Word: shumlin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drizzling night in Manchester, the two sides collide at a debate over Act 60. Faced with the elderly couple who say they will have to dip into retirement savings to pay taxes and the brothers who say they will have to close the family inn, state senator Peter Shumlin, an Act 60 advocate, takes the high-minded approach. "It's your responsibility as Vermonters to educate all our kids," he says. But later he growls at his opponent, "I don't blame you for not liking Act 60. You had a great deal, and it's coming...
...people of Vermont sort out whether the benefits of Act 60 were worth all the turmoil. But John Irving, for one, is not waiting around to find out. He's starting up his own private school--and stealing the principal away from the private academy where state senator Shumlin sends his kids. "My response is as brutally upper class as I can make it," says Irving. "I'm not putting my child in an underfunded public school system." If he can't get his new school up and running, says Irving, "I'm moving out of here...