Share on WeChat
https://www.powervoter.us:443/charlie_kimbell
Copy the link and open WeChat to share.
 Share on WeChat
Copy the link and open WeChat to share.
 Share on WeChat
Scan QRCode using WeChat,and then click the icon at the top-right corner of your screen.
 Share on WeChat
Scan QRCode using WeChat,and then click the icon at the top-right corner of your screen.
Quick Facts
Personal Details

Education

  • BA, Political Science, University of Vermont, 1982-1986

Professional Experience

  • BA, Political Science, University of Vermont, 1982-1986
  • Co-Owner, Kimbell Enterprises Limited Liability Corporation doing business as Elevation Clothing, 2012-present
  • Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Manufacturing Information Systems (MISys), Incoporated, 2010-2016
  • Owner, Kimbell Enterprises Limited Liability Corporation, 2006-2010
  • Vice President/Director of Marketing & Licensing/Chief Strategy Officer, Wild Apple Graphics, 1997-2007
  • Assistant Vice President/Branch Manager/Commercial Leader, Vermont National Bank, 1986-1997

Political Experience

  • BA, Political Science, University of Vermont, 1982-1986
  • Co-Owner, Kimbell Enterprises Limited Liability Corporation doing business as Elevation Clothing, 2012-present
  • Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Manufacturing Information Systems (MISys), Incoporated, 2010-2016
  • Owner, Kimbell Enterprises Limited Liability Corporation, 2006-2010
  • Vice President/Director of Marketing & Licensing/Chief Strategy Officer, Wild Apple Graphics, 1997-2007
  • Assistant Vice President/Branch Manager/Commercial Leader, Vermont National Bank, 1986-1997
  • Representative, Vermont State House of Representatives, District Windsor-5, 2017-present
  • Candidate, Vermont State Senate, District Windsor-5, 2020
  • Candidate, Vermont State House of Representatives, District Windsor-5, 2018
  • Candidate, Vermont State Senate, District Windsor, 2004

Current Legislative Committees

Ranking Member, Commerce and Economic Development

Member, Legislative Council

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • BA, Political Science, University of Vermont, 1982-1986
  • Co-Owner, Kimbell Enterprises Limited Liability Corporation doing business as Elevation Clothing, 2012-present
  • Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Manufacturing Information Systems (MISys), Incoporated, 2010-2016
  • Owner, Kimbell Enterprises Limited Liability Corporation, 2006-2010
  • Vice President/Director of Marketing & Licensing/Chief Strategy Officer, Wild Apple Graphics, 1997-2007
  • Assistant Vice President/Branch Manager/Commercial Leader, Vermont National Bank, 1986-1997
  • Representative, Vermont State House of Representatives, District Windsor-5, 2017-present
  • Candidate, Vermont State Senate, District Windsor-5, 2020
  • Candidate, Vermont State House of Representatives, District Windsor-5, 2018
  • Candidate, Vermont State Senate, District Windsor, 2004
  • Chair, Woodstock Economic Development Commission, 2009-present
  • President, Covered Bridges Half Marathon Incorporated, 2001-present
  • Board Member, Woodstock Associates, 1995-present
  • Member, Saint Albans Free Library Board of Trustees
  • Former Trustee, Village of Woodstock
  • President, Race Director, Covered Bridges Half Marathon (CBHM) Incorporated, 1996-2012
  • Managing Trustee, Pentangle Town Hall Theatre Inv. Trust, 1997-2001
  • Board Member, Woodstock Ski Runners Incorporated, 1996-1999
  • Member, Rotary International, 1988-1997

Other Info

Favorite Book:

Solzenitsyn: A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

  • The Long Walk
  • Hobbies or Special Talents:

    Road cycling, mountain biking, running, hiking, snowshoeing, soccer, ping pong.

    Policy Positions

    Vermont State Legislative Election 2004 National Political Awareness Test

    Abortion

    Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.

    1. Abortions should always be illegal.
    - No Answer

    2. Abortions should always be legal.
    - No Answer

    3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
    - X

    4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
    - No Answer

    5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
    - No Answer

    6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
    - No Answer

    7. Other or expanded principles
    - No Answer

    Budget, Spending, and Tax

    State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category.

    1. Education (higher)
    - Maintain Status

    2. Education (K-12)
    - Slightly Decrease

    3. Environment
    - Maintain Status

    4. Health care
    - Slightly Increase

    5. Law enforcement
    - Slightly Increase

    6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
    - Greatly Increase

    7. Welfare
    - Maintain Status

    8. Other or expanded categories
    - No Answer

    State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.

