h, brian chena and troy hedrick will be joining him brian chena returning from from Previous service. Yep. We also have barba rachelson, uh, mary catherine stone We have jill krowinski, uh, kate logan who we heard from earlier in the evening And we've got our winewski numbers in here. We have daisy berbeco joining taylor small. Yeah In essyx, we have Two seats here. So it looks like ray garifano, uh, incumbent returning to a seat joined by leonara dot lean I'm sorry leonora dodge only one out of two reporting But pretty strong leads over the challengers marie stun barron and denis white Yeah In milton, we have julie andrew's democrat beating out allison ducat republican pretty close Pretty close two out of two reporting though. So it looks like she's in. Yeah and uh That's some of the contested seats that we've seen come through. We've reported on a lot of these throughout the night A lot of recaps. Um, we mentioned emma mulvaney stanek there real quick. Uh, she's returning to brolinton legislature We have an interview with her at the progressive party at re-raws. So let's check in with emma Sorry about that. We'll take a look at that in a moment here. Um, we'll return to our interview with emma mulvaney stanek What do you think of the night so far, uh, christine? Well, it's I think there's definitely a trend here of We saw a lot of new faces coming into these races But where there are incumbents we're seeing those folks for the most part carry through so On the whole this could be a good thing, right? We're getting some new voices new ideas into the state house But we still have some of that institutional knowledge and Folks who understand the procedure and and some of the history of what we've already worked through in the last few years right and you know this this This election season a lot of new faces But you know some some races that may weren't super competitive You know 60 and 30 percent a lot of those types of things. Maybe the primary was the more competitive race this year Yeah, very true And particularly with some of these unopposed seats A lot in the burlington south burlington area Not as exciting nights for those folks. Um But for those of us in, uh, maybe Essex winewski, um williston Chittenden north district it has been something to watch this evening. Yeah And you know, we're still collecting results as still this is a Later this could be a later night for a lot of folks. So we were talking earlier this evening about The prevalence of mail-in voting This election I remember when I was scheduling forums, uh a little while ago I was thinking about mail-in voting and how much of those mail-in votes were going to come in But for town meeting day there weren't as many as expected For the general election, maybe with more interest than town meeting day A lot of mail-in votes and that might have clogged up the polls a little bit Yeah, so I definitely saw that in winewski. Um You know, you're supposed to bring your if you don't vote by mail and bring that ballot in when you vote in person A lot of folks didn't know about that. So there's some extra logistics there, but Definitely feels like the mail ballots actually turned a lot of people out About the turnout higher and that'll be interesting to see how high the turnout is this this season. Definitely We have that uh emma mulvaney stanek interview ready for you. So let's uh, let's check out what they got over there So i'm stan representative emma mulvaney stanek. I represent chinin 17, which is half of the old Earthen half of the new Northen So what does it mean to you to be a part of the progressive party? Well, I have a long history of the progressive party. I ran for city council back in 2009 And served for two terms on the growlings and city council as a progressive from the old earthen And then I was the chair for the state party for another four years really helping to recruit a lot of candidates all over the state to run as Progressives and we're really successful in building the party. This is all on days after this election coming from the lieutenant governor for the first time So it's an exciting moment of work And one of the main reasons why i'm a member of the party back then and still today is it really is the alternative to a democratic party While our paper speaks a lot of values that we have a comment but in action Doesn't necessarily move policy that centers working people and centers Centers in the anti-racist analysis need And really also putting on on the map some leader in a lot of these policy areas around negotiations around Pulling the conversations for us and we can really go back to our days and you know, we'll be things like heritage equality I mean some of the first because that's what we're watching is really neat So you just mentioned plenty of issues that the progressive party is working roles constantly Would you say that there's one issue in particular that you find to be really important during this election specifically? Well, I there's probably three but if you want one in particular I had three well, I wasn't like organizer for many years working for teachers and support staff in the non-sport world So economic justice is really such a bread and butter issue everyone and income and equality continues to grow It's harder for people to make make their basic needs even before inflation has happened And so and I think we're still recovering economically from the pandemic So we have a lot to address and conversations around issues of pay family As a mom of two small kids, I'll tell you we have a child care crisis Not only in what we pay early educators, but having a board of child care is critically important for families It's critically important for employers