr1_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-vrtmr1-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> He went to high school at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buxton_School(Massachusetts)" title="Buxton School (Massachusetts)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Buxton School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamstown,Massachusetts" title="Williamstown, Massachusetts" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Williamstown, Massachusetts</a>, and graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesleyan_University" title="Wesleyan University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wesleyan University</a> in 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> Shumlin served on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putney,Vermont" title="Putney, Vermont" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Putney</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Selectmen" title="Board of Selectmen" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Selectboard</a> in the 1980s and helped found <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark_College" title="Landmark College" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Landmark College</a>, which was created to help people with learning disabilities gain a college education. Shumlin's father, George J. Shumlin, a third-generation American, was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish" title="Jewish" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jewish</a> and descended from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Russian</a> immigrants; Shumlin's mother, Kitty A. (Prins) Shumlin, was from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Hague</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Netherlands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-vrtmr1_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-vrtmr1-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Shumlin has two daughters with his ex-wife, Deborah Holway, to whom he was married from 1989 to 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-vrtmr1_7-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-vrtmr1-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 17.92px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">On September 17, 2015 he announced his engagement to long time girlfriend Kate Hunt, and indicated that they plan to be married within the next year.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shumlin#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px;">Contrary to Rubio’s perception, Exxon is not being investigated for their political views, but rather for actively misleading the public and their investors on their extensive knowledge of climate change. A </span><a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken" target="blank" style="line-height: 25.2px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">series</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px;">of</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px;"> </span><a href="http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-research/" target="blank" style="line-height: 25.2px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">investigative reports</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px;">revealed that as early as the 1970s, Exxon knew that burning</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px;"> </span><a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/" style="line-height: 25.2px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">fossil fuels</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px;">caused climate change, but spent millions to sow public doubt around their own research. Just yesterday, in light of these reports,</span><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px;"> Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin called on the state’s pension funds to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/07/huge-ovation-citing-exxonknew-vermont-governor-calls-fossil-fuel-divestment?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">divest their holdings in Exxon</a>.</b></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Bad news for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">polluter-funded</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, but wonderful news for the planet.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2012 and 2013, ALEC tried to roll back states' renewable energy standards, and <a href="http://grist.org/news/campaign-to-roll-back-state-renewable-programs-is-a-flop-so-far/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">failed</a>. Now it's trying to <a href="http://grist.org/news/times-are-tough-for-the-fossil-fuel-lovers-at-alec/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">roll back solar net-metering programs</a>, which let homeowners sell electricity from their rooftop panels into the grid, and that campaign isn't going so well either.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Case in point: In Vermont, Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) just signed a bill that will expand the state's net-metering program, allowing solar panel owners to sell more of their clean electricity into the grid.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2014/bills/Passed/H-702C.pdf" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">The bill</a> will nearly quadruple the size of a cap on the amount of solar power that utilities must be willing to buy from their customers. It also creates pilot projects that could allow for solar projects as large as 5 megawatts to be built under the scheme. <a href="http://www.therepublic.com/w/VT--Renewable-Power" target="blank" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(157, 157, 157); text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">The AP reports</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 1.4em 42px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 22.8px; width: auto !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Alternative energy proponents pushed for the increased cap after some Vermont utilities had reached the 4 percent cap and stopped taking new net-metered power.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Our success exceeded our wildest dreams," Shumlin said before signing the bill into law, noting that since he took office in 2011 the state had quadrupled the amount of solar energy on the state's electric grid.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Vermont's increased use of alternative energy has helped the state to become the nation's per-capita leader in the number of solar energy jobs.</font></p></blockquote>