Socialist Mayor Wins 4th Term in Vermont
Socialist Mayor Bernard Sanders easily won a fourth two-year term Tuesday as mayor of Vermont’s largest city.
“What we have shown after six years as the only independent progressive government in the United States is . . . we are getting stronger,” Sanders told supporters Tuesday night. “We have shown that fighting for world peace, fighting for economic justice, fighting for the poor, is an idea as American as apple pie.”
Sanders had 6,713 votes, or 56%, while Democrat Paul Lafayette had 5,335, or 44%, in unofficial returns. Lafayette conceded 90 minutes after the polls closed, paying tribute to Sanders and his supporters.
“The man is a real good politician and he has a real good organization,” Lafayette said.
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