Bruce Lisman was born on July 1947 and is a retired Wall Street executive and was a Republican candidate for Vermont Governor in 2016.
11 Facts About Bruce Lisman
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Bruce Lisman moved to New York City and entered the financial sector after graduating in 1969.
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Bruce Lisman became a Senior Research Managing Director at Bear Stearns Companies in 1984, and rose to Co-Head of Global Equities at Bear Stearns in 2006.
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Bruce Lisman continues to serve on a range of executive boards around Vermont.
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Bruce Lisman donated at least $26,000 to the Vermont Republican Party between 2010 and 2014 but none, according to records, to the Vermont Democratic Party; this led to complaints that the group was violating campaign finance law by promoting a Republican agenda, with one such complaint dismissed by Democratic then-Attorney General Bill Sorrell in 2012.
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Bruce Lisman, who put over $1 million of his own money into the campaign, repeatedly denied holding any of his own political ambitions, and insisted that Campaign for Vermont was nonpartisan.
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In October 2015, Bruce Lisman announced his "outsider" candidacy for Vermont governor as a Republican.
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Bruce Lisman's platform included a two-year moratorium on new industrial renewable energy projects; repealing the recently passed Act 46, which he said would lead to "mandatory consolidation of our schools"; replacing Vermont Health Connect with a federal health care exchange; and capping state budget growth at 2 percent for three years.
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Bruce Lisman repeatedly declined to say whether or not he supports presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, unlike his rival, Lieutenant Governor Phil Scott, who does not support Trump.
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Bruce Lisman's campaign attacked Scott for being too closely connected to outgoing Democratic governor Peter Shumlin and for "plagiarizing" Bruce Lisman's ideas, and linked Scott to what it called the "failures" of the Vermont Health Connect insurance platform and the school redistricting Act 46.
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Similar ads were aired by a Super PAC funded by some of Bruce Lisman's former Bear Stearns colleagues.