and it requires some public investment and some public good So we really need to move it. But the needle on that is how to take this next session the money there And you know, and other economic justice issues are related to workers rights in the workplace Most people work without unions. Unfortunately in places that swap orders in Vermont and Vermont can do a lot more for technical work Just cause employment rights through camping fire and for any reason Reliable work schedules for folks who are in the industries like service and retail So they have a reliable work schedule to be to call back on to get child care I mean, it's all independent and the other two issues, frankly I don't know any state that can't be I don't know any state that cannot be having a real conversation around reproductive Liberty and reproductive protection beyond constitutional protections But actually practically how can they actually access care? How can they access portions contraception? How do they make sure they can take time off of work to actually go to the clinic While we have access in better ways than many other states There are still economic barriers that prevent people from accessing care And the finalist show to start to say again as a mom is firearms and Vermont's very loose downlaws It's time for us to be bold there again Cannot like I feel like every day that goes by when there's another school shooting somewhere in the country or another You know, we are mixed with people and then also also in the state The high number of people who commit suicide by gun It is a crisis so It's another issue that I think we really need to grapple with that So as someone who's involved in government, how do you Use community media to reach the residents of Burlington? And also just to participate in democracy and encourage others to participate in democracy Well, I love public access and one of the best parts when I was in city council is all of that locally is Take to record even before the pandemic and I do think that state government has to get more accessible because everything we provide is on steam and It's been streamed out in a lot of public access kind of ways, but it keeps it keeps um Our democracy example to go so it keeps it accessible to folks to gather information Especially when people are very busy and due to capitalism have to work two or three jobs I mean, it's a reality that a lot of people then get disconnected from issues that should correctly impact our lives So community media and public access is vital for our tolerance So Well, thank you so much for speaking with us tonight Of course, thank you so much Thanks to the folks at reraws The team that went out to reraws to get some of those interviews and thanks to emmo mulvaney stanek for chatting with us We have a brenna seagull consistent speech for the governorship. We don't have a Phil scott at the republican party But we do have this brenna seagull speech. So let's check in with her Good evening everyone. I just spoke to the governor and congratulated him on his win I'm gonna start by saying that susan b anthony gave her whole life to the work of voting rights for women her whole life And then she died on the eve of its inevitability The work is about making progress Fighting for us to have safer and stronger communities We all Need to become brave enough to lose All of us One thing that stuck out to me throughout this race was how important it was Not only That someone ran But that that person be someone with knowledge experience guts And most importantly the lived experience to make clear What we face What is going wrong And what work we all have to do All of us have to do to make it better as public figures and elected leaders We can get lost in outcomes or wins But the outcomes that matter most are if we get housing to all vermonters If we begin to make change across the finish line For strong bold action for climate If we have adequate child care and if we stop burying our children from overdose and suicide At some point in this campaign I turned to my team and I said Let's fight like hell to win But also Let's fight like hell to win on the issues Because losing on the issues is not an option for me We 100 without fail won on the issues and we did not just win We knocked it out of the park beyond compare Not there beating the drum when v-wrap and e-wrap was cut off without notice If I had feared at all speaking truth to power when this administration was ready to cause harm We would not have found found 20 million dollars We would not have a new commissioner of dcf And we would not see a scramble to do something Yet I was just at a meeting last night. We ended this campaign just as we started it Meeting with people experiencing homelessness So I was at a meeting with people utilizing the hotel program and through tears People told me there are immense fear of being dumped back in the street.  