WHITINGHAM - In a press release sent on Sunday, October 2, the Vermont Democratic Party called on the Vermont Republican Party to “remove its endorsement of [John] Lyddy and terminate all support.” The request was made after discovering a Facebook comment indicating that John Lyddy, the Windham-6 Republican candidate for the Vermont House of Representatives, was present during the January 6 protest-turned-riot. The VDP formally named him an “insurrectionist” and a “traitor.”