Carina Driscoll Credit: Jon Shenton

She’s running.

Carina Driscoll, the stepdaughter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), on Monday announced she’ll run for Burlington mayor. Driscoll, who said she’ll run as an independent, will challenge incumbent Democrat Miro Weinberger, who’s up for reelection in March. Another independent candidate, Infinite Culcleasure, announced on Friday that he’ll run.

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“Through this campaign, and then as mayor if elected, I will work to bring Burlington to again be that vibrant, forward-thinking city where we are
all so proud to live,” Driscoll said in a press release. “It is time to bring our actions in Burlington back into line with our community values.”

Driscoll told Seven Days last month that she was considering a run.

The lifelong Burlington resident, who described herself as a “civic leader and entrepreneur,” previously served on the Burlington School Board, the city council and in the Vermont legislature. She currently runs the Vermont Woodworking School in Fairfax with her husband, Blake Ewoldsen.

The couple and their two children live in Burlington’s South End.

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Sasha Goldstein is Seven Days' deputy news editor.

28 replies on “Carina Driscoll, Bernie Sanders’ Stepdaughter, Announces Run for Burlington Mayor”

  1. Another crook in the family running for election.. shouldn’t she clear up the charges that mommy dearest funneled money from Burlington College to her “woodworking school” while president of Burlington college????

  2. Dont let this daughter of the two greatest crooks in Vermont anyware by the Burlington bank accounts they will be empty in days. The apple does not fall far from the tree. She is as dirty as her mommy Jane and her dirty step dad Bernie. Never vote Carina in and
    #timetovotethebaldguysout

  3. Weinberger and Sanders.

    Really? Are you sure there are no better choices out there? Anyone? Please?

  4. Burlingtonians, call your local Federal Prosecutor and demand they prosecute those directly involved in the demise of Burlington college, Including Jane Sanders and Carina Driscoll!

  5. So does Bernie get to transfer all of his unused campaign money to her or does she just use the $500,000 she “earned” from Burlington College???

  7. Through this campaign, and then as mayor if elected, I will work to bring Burlington to again be that vibrant, forward-thinking city where we are all so proud to live,” Driscoll said in a press release. “It is time to bring our actions in Burlington back into line with our community values.

    This is completely meaningless blather. It is empty happy-speak. It’s “Make Burlington Great Again!”

    Vibrant and forward-thinking? Like under Progressive administrations when we didn’t build any housing, didn’t pay our pension liabilities, and secretly gave away $17 million to a foundering telecom company?

  8. Well, you can’t say this woman doesn’t have a lot of nerve thinking there are enough Burlington residents ignorant enough to vote for her to be mayor while many still mourn the death of Burlington College. And the ongoing scandal over her mother’s shady role in its demise. Carina Driscoll is no Bernie Sanders and trying to parlay his popularity for her own aggrandizement after her mother doled out cushy jobs is par for the course.

    Here’s a few questions Driscoll will never truly answer: How does she justify the outrageously padded six-figure salary her mother gave her to run a woodworking class at the struggling college? Is the FBI still investigating the college’s misappropriation of loans during her mother’s tenure as president? How did her and her mother’s overly generous pay help to speed the demise of this institution?

    It’s pretty hard to kill an entire college, that takes quite a bit of manipulative self-serving incompetence. Although given the corruption displayed by selling BT to a private family firm dismissed by all except a republican councilor, and then the petty behavior of councilors led by Knodell and Hartnett to reject the high bidder Ting because it was the choice of democrats, Driscoll probably figures she’ll slither right in to Burlington’s political club of stupidity and corruption.

  9. Good luck Carina. I saw what you achieved at Vermont Woodworking which is a lot. I have nothing against Miro, but fresh eyes and minds are welcome.

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