Shumlin takes shot at Scott, endorses Minter and Zuckerman

BURLINGTON — After insisting that he would stay out of the gubernatorial race, Gov. Peter Shumlin took a swipe at Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott in a press conference on Thursday.

Shumlin, who is stepping down in January, suggested that Scott who is running for governor, had shifted his position on climate change to broaden his appeal in a general election contest with Democrat Sue Minter.

“That’s the Republican approach to climate change, is that they deny it, they say that it’s not happening or that it’s not man-made, and they get a lot of support from the petroleum industry when they do that,” said Shumlin, a Democrat.

“Donald Trump’s been using that line from the beginning of the campaign, and it worked for him. Phil Scott used it for his Republican primary and it seems to have worked for him,” Shumlin added.

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