But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
June Goodband
Other · Governor, Vermont
✓Opposes
How this mark works
We track key votes on sending U.S. weapons and money to the government of Israel. A check means every tracked vote they cast came down against sending more, on the side of peace and de-escalation. A question mark means a mixed record: they sided with sending up to half of the time. An X means they voted to send more weapons and money in over half of their tracked votes, even as the way those weapons and dollars were being used became more and more obvious. At exactly half, money this election cycle from a lobbying group we track, or an endorsement from a group that backs sending weapons, makes it an X. Only votes actually cast are counted. Where a candidate has no recorded votes on these bills, the mark comes instead from a reviewed reading of their public record (money from the lobbying groups we track, endorsements, and their own words since January 26, 2024). There an X also covers fully backing the conduct of the war by the government of Israel without significant reservations, and a question mark also covers speaking about Israel without saying clearly where they stand on U.S. weapons and funding. A dash means No Position Found: we found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: The February 2026 letter she signed, as first of six signers, urges the U.S. government 'to stop funding the Israeli military’s aggression in Gaza' and calls it a genocide, with nothing pointing the other way. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-01. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
June Goodband is a mental health counselor from Springfield and the Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party's candidate for governor of Vermont. She has worked for over 30 years as a counselor, and she is a Quaker. She ran for governor in 2024 and took 1.2 percent of the vote. On November 3 she faces Governor Phil Scott, the Republican; Amanda Janoo, the Democrat; Brian Judd, an independent; and Dean Roy of the Freedom and Unity Party.
Her campaign is about the state. Her site proposes requiring profitable businesses to pay a living wage, putting Vermont's universal health care law into effect, paying for schools through progressive taxation instead of homestead taxes, and housing people in cooperatives and modest homes with no-interest mortgages, and it lists demilitarization among her party's aims. Her campaign says it is not asking for money. In an August letter to Seven Days she argued that "The biggest threat to public safety in Vermont is coming from agents of the state who are lawlessly abducting people, not from people who are unhoused."
Her record on this site's question is a Quaker meeting's statement that she signed. In September 2025 the Quaker City Unity Friends Meeting approved what it calls a "Palestine Minute", a statement of its members' faith, and in February 2026 The Vermont Journal published it as a letter signed by Goodband, three others and the meeting's two co-clerks. The meeting says it is "deeply disturbed by the genocide occurring in Palestine" and calls the crisis one "that is funded by the U.S. government with taxpayers’ dollars." It urges the United States government "to stop funding the Israeli military’s aggression in Gaza," demands that the government of Israel lift its blockade on humanitarian aid for Palestinians, and asks the U.S. representative to the United Nations to support holding the Israeli government accountable for violations of international law. It ends with support for Israeli and Palestinian peacemaking groups that work "for a permanent ceasefire and a just peace."
These are the meeting's words, and she is one of six people who signed them. No statement on this in her own name alone was located: her campaign site, her 2024 Ballotpedia survey and her 2024 newspaper column do not mention Israel or Gaza. A governor casts no federal votes on any of this. Her campaign's Facebook page and her own were not read; the addresses are on her research page.
In their words
“We urge the United States government to stop funding the Israeli military’s aggression in Gaza, and demand that the government of Israel lift the blockade on humanitarian aid for Palestinians.”
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
Every page named below was opened and read on 2026-10-05 unless the entry says otherwise. Her campaign site is one page plus a contact form; it was read in full. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Goodband has not held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks is hers; the federal funding badges do not apply to a state office.
U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel
[Position, 2026-02-07] The Vermont Journal & The Shopper's letters page, published online February 7, 2026 and in the print edition of February 11, 2026 (page 8 of https://vermontjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The-Vermont-Journal-02-11-26.pdf). A letter from the Quaker City Unity Friends Meeting, signed by June Goodband, Nelia Sargent, Larry Marcotte and Jim Contois and by the co-clerks Jenny Wright and Reb MacKenzie. The minute it reproduces was "approved Sept. 2025". It says: "We urge the United States government to stop funding the Israeli military’s aggression in Gaza, and demand that the government of Israel lift the blockade on humanitarian aid for Palestinians." Its preface calls the crisis one "that is funded by the U.S. government with taxpayers’ dollars." These are the meeting's collective words; she is the first of six signers.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
[Position, 2026-02-07] The same letter demands "that the government of Israel lift the blockade on humanitarian aid for Palestinians." It does not address U.S. funding of aid to Palestinians or UNRWA.
