Emma Mulvaney-Stanak
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Burlington’s City Council is comprised of twelve councilors who represent the city’s eight wards and four districts. Each numeric ward (1-8) has a councilor; each pair of wards makes up a district (North, East, Central, South), also represented by a councilor. This means each Burlingtonian is represented by two councilors. This system has been in…
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As results rolled in on March 5th, the scene at Zero Gravity was raucous. Whispers circulated—could it be? Had we won? We waited for the pesky Ward 5 to get called, with Emma Mulvaney-Stanak (EMS) in the lead by about 1,000 votes. The tension was palpable. Ward 5 came in. The crowd let out a…
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Former Senator Patrick Leahy, Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman, former Burlington Mayor Peter Clavelle, Attorney General Charity Clark, and practically the rest of Vermont’s political rolodex walk into a room. It’s not the beginning of a joke–it’s Organization Day at City Hall. In addition to the bigwigs, a few hundred Burlingtonians turned out to watch now-Mayor…
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Today marks Organization Day, the auspiciously-named event of swearing in new city councilors, and for the first time in twelve years, a new mayor. Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, the first queer person and first woman to ever become Mayor of Burlington, is a lifelong member of the Progressive Party. She served on the Burlington City Council from…
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