Vermont Edition

Democratic primary for House seat heats up

By Connor Cyrus,

Published July 26, 2022 at 2:23 PM EDT

Early voters casts a ballot in Plainfield in 2008. — This hour, an update on the Democratic primary for Vermont's U.S. House seat.

The contest for Vermont's only seat in the U.S. House is heating up, with only two weeks until the August primary.

The Democratic primary is between state Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, Lt. Gov. Molly Gray and Dr. Louis Meyers. Candidate Sianay Chase Clifford announced last week that she was dropping out of the race.

Our guest:

Sasha Goldstein, deputy news editor at Seven Days

Broadcast live at noon on Tuesday, July 26, 2022; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Connor Cyrus

Connor Cyrus joined Vermont Public as host and senior producer in March 2021. He was a morning reporter at WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Lyndon State College (now Northern Vermont University), he started his reporting career as an intern at WPTZ, later working for WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine, and WCAX Channel 3, where he covered a broad range of stories from Vermont’s dairy industry to the nurses’ strikes at UVM Medical Center. He’s passionate about journalism’s ability to shed light on complex or difficult topics, as well as giving voice to underrepresented communities.

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Tedra Meyer

Tedra joined Vermont Public as a producer for Vermont Edition in January 2022. Before moving to Vermont, she was a journalist in New York City for 20 years. She has a master’s degree in journalism from New York University.

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