Characterization of the conflict
[Position, 2026-02-07] The same letter: "We, of Quaker City Unity Friends Meeting, are deeply disturbed by the genocide occurring in Palestine, and are moved by the Spirit to speak out clearly about the genocide the Israeli government is committing against the Palestinian people with the full complicity of the United States government." It also says: "We grieve for the physical, emotional, and moral injury and trauma of the people of the Palestinian and Israeli territories. Violence begets violence." and asks that the U.S. representative to the United Nations "support holding the Israeli government accountable for their violations of international law."
Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying
Nothing located that concerns Israel. Her 2024 campaign site, as reproduced by Ballotpedia, proposes to "Outlaw paid lobbying" in general.
Safety and antisemitism
Nothing located, at any date. The same Seven Days letters page of August 19, 2026 that carries her letter on homelessness also carries a letter headed "Jewish Does Not Equal Pro-Israel"; that letter is signed by another writer and is not hers.
What the campaign site and own pages say
[Position, read 2026-10-05] Her campaign site says the Peace and Justice Party challenges the two major parties "with our vision of a just, inclusive society with equitable distribution of wealth and power, sustainable use of resources of the benefit of all, decolonization, and demilitarization." Its proposals: a living wage required of profitable businesses, Vermont's universal health care law put into effect, progressive taxation in place of homestead taxes for education, community hubs for employment and human services, public safety through social support, co-op housing and no-interest mortgages. It says: "We aren’t asking for money." Nothing on this subject beyond the word "demilitarization", which is not tied to any country.
[Position, 2026-08-19] Her letter in Seven Days, signed with her name and her town, Springfield, and identifying her as a Peace and Justice Party candidate for governor, is about homelessness in Burlington and housing policy. Nothing on this subject.
[Position, 2024 survey; read 2026-10-05] Ballotpedia carries her 2024 Candidate Connection survey, submitted July 1, 2024, and her 2024 campaign site text: corporate money and lobbying, meeting basic needs, the climate crisis, universal health care, housing, prisons, child care and human rights. The people she names as models include Lucretia Mott, Martin Luther King Jr, Bayard Rustin and Mohandas Gandhi. No question on the form is about foreign policy, and she raised none. She has not completed the 2026 survey.
[Position, 2024-08-26] Her column in the Manchester Journal on why she was running is about money in politics, the restrictions on candidates' speech and her refusal of donations. Nothing on this subject.
[Read 2026-10-05] iVoterGuide's profile of her lists her work as a counselor and psychotherapist and her volunteer roles with the New England Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends from 1989 to 2025. She answered its first section, on abortion, and none of the later questions, including "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?" A question left blank with the rest of the form says nothing about her view.
The race
[Read 2026-10-05] Her Ballotpedia page records that Phil Scott (R), the incumbent, Amanda Janoo (D), Dean Roy (Freedom and Unity Party), June Goodband (Green Mountain Peace and Justice Party of Vermont) and Brian Judd (Independent) are running in the general election for Governor of Vermont on November 3, 2026. In the 2024 general election for governor she took 4,512 votes, 1.2 percent. The page gives her birthplace as Ithaca, New York, her degrees from Goddard College (1976) and Antioch University (1987), her religion as Quaker and her profession as counselor.
Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them
Her campaign's Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61588667334117 , and her own, https://www.facebook.com/june.goodband/ , both listed by Ballotpedia. Not read.
MultiState's candidate profile, https://www.multistate.us/elections/candidate?id=63438 . It showed only a loading screen; nothing claimed.
Not on the card, and why
Her state platform in detail: out of scope, summarized above.
The letter's preface, its accountability request and its support for peacemaking groups: kept to the deep dive and this page; the front carries its two central sentences.
The Seven Days letter on antisemitism and Middlebury College: another writer's letter, not hers.
Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)
https://vermontjournal.com/editorial/letters-to-the-editor/lte-unity-friends-palestine-minute/ (opened; 2026-10-05; published 2026-02-07)
https://vermontjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The-Vermont-Journal-02-11-26.pdf (opened as text; 2026-10-05; print edition dated February 11, 2026, page 8)
https://vermontjournal.com/category/editorial/page/7/ (opened; 2026-10-05; the editorial listing that links the letter)
https://june4govvt.org/ (opened; 2026-10-05; read by two routes)
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