I’d like to take the opportunity to offer my thoughts to the residents of Addison County about my friend and coworker Landel Cochran, who is running for a Senate seat in the upcoming election. I’ve worked alongside Landel for nearly a decade. He is a passionate, intelligent, hard-working, and relentless teammate, father, husband and Vermonter. Landel has served the people of Huntington in his personal time as a selectboard member, while also serving communities across the country and U.S. military personnel around the world as a leader in his career in the software industry. I believe Landel has the skills and mindset to help lead Vermonters to a brighter, fiscally responsible future.

I write this letter as a sixth-generation Vermonter, with my children being the seventh, who chose to leave after 47 years in the state I love. I will always consider myself a Vermonter, but the fiscal landscape of continuing to stay became too much for me. I’m hopeful that people like Landel can begin the hard work of building a future of opportunity and affordable living across our great state.

Thank you for your consideration of Landel’s candidacy. I know he has what it takes to represent the people of Addison County and all of Vermont.

Rob Coli

Clayton, N.C.