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It came down to just 129 ballots, but Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger prevailed in his proven leadership bid for a fourth term in office. Weinberger took 43% of the votes citywide; Progressive candidate Max Tracy, the City Council president, edged close with 42%. Thirteen percent of the votes went to third-place Ali Dieng, an independent city councilor for Ward 7. Pundits are still puzzling over what impact those votes had on the final outcome. Weinberger, 51, in his acceptance speech Monday night, said the close race and the record turnout drives home the need for the hard work to form a new consensus, and to create a Burlington that works for all. ....
I see Seven Days never bothered to note my candidacy for Burlington City Council in the Central District. Others have taken down my signs because we have a large group of authoritarians who cannot stand free speech or any speech that does not bow to their religious belief in a magical ability to change sex. Anyone who will not say men can be women if they say so is anathema to this self-righteous crew, which thinks that anything it does to a heretic is OK, including threats and robbery and violence. As I was putting up a sign, a hipster stopped his car to say, Take your hate somewhere else. I have lived here for over 50 years and was the first person to start a lesbian group here and an initiator of pride marches. But lesbian is a word you will rarely see now, except from men who claim to be one. ....
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Tiki Archambeau Tiki Archambeau was working from home last June when a man having a mental health crisis wandered into his driveway in Burlington s Old North End. Archambeau called the police, who arrived quickly and helped peacefully resolve the situation. That evening, Archambeau used Front Porch Forum to thank the officers for their work. He didn t expect the backlash that came next. A neighbor charged that Archambeau s words of gratitude were tone-deaf amid a nationwide reckoning over policing. The person accused Archambeau of diminishing the racial justice efforts in Burlington, where activists had demanded cuts to the police force a call the six Progressive members of the city council had embraced. ....