    1. Alcohol taxes
    - Maintain Status

    2. Capital gains taxes
    - Maintain Status

    3. Cigarette taxes
    - Maintain Status

    4. Corporate taxes
    - Slightly Decrease

    5. Estate taxes
    - Slightly Decrease

    6. Gasoline taxes
    - Maintain Status

    7. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
    - Maintain Status

    8. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
    - Slightly Decrease

    9. Property taxes
    - Greatly Decrease

    10. Sales taxes
    - Slightly Decrease

    11. Vehicle taxes
    - Slightly Increase

    12. Other or expanded categories
    - No Answer

    13. Should Internet sales be taxed?
    - Yes

    14. Other or expanded principles
    - No Answer

    Campaign Finance and Government Reform

    Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.

    1. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Vermont governors?
    - No

    2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Vermont state senators and representatives?
    - No

    Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

    1. Individual
    - Yes

    2. PAC
    - Yes

    3. Corporate
    - Yes

    4. Political Parties
    - No

    5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
    - Yes

    6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
    - Yes

    7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying, and ensuring accuracy of votes?
    - Undecided

    8. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in Vermont are closed?
    - No

    9. Do you support recognition of civil unions between same-sex couples?
    - Yes

    10. Should Vermont restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
    - No Answer

    11. Should Vermont ban smoking in all public places, including bars?
    - No Answer

    12. Other or expanded principles
    - No Answer

    Crime

    Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.

    1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
    - No Answer

    2. Implement the death penalty in Vermont.
    - No Answer

    3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
    - No Answer

    4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
    - X

    5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
    - X

    6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
    - X

    7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
    - No Answer

    8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
    - X

    9. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
    - X

    10. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
    - No Answer

    11. Other or expanded principles
    - No Answer

    Education

    Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

    1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
    - X

    2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
    - X

    3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
    - No Answer

    4. Expand Vermont's public school choice program to include all K-12 students.
    - X

    5. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
    - No Answer

    6. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
    - No Answer

    7. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
    - X

    8. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
    - No Answer

    9. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
    - No Answer

    10. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
    - No Answer

    11. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
    - No Answer

    12. Support incentives for communities to start public preschool programs.
    - No Answer

    13. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
    - No Answer

    14. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
    - No Answer

    15. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
    - No Answer

    16. Other or expanded principles
    - No Answer

    Employment and Affirmative Action

    Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.

    1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market.
    - X

    2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
    - X

    3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
    - X

    4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
    - X

    5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
    - No Answer

    6. Increase the state minimum wage.
    - No Answer

    7. Other or expanded principles
    - No Answer

    Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:

    1. Public employment
    - No

    2. State college and university admissions
    - No

    3. State contracting
    - No

    4. Other or expanded principles
    - No Answer

    Environment and Energy

    Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

    1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
    - X

    2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
    - No Answer

    3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
    - X

    4. Support funding for open space preservation.
    - No Answer

    5. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
    - No Answer

    6. Conduct environmental permit appeals before a full-time Environmental Court.
    - X

    7. Conduct environmental permit appeals before a citizen board.
    - No Answer

    8. Allow individuals or groups that can demonstrate an interest or expertise in a case to participate in environmental permit appeals.
    - No Answer

    9. Other or expanded principles
    - No Answer

    Gun

    Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.

    1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
    - No Answer

    2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
    - No Answer

    3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
    - No Answer

    4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
    - No Answer

    5. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
    - No Answer

    6. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
    - No Answer

    7. Require a license for gun possession.
    - No Answer

    8. Other or expanded principles
    - No Answer

    Health

    Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.

    1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
    - X

    2. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
    - No Answer

    3. Provide tax credits to small businesses that offer health insurance to their workers.
    - No Answer

    4. Allow small businesses and individuals who have not had health insurance in the past to buy coverage under a state plan.
    - No Answer

    5. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
    - No Answer

    6. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
    - X

    7. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
    - No Answer

    8. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
    - No Answer

    9. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Vermont.
    - No Answer

    10. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
    - X

    11. Other or expanded principles
    - X

    Welfare and Poverty

    Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare and poverty.

    1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
    - X

    2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
    - No Answer

    3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
    - No Answer

    4. Limit benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
    - No Answer

    5. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
    - No Answer

    6. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
    - No Answer

    7. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
    - X

    8. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
    - No Answer

    9. Other or expanded principles
    - X

    Legislative Priorities

    Please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
    - No Answer

    Speeches