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The Vermont Senate on Thursday narrowly overrode Gov. Phil Scott’s vetoes of charter changes that allow noncitizens in Winooski and Montpelier to vote in local elections.In votes of 20-10, Senate Democrats met the two-thirds majority necessary to.
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In most states in America, an elected lawmaker doesn’t do a full-time job and isn’t paid for it, either. That fact can be a barrier to seeking office. But in Vermont, for the first time, women hold the four top posts in its legislature. Some of their proposals would help both would-be politicians and ordinary caregivers of children and older adults.
“We need more flexibility in the workplace and more recognition that women often have two jobs: taking care of the family and being at work,” says former Gov. Madeleine Kunin. She acknowledges that some things haven’t changed since she became Vermont’s first (and so far only) female governor in 1985. For example, Vermont is the only state that has never sent a woman to Congress.
weekly political column. Tim Newcomb
Kevin Burgess, the Vermont Democratic Party s director of outreach, quit earlier this month, citing a toxic work environment and a complete and utter failure of party leadership. Days later,
Scott McNeil, the party s executive director, announced he s leaving, too. The Vermont GOP is also in disarray, split between fealty to and disdain for former president
Donald Trump. Burlington s 19-year-old GOP chair,
Kolby LaMarche, recently called on state party chair and Trump supporter
Deb Billado to resign. When that didn t happen, he stepped down himself. Meanwhile, groups such as Emerge Vermont, an affiliate of a national group that recruits and trains Democratic women to run for office, and the newly formed Bright Leadership Institute, a stand-alone, nonpartisan group supporting candidates of color, have taken up some of the functions former