Negative mailers, being nice, and what's different about campaign 2024?

October 25, 2024: Journalist John Walters weighs in on what seems new and different about the campaigns happening in Vermont this year. In a state that prides itself on make-nice politics, are we seeing more divisiveness in 2024?

John Walters' blog The Vermont Political Observer: https://thevpo.org

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".

Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.