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The buzz is growing for Rep. Becca White’s Windsor County Senate campaign and we wanted to share a few of the news pieces that covered the announcement.
The Valley News article “In the Senate the Young and the Restless” by Jim Kenyon
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No matter if White is knocking on doors or reaching out to voters via their smartphone videos, she’ll from getting across her personal story.
When Vermonters say they’re worried about “home instability” and the dire shortage of affordable housing, White talks from experience.
While she was growing up in Wilder, her family struggled at times to make ends meet. Her father, a plumber and electrician, and her mother, a paraprofessional at Hartford High, divorced before she entered middle school.
Her mother, Ramona O’Brien White, bought a house in Wilder before the global financial crisis of 2008. “I bought high,” O’Brien White told me in a phone interview. “I tried, but I just couldn’t make it.”
She lost the house in foreclosure. She moved into a two-bedroom apartment in Hartford with her two children. Becca’s brother got one bedroom. Becca and her mother set up twin beds in the other.
The Valley News, April 5th, 2022
by Darren Marcy
HARTFORD — Two-term state Rep. Becca White, D-Hartford, has announced her intention to seek one of three Senate seats from Windsor County. White, 27, said the litany of issues Vermont faces coming out of the pandemic calls for someone with her experience and skill set.
“It’s laid bare so many of the challenges we face,” White said.
“We’re at a place where I can no longer wait my turn,” she said. “We have urgent problems.”
VT Digger, April 4th, 2022
The two-term state representative on Monday launched her candidacy for one of Windsor County’s three state Senate seats. Unless any of the delegation’s incumbent senators — Alison Clarkson, Dick McCormack and Alice Nitka, all Democrats — decide to retire, White’s candidacy sets up an unusual competitive primary come August.
Should she win, the 27-year-old White would become the youngest member of the Senate, and that’s a fact she’s stressing in her campaign messaging. Her slogan — “It's time for the next generation of leadership to come from Windsor County” — was born from a conversation she had with her mother.