Hey everybody, meet Stephanie Mack, Republican candidate for Vermont House in the Chittenden-24 district. She ran against incumbent Democrat Alyssa Black and lost by more than 20 percentage points. (“Erik Post” was a Dem candidate in the neighboring Chittenden-23 district. Does Mack know who she was running against?) Apparently she’s taken her loss poorly; she wrote a lengthy post on her campaign’s Facebook page bemoaning the dominance of Democrats and predicting a coming “civil revolution.”
After a while she apparently had second thoughts and removed the post. Fortunately, I have screenshots. Funny thing is, she wrote a new post that’s much, much worse. It casts doubt on the 2026 election results and urges Trump to take control of the election system. It’s January 6 all over again, except without the feces-smearing and general mayhem. I think.
And she wonders why she couldn’t appeal to voters in a deep blue district.
Her initial post in more detail. She bemoans the fact that she couldn’t draw any more votes than her predecessor. In fact, 2024 was a Republican wave election. If she got as many votes in 2026 as a Republican drew in 2024, she actually did pretty well. Especially since 2024 was a presidential year and a lot more people voted. This is one accountant who seems unfamiliar with the use of numbers.
Mack centered her campaign on her professional experience in accountancy. She called for a complete audit of the entire state government, a notion that would induce a horse laugh from Auditor Doug Hoffer. He’s been auditing bits and pieces of the government full-time for nearly 14 years and hasn’t come anywhere close to exploring the whole thing.
Also, her audit demand ought to be addressed to Gov. Phil Scott, who’s been running the state for a decade and is in the best position to do what she wants. But her grasp on how government works, not to mention her grip on reality, seems a little shaky. In this context it should be noted that she has yet to file the campaign finance report due on October 30, which undercuts her claim to fiscal probity.
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