Both VDB readers and Green Mountain Daily types know Matt Breuer: over at GMD, he’s a stalwart blogger, and on our own State Senate campaign Matt has been one of the key Essex operatives going back to early June. Just this past Halloween he was there for the first service politics event at the Essex Teen Center, helping to sand and refinish the dance floor and in general wielding a very mean broom.

Cut to the video of Matt Dunne’s gubernatorial campaign announcement of a few days ago. As with most things Dunne, it’s very sharply done and worth the look. But what struck us most here at VDB is the way Dunne leads it off: by reading an email from an eighteen-year-old from Essex named — wait for it — Matt Breuer.

Even the savviest political junkies are baffled by this cycle’s gubernatorial primary, and anyone who says they know which of the Democrats will pull it out is blowing serious smoke. They’re all very serious people, with mad political skills, and the winner only needs about 17,000 votes.

But ask VDB who’ll be Governor in 2034, with one eye on the Senate, and we can tell you that in a hot second.