Photo: VSEA Woodside members pose with Senator Dick Sears (center, vest) after meeting with him and other lawmakers to discuss the future oftheir facility at VSEA’s final 2019 legislative dinner.
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VSEA Department of Health member Erin O’Keefe recently agreed to go on camera with WPTZ when they reached out to her to appear in a story about Vermont’s new infants-in-the-workplace program, which O’Keefe was approved to participate in. However, O’Keefe is concerned that much of what she told the reporter, including a staunch defense of VSEA’s position that the policy must be bargained, did not make it in the story. Instead, she is quoted saying she "respects" VSEA’s position, which, while the only soundbite used in the story, is not at all the only message O’Keefe delivered to the reporter.