We have to do something I'm not done and I need all of you standing with me and these folks are ready to tell their stories And we are going to help them do just that We broadcast that child care money wasn't getting out the door and now it is We used a megaphone about the needs of our downtowns We shared bravely and explicitly about the overdose crisis and the need for us to move forward We will get overdose prevention sites this year because we were not afraid and I am not done yet This year, I will work with the legislator to introduce a comprehensive bill on the overdose crisis And with all of your help, we will get it done I want to turn to the 845 families because this is personal Who lost loved ones and promise you that your loved ones will not die in vain We will fix this for other families no matter how long it takes And in that 845 families Included was my nephew Kaia Siegel and while I have the platform I want to turn to my dad who's here tonight and say Though I was there I can't imagine what it was like to bury your first son and your first grandson And I say to you That they will not die in vain I won't let them We talked about climate and the clean heat standard and corrected the record on that and we drove home the need For the build on in-state renewable energy and we are going to get some serious climate action this year What we have shown throughout this entire race is that vermonters are worth fighting for And that there are a lot of wins even in a long shot race We ran an incredible truly tireless Though we are tired But tireless relentless Disciplined tenacious campaign and we did absolutely everything we could we left all of it on the field I want to start though by thanking my staff page Diana shopman my campaign manager who's home with covid long covid Shanae chase clifford Who is the Who is the master of debate prep and you all saw me absolutely crush it in debates, right? And and also thank you becka white and kate lap for debate prep as well chris lamb Who is an og staffer and did a lot for data finance call time and filled in all the gaps Zoe flag olay who came in at the end to do admin admin work Nick clark who was our pinch hitter when we needed him And there's one person I want to shout out and thank who needs no introduction But mira macy her whole life And it was a rocky start But anyone on the team will tell you that she is now my champion staffer She is my right hand woman She did so much and she learned all of it on the job. Thank you all For the absolutely incredible job on a tough race I want to say about them That they also took on this same risk The same one I did They did it anyways They rose anyways and we need to recognize how hard that is to do not just for me But also for them And trust me it is hard I also want to say that there's some special champions in this race. You all know who you are You came out early for us. You kept showing up my whole team noticed when you showed up Special big ups to governor howard dean And And all of the legislators who championed this race and all of my supporters who believed in a vermont Where all can feel loved and supported It may not have been the outcome we wanted But it was way better than most imagined And we nailed down the things that mattered most of vermonters because of all of you We will get those things across the finish line this session Or in the coming sessions and that's no small triumph. It is in fact huge My most important thank yous are to my family my dad who has stood by me every step of the way My mom who quietly sent me emails and texts and phone calls of encouragement But didn't ever ask for a return call and the one who deserves the most praise Is ajna segal my son It is not easy when for our kids when we run for office It is not easy for them when we don't have the outcomes we want But ajna has shown up at events stood behind me been in a commercial And held debate watch parties And as of today he has Has a tattoo in my logo That he showed me when he got here That was his gift to me. I didn't know about it He championed his mama Ajna segal, I love you Here's our concession speech from uh brenna segal Um still uh phil scott no sign of phil scott at the republican party But does look like a lead for phil definitely Let's go back to a to a recap. We have some results to report. We're going back to chitin and north We can report this fully The or well, let's we can yeah, we could Little cross communication there phil scott still looking ahead, but let's go to chitin and north Check in with that one which we are calling Um We're results on with iran renner Eeking out over leelin morgan Um 51 percent to 48 percent. That's yeah, that's 300 votes super close. Wow Yeah That was a nail biter. That was definitely yes um, and then let's go to chitin central real quick And uh chitin central the same story as before phil baruth martin gulik and tanya bayovsky Looking like they're going to the senate 17 out of 18 reporting there. So pretty close to pretty close to reported. Yeah, and let's check out the southeast here Once again, it's going to be it's the incumbents. The similar is what we talked about before Thomas chitin and jinny lions in case you're on hinsdale. Yeah, we've got eight out of 12 So that's pretty strong lead there for that group. Yeah, let's go over to williston Take a look at that williston race. I'm going to hop over there real quick Um the district two. Yeah district two. We got erin brady angela arsono um Looking like they're going to take those two seats the two democrats over the two republicans Yep, 30 31 34 percent there versus 16 and 17. Yeah Let's hop over to heinsberg here. Heinsberg district four We've got one seat here. It looks like phil poosh the democrat. Um, we'll be taking that over saratis gano the republican 72 to 27 percent Um, go over to brolington district 13. This is that tiff bloomley Um, gabby stebbin win over tim lakata that we've talked about a few times here That's looking pretty solid as well. Yeah strong strong support for those two seats there Let's go to winewski district 21 This one we have taylor small and daisy bribeco Going to the legislature over jordan matt 43 and 42 percent there interestingly with uh, the Here's one of those scenarios where the incumbent doesn't have the the full lead but pretty close. Yeah Then we'll go over to uh district 22. This is a sx junction in the city of sx junction area We have lori houghton and karen dolin Looking like they're going over seth adam manley Yeah, they'll be returning to