The Democratic incumbent had been off the campaign trail for the last month after suffering a stroke. His Republican opponent ran an aggressive, highly visible digital campaign focusing on the clean heat standard and cultural issues popular among national Republicans.
Longtime incumbent Mark MacDonald has retained his seat in the Vermont Senate.MacDonald, a Williamstown Democrat, received 5,683 votes in the Orange senate district to defeat Republican John Klar, of Brookfield, who received 4,516 votes, according.
A failed measure to reform Vermont’s heating sector and the soaring cost of home heating fuels have helped define local legislative races across Vermont this cycle. At the same time, unprecedented political contributions from the fuel industry and.