MONTPELIER-After a red-hot election cycle two years ago, Vermont is due for a significantly sleepier campaign season, according to unofficial filings with the secretary of state's office.
Major party candidates were due to submit petitions to appear on the Aug. 13 primary election ballot by May 30, though it may take days for the candidate list to be finalized.
In stark contrast to 2022, all of Vermont's statewide incumbents up for reelection are running again this year. And most of them - including Republican Gov. Phil Scott, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and U.S. Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) - are facing challenges only from those who are relatively unknown or have lost in the past.
"Even when we have some turnover for governor, I still don't think we're going to see that kind of wholesale turnover ever again," said Vermont Democratic Party Executive Director Jim Dandeneau, in reference to the 2022 election. "That was a very unique circumstance, and the turnover is what made it high-key, right?"...
Citing “extensive and pervasive” damage to crops, Gov. Phil Scott is requesting that the U.S. Department of Agriculture issue a disaster declaration because temperatures plunged into the low 20s across Vermont for hours in mid-May, freezing vulnerable young buds on thousands of fruits. In a letter sent to U.S.
As thousands of Vermonters experiencing homelessness stand to lose their state-funded emergency shelter come July, Secretary of Human Services Jenney Samuelson said she expects some of the estimated 2,500 people to “self-resolve” their lack of housing by the time the state winds down the pandemic-era program. “There are some...
Vermont voters love Gov. Phil Scott more than ever. According to results from the Vermont Secretary of State's Office, the 64-year-old incumbent was reelected to a fourth term on Nov. 8 with 71% of the vote - eclipsing his previous record in 2020 by more than 2 percentage points. The spread widened further this cycle, giving the governor a margin of nearly 47 percentage points. Town-by-town data released by the Secretary of State's Office showed that America's second-most popular governor...
Gov. Phil Scott's veto of Brattleboro's proposed charter change has prevailed, snuffing the town's hopes of allowing teens to vote and run in municipal elections. On March 31, the Senate failed to override Scott's veto of H.361. Fifteen senators voted in favor of overriding the governor and 12 voted against doing so. A two-thirds majority was required. In 2019, more than two-thirds of Brattleboro voters approved a charter amendment that would have allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to vote and run...