Two days after he was sworn in as Vermont's new lieutenant governor, John Rodgers traded his jacket and tie for a flannel shirt and Carhartt hoodie, then went to work at one of his three other jobs. Rodgers, who is 59, slid behind the wheel of his rusty Ford 550 diesel dump truck and pulled onto the snowy dirt road that bears his family's name. He was headed off into the frigid morning to plow driveways around West Glover — one way he augments the seasonal income from his primary trade, stonemasonry, and from sales of the hemp and marijuana he grows. For several hours that Saturday, Rodgers navigated his powerful rig up long, steep driveways. With his right hand on the wheel and his left on the switch controlling the height and angle of the plow blade, he pushed snow into huge mounds with a combination of brute force and finesse. Over the years, he has built a list of about 30 plowing clients, a workload that sometimes forced him to start his days at 3 a.m. in order to make it in time to Montpelier, where he served in the legislature. It's the kind of work, along with farming and trades, that fewer and fewer lawmakers do anymore — a change Rodgers thinks has created a divide between a legislature controlled by liberal Democrats and the people back home. "There's a lot of blue-collar Vermonters out there, and they don't feel like they are being represented in Montpelier," Rodgers said. A former conservative Democrat who had served in both the state House and Senate, Rodgers emerged from three years in political exile last year to run for lieutenant governor — as a Republican. His record of fighting for working-class Vermonters and his plainspoken, libertarian-tinged politics helped him tap into welling taxpayer anger to pull off one of the biggest political upsets in recent state history. He denied Progressive/Democrat incumbent lieutenant governor David Zuckerman a fourth term. Rodgers' November win exemplifies voters' shift toward a more conservative politics focused on affordability, also evidenced by big Republican gains in the General Assembly. No incumbent lieutenant governor has been ousted in Vermont since 1815, a fact that Rodgers highlighted in his acceptance speech. "If 209 years of history is any measure, I believe that my election proves that Vermonters from both parties want all of us to work together,"…