Burlington’s foreign policy has languished since the Sanders-Clavelle era, when the Queen City palled around with Sandinista Nicaragua and with cities in Russia, Israel and the Occupied West Bank. But Burlington’s current mayor, Miro Weinberger, may be able to plug the city back into global politics.
“Excited for long-time friend — world will be better place,” Weinberger tweeted on Wednesday in response to the news that President Obama has chosen Samantha Power to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Burlington’s mayor is a long-time friend of the special assistant to the president, and senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights on the National Security Council?
Yep.
Turns out Weinberger became buds with Power long before she acquired that mouthful of a job title in 2009. The two met as baseball radio announcers at Yale, and later were housemates for two years in Cambridge, Mass., while both attended Harvard. Power was also a member of the wedding party when Weinberger married the former Stacy Sherwat 13 years ago.
“We were very good friends throughout college,” Weinberger said in an interview on Thursday. The two bonded through sports. Power played basketball and ran cross-country at her high school in Atlanta. Weinberger was a member of the Woodstock Union High School baseball team that won a state championship in 1987, and he’s currently catcher for Burlington’s entry in the Vermont Men’s Senior Baseball League.
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