the legislature Then district 23 to sx town This one is leonardo dodge and ray garrafano democrats over marie stun bar and denis white republicans This one is interesting right had there been one republican candidate would that have turned out a little bit different? It's a good. That's a good question. That's a good question. Yeah Um, let's check out our our ballot items. We talked a lot about the ballot items earlier on in the night Uh, not a lot of change over there, but we can see what we we're still looking at the cswd murph Um materials recovery facility is still resounding. Yes 81 percent People want people want the murph. Yeah 18 out 25 reporting. So it's looking like that's going to move forward Similar strong support on the uh the berlington high school bond which we reported on earlier. Yep 75 percent there And then our communications union district looks like it's moving forward as well And let's see what we have for we have a yes vote from Williston sx sx junction and south berlington. Is that right? Yes, we do so Most of these towns joining this communication union district so far. Yeah, it sounds like that plan is going to move forward as as designed. Yep Um, and then let's go let's just check in an sx junction real quick sx junction had uh several extra ballot items On their ballot this year a lot of procedural stuff from being a new city So things like are you going to join green mountain transit authority? Winooski valley parks district. Are you going to give liquor licenses and you're going to sell wine and spirits? Yeses yeses on that with that split from sx sx town You know, they have to revote on are we retaining these memberships in these processes and yes to all of those so No changes then I would say that means for sx junction 435 votes though still against uh malton malt liquor and wine so interesting interesting. Yeah Um, we do have a speech from bec abalant at the democratic party at hula So let's go check in and hear from bec abalant Hello Hello vermont Thank you for monters Thank you for your vote Thank you for your confidence in me Thank you for giving me this incredible honor and opportunity to serve this state that I love so much Thank you. Thank you I just received a call from leah madden conceding the race I want to thank leah for his candidacy and for his service to our country We both share a deep commitment to vermont. He's actually from my home county of windham county And I know he's going to continue to serve his community well So thank you leah for running. It's important to run and of course I have to give so much credit to The best congressional delegation in the whole country, which is the vermont delegation I meet a lot of people from across the nation and legislatures from other states and they say you are so lucky You've got the giant of the senate Patrick lehi, of course as we know Unparalleled service to vermont We've got peter welch who has been a mentor and a friend to me who's going to help me Succeed in the house Yeah It is and of course bernie sanders who's been uh the conscience of the nation and I was so So honored to have his support. It really Gave us so much energy in the home stretch. So Thank you to all Of those men who have served us so well. I can't wait to be a colleague With the senior and junior senator from vermont. Thank you So i'm i'm standing here with my family and my team Because tonight We reaffirm that vermont And the nation is still a place Where anything is possible We are all still capable of change And promise and progress and tonight After 231 years vermonters are sending a woman to congress So so thank you to my incredible campaign team For hard work and hustle and commitment and joy so much joy I know Everybody says this but it's true the best campaign team in politics I thank you Thank you for your deep commitment To vermont and to this movement this movement of so many people here in vermont I want to thank also my incredible campaign manager natalie silver As natalie and i like to say we're we're two scrappy little broads watch out I want to just thank Most sincerely my my close friend and advisor julia barns so julia barns I thank you for believing in me and for helping me to believe That it was possible for us to do this incredible thing together. Thank you. Thank you And of course, thank you so much to my family to my parents to my siblings to my extended family But most of all to my spouse elizabeth and our two kids abe and sarah who are with me tonight We always said in our family that running for congress was Really a family project. It's not just about one person And it really is it is is a project and the three of us have made three of you, excuse me There are actually four of us. Yes You can tell it's been a year. I'm a little tired The three of you have made incredible sacrifices to get me to this place and Being in politics is incredibly lonely at times It's really lonely, but it's not work that's done alone It's done in a team and we are a very tight team in this family Team balance wall. You are my rock. You are my refuge. I honestly could not be here without you Thank you so I have said over and over on this campaign that this is a time for courage I know I know so many of us feel like these are such dark times And it's so easy to be cynical about politics But if we those of us on the stage if we had believed the conventional wisdom If we had believed that change was impossible, I would not be standing here tonight So take note and take heart Vermont is a place where kindness and integrity and courage matter Vermont is a place where the daughter of an immigrant dad and a working class mom Can be the first woman and the first gay person to represent Vermont in