Bernie Sanders stepdaughter hopes to be Burlington mayor

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Bernie Sanders’ stepdaughter is hoping the city that launched her stepfather’s political career nearly 40 years ago will show her the same love in her run for mayor.

Carina Driscoll, the former city council member and state legislator, who now runs the Vermont Woodworking School, is challenging incumbent Democratic Mayor Miro Weinberger, who is seeking his third three-year term in the March 6 election.

Another independent and political newcomer, Infinite Culcleasure, is also in the race.

From her campaign office in the working class neighborhood of the lakeside college city of about 43,000, Driscoll speaks with some of the same conviction as Sanders about her community and the role of the mayor’s office, but has said she is her own candidate. She has the backing of the Progressive Party, described as a people-powered party engaged in grassroots organizing.

“Being Bernie’s daughter is one small piece, but it’s an important piece because it helps people understand the vision for Burlington that I’m talking about,” she told The Associated Press. “I am very committed to these values and ideals of a progressive city and we have drifted far too far from that. For me, it was a choice of quietly letting that continue or turning us around. And that is what I’m trying to do.”


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