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State Senator, Rutland District

Dave Wolk

Candidate for State Senator, Rutland District

Independent

Background

Occupation
Former Rutland County assistant judge; former Castleton president
Lives in
Rutland Town
Campaign website
wolkforsenate.com

A Rutland native, he has been a teacher, principal and superintendent, a state senator, Vermont's Commissioner of Education, president of Castleton, and most recently a Rutland County assistant judge. He is running as an Independent and says he will not accept PAC or party contributions.

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Documented positions

Education

  • Supports finding efficiencies in public education

    Priorities

    Campaign website · Wolk For Senate · wolkforsenate.com

    “There are efficiencies in public education that need to be realized.”
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Housing

  • Supports relaxing regulations to build more housing

    Priorities

    Campaign website · Wolk For Senate · wolkforsenate.com

    “We need to remove barriers and relax needless regulations in the way of responsible development, especially in creating more and better housing.”
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Roads & infrastructure

  • Supports more support for the Transportation Fund

    Priorities

    Campaign website · Wolk For Senate · wolkforsenate.com

    “The Transportation Fund needs greater support.”
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Government & transparency

  • Supports replacing state oversight with expedited local control

    Priorities

    Campaign website · Wolk For Senate · wolkforsenate.com

    “Expedited local control needs to replace the historically slow bureaucracy of state oversight.”
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  • Pledges to refuse PAC and party contributions

    Dave Wolk for Vermont Senate

    Campaign website · Wolk For Senate · wolkforsenate.com

    “I am not accepting contributions from political action committees or political parties.”
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Other issues in this race

Other candidates in this race addressed these topics. We found no documented position from Dave Wolk on them.

  • Taxes & budgetNo documented position found.
  • Public safetyNo documented position found.
  • Environment & parksNo documented position found.
  • Health & human servicesNo documented position found.
  • Courts & justiceNo documented position found.

All sources (4)

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