A 14-year-old kid has now qualified to appear on the general election ballot for Governor of Vermont this November.
Dean Roy, a freshman at Stowe High School who also works part-time at his parents’ pizza shop and served as a legislative page at the Vermont Statehouse last year, has become the first teenager under 18 to qualify for the state’s general election ballot for governor.
He did it by founding his own third-party outfit called the Freedom and Unity Party.
“I know it sounds crazy, a 14-year-old running for governor,” Roy said in a video posted to Instagram. “But honestly, look at the people in charge right now. They’ve been doing this forever and things still aren’t working.”
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend this morning, Roy laid out a no-nonsense platform.
“Yeah, so the platform that I’m running on mainly focuses on housing, energy, healthcare, and education.
For housing, it mainly revolves around deregulating with regard to Act 250 and increasing taxes on short-term rentals, which are a very prominent problem in Vermont.
For energy, it’s nuclear power. If we were to reopen a nuclear power plant, we would secure energy independence.
And for education and healthcare, it’s auditing those systems, which are very inefficient in Vermont, and making sure that we get them to be efficient once again—and that they’re at a standard where Vermonters can both afford them and lower their tax bill.”
Hellbound and Down 