One-party rule in Burlington will have to wait.
One year after Mayor Miro Weinberger won a landslide election, ending Democrats’ 30-year exile from Burlington City Hall, his party failed to win enough seats to claim a majority on the 14-member city council. Democrats picked up an open seat in the New North End, long a Republican stronghold, but Progressives recaptured a seat in the Old North End and an independent in Ward 1 hung onto her seat.
In the end, voters went for the better known candidates — and the result will be more divided government in the Queen City.
But the big story of the night was the drubbing of incumbent South Burlington city councilors Sandy Dooley and Paul Engels, who lost by two-to-one margins to challengers Chris Shaw and Patricia Nowak. The incumbents found themselves on the defensive about their vote against basing F-35 fighter jets at Burlington International Airport, and about the firing and $140,000 severance paid out to city manager Sandy Miller.
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Are you talking about the press release? A press release on an existing news story is a “nasty, digusting coordinated” attack?
Seems like the person being the most “nasty” here is you, Kurt. It’s politics for cry eye. If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.