ambassador to the United Nations, once called Hillary Clinton a “monster” while working for Barack Obama, which is awesome, and has been a friend of Miro since the two announced baseball games together at Yale, before becoming roommates as each pursued advanced degrees at “ a little school in Cambridge” with $40 billion. In the shadows was former Yale & Harvard bestie Samantha Power, who went on to become the literal U.S. It included high-end lawyer and fellow “Yalie” Ian Carleton (go Bulldogs!) U Penn economics department graduate Dawn Moskowitz and fossil fuel industry veteran Paul Sisson. Weinberger’s campaign was managed by his Yale classmate Jessica Nordhaus. In place of the old-school Progs and veterans of the city’s social service organizations is a cabal of mostly fortysomething professionals with advanced degrees and young children - many of whom, like Weinberger himself, moved to Burlington a decade or so ago to raise families.
Literally from the Wikipedia article on “Gentrified Architecture”.Īt the time, Seven Days described the election as a “changing of the guard”: He faces his toughest challenge yet - a Left and Left-Center coalition supporting cutest & nicest City Council president Max Tracy a socialist-leaning crew poised to return the city into the warm, body-odored embrace of the Progressive Party, which originated in the 1980s under none other than Ornery Hannaford-Shopping Granddad Bernard “Mittens” Sanders. With a fourth election coming up in March, Miro is in the unfamiliar position of fighting for his job. At the same time, he finds himself in the wake of a number of awkward embarrassments, scandals, and accusations of corruption. But the bleeding pandemic economy has exaggerated the disconnect between our Luxury Mayor and the people he claims to represent. Weinberger, a graduate of both Harvard and Yale, certainly never tracked as “A Man of The People” to begin with. While some sleep on the streets and others struggle to feed their children in the midst of soaring unemployment and business closure, the mayor focuses on how rich the city is, overall, with staunch supporters like the Scully & Pomerleau families sitting on hundred-million-dollar fortunes, calling in favors when needed. He ’s less concerned with metrics surrounding income inequality. But if I wanted a Thatcherian Sugar Daddy to take me golfing, I’d pick someone with more money.Īlas! Instead of either being a Top Tier Silver Fox, or leading from a place of courage and moral vision, Miro obsesses over wonky Excel measurements like the city’s municipal credit rating.
He seems to be getting somewhat hotter as the grey hairs of fiduciary responsibility set in. He drives a Tesla, probably likes Condoleezza Rice, probably has an Anthony Fauci action figure, and projects a vibe somewhere between WALL-E and Data from Star Trek. He waxes philosophic about Racial Equality and his multi-racial (white-parented) family, while sh!t-posting Black activists who dare ask for material change. He marches in the Pride parade while incessantly gentrifying neighborhoods he does not live in.
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Miro Weinberger with his former BFF, City Place Developer Don Sinex, in 2016 (Zach Despart / Free Press)īurlington Mayor Miro Weinberger is the perfect Neoliberal.
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