{"id":1835,"date":"2018-06-11T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2018-06-11T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:17:38","slug":"angry-vermonters-demand-10000-to-stay-in-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/11\/angry-vermonters-demand-10000-to-stay-in-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Vermonters Demand $10,000 to Stay in the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTPELIER &#8211; A group of Vermont residents gathered this weekend on the statehouse lawn to demand a cash settlement in exchange for not moving out of state. They were protesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/news\/local\/vermont\/2018\/05\/31\/vermont-pay-remote-workers-move-incentive\/659553002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the recent initiative put forth by Gov. Scott that will give $10,000 to anyone willing to move to Vermont and work remotely.<\/a>\u00a0 Some question whether the plan will remotely work, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/01\/vermont-residents-are-offering-20000-to-people-willing-to-stay-out-of-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">others have pooled money trying to keep people\u00a0<em>out<\/em> of the state<\/a>, and this new backlash represents another bump in the road for the beleaguered governor.<\/p>\n<p>Signs reading &#8216;Where&#8217;s My Handout?&#8217; and &#8216;I&#8217;m not leaving till I get my $10K&#8217; peppered the crowd of about 300 farmers, laborers, and young professionals who are now pushing a &#8216;Pay to Stay&#8217; program that would offer each of them $10,000 to stay and work in Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been talking to Massachusetts,&#8221; said one angry young man in muddy Carhartts, &#8220;and they were considering some stuff. They weren&#8217;t gonna pay me 10K, but I talked &#8217;em up to about two grand to move there, so Vermont&#8217;s gotta at least beat that. But come on man, they&#8217;re paying people to move here? I already live here! Way I see it, they owe me that money plus interest!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Scott was not at the statehouse during the protest and could not be reached for comment regarding the protests, or the offer from the crowd to pay him $10,000 to move to New Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>MONTPELIER &#8211; A group of Vermont residents gathered this weekend on the statehouse lawn to demand a cash settlement in exchange for not moving out <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/11\/angry-vermonters-demand-10000-to-stay-in-the-state\/\" title=\"Angry Vermonters Demand $10,000 to Stay in the State\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-montpelier","tag-montpelier"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TWFI-2018_06_11.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-tB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}