Phil Scott is a down-to-earth, intelligent, and reasonable politician. He's not a right-wing nut-job trying to "put women in their place", lying about voting fraud, who courts extremists, and is racist. Scott did and is doing a very good job re: COVID and was very up-front and accessible to answer tough questions. I don't agree with everything Scott has done as Governor, but I think he takes a measured and reasonable approach to achieve incremental progress while addressing major issues. I prefer this approach to that proposed by many Progressives, where they demand major, sweeping, expensive changes all at once. Seems like a ready, fire, aim mindset to achieve change for change's sake. On balance I appreciate what Phil Scott has done and how he's done it.

Here's a story I have about Phil Scott:

About 10 years ago, when Scott was still Lt. Governor, I personally built a large deck at my home. My father-in-law joked with me about how the deck was so solid that it could have sunk the Titanic. With that on my mind, later on, I wrote to the Lt. Governor's office and invited Phil Scott to attend a BBQ at my house we were having to celebrate the new deck. I relayed what my father-in-law had said about the deck, and asked if the Lt. Governor would come to perform a ceremonial christening, as part of his official duties, like what happens with new sea-going vessels.

Phil Scott's chief of staff at the time, wrote back to me to say that the Lt. Governor had a previous engagement that afternoon, but that he was truly disappointed he could not attend. About a week later, driving through my town, my wife saw Phil Scott's car parked outside one of our local shops. We knew it was his car because of the VT Government license plate with number "2". She went into the store and walked right up to Phil Scott, introduced herself, and said we really missed him at our deck christening party. He knew who we were, was very gracious, and honestly did wish he could have come to have a burger and a beer with us on the new deck.

I think Phil Scott is an honest and classy politician when those two traits seem to be more the exception than the norm these days.