the u.s. House of representatives So there are so so many brave women leaders who gave me the courage and the hope over my lifetime to do this and those strong women who have come before me Have helped me to feel like I could Possibly have a life in politics and you know some of their names They're incredible women like Shirley Chisholm and Ann Richards and Bella Abzug and Geraldine Ferraro And someone you may not have heard of but whose name I need to bring into the room tonight Her name was Elaine Noble She was the first openly gay person to run for a legislature in the United States. It was 1975 It was Massachusetts State House. She experienced so much hatred and discrimination and When I learned of her race and her victory There was this little part of me that thought maybe Maybe maybe someday she's still alive and I just want us to remember that it's people like Elaine Noble Who did this at a time when it was incredibly dangerous to do so That enabled me to run today Another another hero of mine is congresswoman Barbara Jordan who I know many of you know She was the first black woman elected to the Texas Senate and the first black woman Who was elected from the south to represent uh in the u.s. House of representatives. She said this of our nation We are a people In a quandary about the present We are a people in search of our future We are a people in search of a national community That is still true now. We are a people in search of a national community I've been all over the state during this campaign everywhere I go every town Every meet and greet somebody will say to me Becca I don't want to hate my neighbors I don't want to fear my neighbors I want to live in a community where we can talk to each other again So if you feel this way in this crowd, you're not the only one feeling that way Thousands of vermonters are feeling that way and I know thousands of people across the country are feeling this way We cannot continue to demonize each other We have to stop and really see each other See how much we share even when we disagree even when we hear hateful words Every parent Regardless of their political party Worries about their kids futures Every working family right now is anxious and uncertain about how they're going to make ends meet We're all afraid for the planet all of us. We're afraid for the freedoms that we hold dear And those fears are justified and I know congressman welch spoke to this early. Oh senator elect Senator elect So so as as senator elect welch said earlier, we know what's at stake It's not just the next two years This is going to take a long time to write this ship We got to dig deep We got to find our courage We have to find our strength. We have to lift each other up Because even if we get good news in the midterms the work is not over. We have a democracy to save So so yes, yes, this is a time for great courage It's a time for leaders who are courageous enough to say that our politics do not work for regular people This is a time for leaders To fight as hard for other people's right to vote as they fight for their reelection This is a time for us to end the politics that fuel corporate greed This is a time for us to rebuild the middle class and bring us together This is a time to say that affordable health care and stable housing for all Will make us a stronger nation Not a weaker one But most of all My challenge your challenge the challenge of all of us Is to have the everyday courage that will knit us back together as a nation We have to listen truly to each other even when we disagree Not so that we can just argue But so we can truly understand where somebody is coming from Let's have the courage to listen with compassion But to also speak with conviction Let's have also the courage to know what's non-negotiable And let's have the courage to know When we're actually wrong And we need to change our view That takes real courage So a lot of Vermonters ask me why I still have hope Why am I running for congress at this time? I feel so dark Why do I see the light despite all the obstacles? I'm hopeful Because of people who came before me like Shirley Chisholm and Bella Abzug I'm hopeful because of Ann Richards and Geraldine Ferraro and Barbara Jordan and Elaine Noble I'm hopeful because those courageous leaders made it possible for me to be here tonight See I'm hopeful because I never thought I'd be standing here Really? It was a pipe dream I didn't know anyone in politics My parents didn't know anyone in politics It seemed like such a strange notion to think I could run for office someday But we did it We did it because of thousands and thousands of Vermonters who stood with us gave us five bucks ten bucks fifteen bucks made thousands And thousands of calls. I think we made five hundred and thirty five thousand calls And we we knocked on thousands of doors And we believed that we could reject cynicism And believe in each other and believe in a grassroots movement that could be fierce And joyful The windham county senate seat for the first time because I refused to accept that the richest nation in the world That the richest nation in the world could not take care of working families could not house them could not feed them Could not give them health care I had kids in my own classroom Who I know were we're living in tents or in cars Whose parents were struggling with addiction I still believe That we have to turn towards each other in our communities. That's how That's how we're gonna find our way through For each other And for our communities When we started out in this race we were down in the polls We didn't have a lot of money We didn't have a lot of endorsements But we never stopped believing that if we pulled people