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T H E C H O I C E
'W A S C L E A RB E R N IE T A K E S
B U R L IN G T O N
By Jeff Good
ForBurlington Democrats,
the end came quickly, betnot painlessly. Ina base-
ment restaurant juS! sec-
onds awayfrom the office
that might 1 1 m < :been hers, judy
Stephany maintained abroM:front
last Thesday night, mingling andlaughing with party moguls.
Her
red-rimmed eyes told a diJICr-
ent tale,
Bedraggled bUI obviously
pleased, Bernie Sanders lum-
bered into the gathering shortly
after 10 p.m. After mumbling a
lew words 10Stephany , he quickly
left. ABSanders walked OUIthe
door, one member of the old
guard stuck out his longue.
"I'm disgusted," said Terry
Feeley, Stephany's campaign
manager. '" don't think people
realize whal they've got," sbe
added.
But got him they do, and theDemocrats and Republicans can
only watch as the Mayor and
other members of the city'snewest political establishmentgear up
for rapid movement on
issues new and old. The water-
front and southern connector
were cited by Sanders as prior-
tries at a post-etecuon news con-fcrence Wednesday. City
Treas-urer Jonathon Leopold,jr. added
that Sanders will push for using
f edera l dollars to begin COnSlrUC-
tionon 100 units
priced bousing bin the works is a
businesses, Leopol
could include tax
ders has also pled
women comm iss ioneralIygive women's
attention.
The fate of thelnitianves will h
cooperativeness o
Aldermen, which S
repeatedly stone
during his first teTuesday's electio
some of the faces
overall make-up
same, Five SanderC o8 IU o....
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BBRME:
It'olIIlMPS
idealists should shape the polit-
ical landscape - not business
owners.
The rise of the new class in
Burlington's political arena cor-
responds to the jump in the
number of}{lunger people and
renters. Ofthe38,000 city dwel-lers, 47 percent are between thea
s e s of l~ 3I}l,l34. SaidElizabeth
Bernstein,iJ.J)emocratic School
Board mc;mber who supportedGilson, ''The Sixties finally hit
\bmont" with the inllux of per-
sons who grew up in that dec-
a d e andstill want to"shake thingsup" through Sanders. .
While the city's DemocratiC
P a rt y has traditionally been runby the older property own~rsW
h o s e politics often clash WItht h o s e of the }{lung liberals,
.36-)'ear-old party Chairman BrianB r e n n a n said Thesday that
'the
D e m o c r a ts will ha\e to lurebad
