Help Put A Working Class Candidate And A Renter In The Vermont State Senate

There are 7,383 state legislators in the country— 1,972 state senators and 5,411 state reps. Until today, Blue America had endorsed a dozen out of these 7,383.

Today we endorsed another, incumbent state Senator Tanya Vyhovsky. We didn’t just endorse her because she’s a brilliant dedicated progressive, which she is. We endorsed her, for another reason as well— a reason we look at whenever we put a candidate on this page— is ether a chance they will be a future governor or congressmember or U.S. Senator or president? It doesn’t take long to happily realize the answer is a resounding YES in Tanya’s case.

Probably a bit to his left, this DSA member is Bernie’s state senator, in the central Chittenden district that includes most of Burlington, all of Winooski, a bit of Colchester, all of Essex Jct, and most of Essex Town, one of if not the most progressive districts in the state with zero Republicans elected to represent it at any level that is partisan, the representation is comprised of Democrats and Progressives (Vermont is one of the only if not the only state with 3 major parties— Democrat, Progressive and Republican and the ability to run “fusion” under multiple party labels)

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