I knew Bernie well before he was elected mayor by a bunch of drugged up out-of-staters at the University of VT. He was a filthy hippy, sleeping on park benches.
That election was another example where Republicans screwed themselves by splitting the vote among three candidates. Ever since then, we’ve been a magnet for all the whack jobs from NY, MA, NJ, CT, DE, RI and CA.
I grew up in Connecticut and I had an uncle who lived in Burlington. We used to go up there every summer in the seventies and eighties, and enjoyed going to the beaches and fishing along Lake Champlain. It truly is a beautiful state despite its far left politics.