Former Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee is expanding on his storied baseball legacy by throwing a curveball into Vermont politics. He is the Vermont Liberty Union Party’s candidate for governor. Lee tells WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley that he is seeking the state’s top office because one of the founders of the party asked him to run.
" I don’t want to but I had to. Peter Diamondstone asked me to and it’s probably one of his last requests. And I went back home and read Plato’s The Republic section on the art of governing. And young Plato is sitting on Socrates’ knee and basically Socrates says it’s the worst thing you can do is when asked to run and you don’t. When I read those words I was very upset but I knew I had to do it.”
Bill “Spaceman” Lee is the Liberty Union candidate for Vermont Governor. He faces Democrat Sue Minter and Republican Phil Scott in the November 8th general election.
