DENNIS P. STEELE
Dennis Steele is a fifth generation Vermonter and Northeast Kingdom businessman who recently launched the highly successful Internet radio station, Radio Free Vermont. Organized to promote Vermont music and Vermont musicians, Radio Free Vermont now has listeners in over 130 countries worldwide.
In 2003 Dennis started what has become a very popular chess-playing website of which he is sole owner and CEO. Over 200,000 people worldwide regularly play chess on this site.
After spending three years in the U.S. Army and a number of years in Hawaii and California as a sales executive, Dennis, his wife, and two children moved back to his hometown of Kirby, VT in 2006. Since that time Dennis has been an active supporter of the Second Vermont Republic and the entire Vermont independence movement.
Mr. Steele has a B.A. from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. He has been the recipient of numerous academic and military honors. He participates frequently in community affairs. An avid hunter, Mr. Steele often processes the family’s meat himself.
Steele’s political philosophy can be summarized by the following statement, “The gods of the American Empire are not the gods of Vermont.” He is committed to the return of Vermont to its status as an independent republic as it was between 1777 and 1791. When he is elected governor, he will call a statewide convention to consider articles of political independence. He will simultaneously do everything in his power to bring home Vermont’s National Guard troops immediately.
The theme of Dennis’s gubernatorial campaign is “Imagine…Free Vermont.” He can be reached at radiofreevermont@gmail.com, tel. 802-748-3475, or P.O. Box 28, E. St. Johnsbury, VT 05838. His websites are www.RadioFreeVermont.org and www.GovernorSteele.com.
PETER R. GARRITANO
Peter Garritano is a successful automobile sales executive who lives in Shelburne and works in Burlington. He and his wife and two children moved to Vermont from Delaware in 1993. They were drawn to Vermont by its clean, green, sustainable lifestyle.
Peter has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Delaware. Prior to moving to Vermont Mr. Garritano was a restaurant manager.
As a student of foreign policy, Garritano has traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He even has a small travel business on the side.
In recent years Peter has developed a keen interest in domestic and international politics. He has become increasingly skeptical of the policies of the American Empire including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Wall Street bailouts, the multi-trillion-dollar deficits, and the official account of what happened on September 11, 2001.
Peter is committed to using his sales and marketing skills and his political passion and political expertise to bring back the Vermont National Guard troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and lead Vermont out of the Union.
He can be reached at pgarritano1@juno.com.
DENNIS MORRISSEAU
Dennis Morrisseau is a longtime Vermont businessman and political activist. His career as a political activist began on March 10, 1968, when he was arrested in front of the White House for protesting the war in Vietnam while fully dressed as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army of which he was a commissioned officer. When he refused to comply with an order to report to Vietnam, Court-Martial charges were filed against him but subsequently dropped. Later he was allowed to resign his commission and was given an honorable discharge from the Army.
Two years later Mr. Morrisseau co-founded the Liberty Union Party and ran as a candidate for the U.S. Congress. In his 2006 bid for a Congressional seat, he ran under the label “Impeach Bush Now.”
A native of St. Johnsbury now living in West Pawlet, Morrisseau opened the very popular Burlington Church Street restaurant known as Leunig’s in 1980 and continued to operate it until 1996.
A graduate of the University of Vermont, Mr. Morrisseau speaks French and is an astute observer of the national and international political scene about which he writes frequently for several Internet websites.
Morrisseau also serves as the Foreign Minister of the Second Vermont Republic. In this role he helps cultivate relationships with foreign governments and media representatives from abroad so as to garner support for Vermont when it eventually achieves political independence.
About the State Senate campaign which he has launched, Mr. Morrisseau says, “This is by far the single most important development in the history of the Vermont independence movement.” Continuing he adds, “For the first time since March 4, 1791, Vermonters have the opportunity to regain control of their destiny.”
Mr. Morrisseau can be contacted at dmorso1@netzero.net or P.O. Box 177, W. Pawlet, VT 05775.
