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Article: No Stranger in the Kingdom; Winston Dowland: native Vermonter, Navy vet...and new Progressive Party star
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- Seven Days
- Article date:
- January 12, 2005
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When Winston Dowland ran for state legislator as a Progressive last fall, he admits he didn't think he'd win. His candidacy was a long shot - the 62-year-old Holland resident was the first Progressive candidate to run in his two-seat district in the state's Northeast Kingdom. He and a long-shot Democrat ran against two popular Republican incumbents - Loren Shaw, who'd ousted a pro-civil-union Democrat in the anti-gay backlash of 2000, and Nancy Sheltra, the stridently conservative eight-term legislator from Derby.
It seemed unlikely that a Progressive could unseat either. After all, the party's left-leaning statement of principles advocates nuclear disarmament and decries "white ...