together And ran an authentic genuine race where people could see what I was about That they would come to us Because they wanted something different This campaign has Proved that incredible power of connection We are craving it We're a nation that is fraught with loneliness and disconnection This campaign renewed my hope In the power and the spirit that comes from truly seeing one another And listening deeply And being joyful together I know that Vermonters believe that politics can be different. That's why we won That's why we won I give you Give you my word tonight That I will not back down from hard fights in washington I will carry your hopes and your wishes and your stories with me I will stay rooted in our communities here in vermont and I will work for our most vulnerable neighbors every single day Thank you And I will do this I will be able to do this because I know you will be standing with me This past month has been incredible people stopping me at the store at the bank at the post office saying We're with you. You're going down. You're doing this hard thing Thank goodness you want to do it because I don't want to do it I heard that more and more and more or what's wrong with you or you're too tiny to do it all the things I heard all the things But I will be able to do it because of the belief you've had in this campaign You believe in this movement because we're fighting for climate action We're fighting for universal health care. We're fighting for livable wages for reproductive rights for the safety Of our trans and queer neighbors for racial equity for common sense gun laws For families across the state who want a better life for their kids and grandkids For a nation finally as good as its promise So So please please have courage Stand firm be compassionate find hope and nurture it We need this of each other our nation depends on this our future depends on this We must give each other the courage to do all of this important work together Thank you Here we have it uh Becca Ballant with her um victory speech um Coming in with 60 of the vote over leah madden's 27 of the vote We've got 200 towns reporting. So that's looking pretty solid at this point Becca Ballant going to congress first woman vermont has sent to congress um christine had to run christine had work in the morning so I'm gonna bring us back through one last recap of all of our contested races And uh, let's start from the top with the state senate races Um We are starting with chitin in north. Well, we have the brunton high school bond here Once still a yes vote on that, but we'll hop over the state senate chitin in north We have iran renner winning out over lealan morgan just barely We have uh, then we have chitin in central district with uh phil baruth martin gulik and tanya vioffsky going to the senate In chitin in southeast. We have thomas chitin in jinny lions and um, keshawarm hinsdale going to the senate So that's all of our chitin in state senators is our first of the Seven this seven seat The split up of chitin of the chitin senate district. This is our first delegation from there Let's move on to our state representatives. Let's start with williston d2 um We have erin brady and angela arsono both democrats uh going to the legislature or bruce roy and anthony tony or rork Next let's go to heinsberg district four That's phil push, uh the democrat with 72 of the vote over sarah toscano Then at btv 13, we've got tiff bloomley and gabby stebbins over tom lakata In colchester district 19 We have serita austin and patrick brendan both incumbents serita austin's the democrat patrick brendan is the republican both going to the legislature Um, and then in colchester d20. We have kurt taylor and seth chase Two democratic incumbents beating out the republicans dugwood and tom lasage Let's go to winewski d21. We have daisy berbeco Uh democrat and taylor small progressive democrat incumbent Going to the legislature In sx junction. We have lori houghton and caron dolin both incumbent democrats going to the legislature over seth adam manley the republican In sx 23 we have leonara dodge and ray garifano beating out marise dunbar and denis white Um in sx town. We have elissa black Uh democratic incumbent beating out roger drury the republican in milton. We have julia andrew's democrat beating out allison duquette the republican And in chitin in franklin. We have chris taylor the republican and emily hecker the democrat Beating out chris mattos the republican incumbent. Uh interesting one Um then let's check out those ballot items earlier tonight. We saw Uh the berlington high school bond that is happening. Uh, that's a that was a yes vote Um looking at the cswd bond that was also a yes vote Um at the cud We have wiliston sx junction and south berlington all voting in favor of joining that communications union district Um and then going over to sx junction all of their uh new city Procedural ballot items were successful You can check out all of this information at results dot town meeting dot tv We'll have this up um tonight and into tomorrow so you can check that out and take a look at what the results were For your area. Uh, so thank you so much for joining us tonight For our 15th general election results show. Uh, i'm jordan butterfield. Uh, christine lot was here with me for most of the night Thank you to christine for helping us out and thank you to all of our volunteers Thank you to our van Colleagues who helped us out tonight And I want to once again tonight's show is dedicated in memory to our founder Nat air who inspired our exit voices poll interviews and was a key part of the cctv story Um, so thank you to everybody for joining us and we'll see you again in two years. Thank you