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. Excluding high end housing, student housing, and since you don’t count it, affordable housing, how many units of housing is the Sinex tower really going to create?

  2. 188 units of affordable housing, and 18 units of market-rate housing, in Burlington in 20 years. Yes, Mr. Hoffer, that’s a Prog miracle.

  3. “Wow. 188 units in . . . 19 years.”

    In a post in another article you said 20. Then I corrected you and you said 18. Then I corrected you again. Now you say none. When corrected yet again, you say 188 is too little. You really have no shame.

    And of course the total is not 188. That’s the number of affiordable units. The report states that 1,773 units of housing were added from 1990 – 2015 (15% affordable as required by the ordinance). The people who made that happen deserve our respect.

  5. knowyourassumptions is at it again

    you said that “Progressive administrations…didn’t build any housing”
    that is false and you know it

    a recent report found that 188 affordable units were produced from 1990 – 2009, and that’s just what resulted from the (Progressive-initiated) inclusionary zoning ordinance, and doesn’t include activity from 2009 -2012, which was the end of the Bob Kiss era
    https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/sites/default…

    not sure why you insist on knowingly posting false information

  6. Please look aT Carina Driscolls Property tax records for the year she bought and remodeled her Scarff Ave home. Some how when it came time to pay her property taxes surprise surprise she turned her pockets inside out and said ohhh whow is mee I only make 40k a year rebate all of my tax money. After spending hundreds of thousands nothing for the teachers, fire fighters, police, city officials, pension fund. But the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree Jane and Bernie Sanders stay fat and happy by abusing the free and reduced lunch tax deduction for millionaires and billionaires.

    Enough with these venal greedy entitled bratty children of politicians the class of you know who I am Clinton goon or the Trump scum we don’t need Sanders NEPOTISM in Burlington go away .

    Help Bernie rename another post office and tell him Obama and the Dems holed us with 9 trillion to pay off while he renamed Danville’s post office. A good name may be the house of paper paste and spit or in Bernie’s case along with the rest of the geriatric stale ideas crew ripping us off in DC …

    Democrat drooling dotard dunces.

  7. Fact: Carina Driscoll was an active Burlington City Counselor AND Burlington School Board Member 10+ years ago, way before Bernie’s meteoric rise. Carina’s past and future service to the city should be judged on its own merits. Let’s keep the conversation to the issues at hand.

  8. I have an idea how Carina Driscoll can more effectively help her community other than by running for political office!

    She can teach a class about how we can get our mothers to use their positions to pay us half a million dollars for a self-created job. I bet there are lots of woodworkers and other artists in town who would love to know how to earn this kind of money from a parent.

    Even a parent like Jane Sanders, who is a stain on Bernie’s wonderful legacy. She represents everything that is wrong with politics and leadership, and I have no doubt her grasping daughter emulates her ethics. I hope the FBI investigation results in large fines and community service for what Jane Sanders did to that school and her insidious actions against our beautiful Burlington. Heaven help us if we let her daughter anywhere near our purse strings.

  9. As a starting point, I guess I’d like to know what Burlington’s “community values” are and how the current administration has strayed from them. Second, I understand how some people can be disappointed with outcomes like Moran, BT, and the mall redevelopment. But in every instance, “public participation” was NOT the problem. BT was ranked last in viability by independent evaluators, but they still made it to the final round of three precisely because of public pressure. The Moran plant has had 20+ years and multiple public processes to find a workable solution for that property, but every effort has failed because no viable contender could be found. The mall redevelopment only got a green light after the voters (including Driscoll) went to the polls in support of it. I’m curious to see how Driscoll’s magic wand could have changed any of these outcomes.

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