I am asking for your vote to be re-elected in 2024 as your State Senator for a fourth term. I’m a candidate in the Democrat Primary on Tuesday, August 13, 2024. You can vote on 8/13 or you can vote early by mail or with your City/town Clerk.

I am excited to continue the work in representing the 23 towns in the Washington Senate District (all 18 towns and 2 cities of Washington County plus Stowe in Lamoille County and Orange and Braintree in Orange County). I promise to work for you, and with you, to ensure prosperity and health for all Vermonters.

Civic engagement is a powerful expression of freedom that I have been involved in throughout my life. For over twenty-five years I’ve worked developing a strong local independent renewable energy economy for the benefit of all Vermonters. I was the founding Executive Director of the trade association Renewable Energy Vermont and for the last fourteen years I have been the Director of the Clean Energy Development Fund at the VT Public Service Department.

Before being elected to the State Senate in 2018 I served on the Selectboard (two years as Chair), as a Justice of the Peace, and as a member of the Volunteer Fire Department in the town of Marshfield. These first-hand experiences in town governance, elections, and public safety have been invaluable to me as your State Senator the last four years.

During my first job in Vermont, as a VISTA volunteer for Project Warm Winter, I visited families and elders struggling through the winter without adequate fuel, insulation, or adequate funds to pay their heating bills. That experience inspires my dedicated to advocating for those community members struggling economically.

Before moving to Vermont I served as a volunteer in the US Peace Corps working with the people in rural Panama. While there I witnessed a community trying to recover from a violent dictatorship, war, and the lasting ecological impacts of extractive forest, water, and soil mismanagement by multi-national corporations. I’ve learned that an engaged local community, a healthy environment, and a strong local economy are all necessary if all of a community’s residents are to have a high quality of life and a vibrant future.

I wholeheartedly embrace the understanding that our community is created by our individual engagement and our collective impact. I am eager to continue as your engaged Senator, actively working for Vermont and with Vermonters that are also offering their service towards creating more prosperous communities in the Washington District and across Vermont.

Thank you, 

 -Andrew Perchlik