Article: A Failure to Communicate?

OPEN SEASON ON VT POLITICS

Docs history repeat itself? Todays Burlington City Council shenanigans including Democratic efforts to block one or more of the mayor's annual appointees - suggest so. For readers who remember the Queen City in June 1981, June 2009 feels like "déjà vu all over again."

In 1981, the great communicator - Republican Ronald Reagan - was in the White House, and a self-described socialist - Bende Sanders - was the Queen City's mayor. Council Dems were bitter that their candidate, Gordon Paquette, had lost by 10 votes to Sanders. So they set out to block almost every appointment the Brooklyn carpetbagger tried to make. Reasoning? Keep the Paquette folks in power until ...

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