GOT A NEWS TIP? NEWS@SEVENDAYSVT.COM
tasting
This friday, sept. 13
ramifications of this representation may mean for the future.” Mackenzie says South Burlington Good Government has no connection to her. But Dooley, a self-professed progressive who’s married to Vermont Supreme Court Justice John Dooley, has not joined in Engels’ complaint Jennifer & Brandon! regarding Pam PAC. “I’m certainly concerned about the lack of reporting,” Love from Dooley says. Asked in a phone interview last week if she believes the council election was bought, Dooley responded, “The election was influenced 32½ Church St 40 church st by the amount of 861-3035 burlington money spent, but 862 5051 TrinketI wouldn’t say it SWEETLADYJANE.BIZ Vermont.com was bought.” A majority of voters might8v-sweetladyjane091113.indd 1 9/5/13 8v-ricksusave091113.indd 12:22 PM 1 9/6/13 1:57 PM KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS and BURLINGTON LABS present: well have decided to eject Dooley and Engels even if their opponents had spent only a fraction of the combined sum of roughly $18,000 laid out by Shaw, Nowak, Pam PAC and South Paul Engels Burlington Good Government. Dooley and Engels were members of a council that played a role in unpopular decisions involving the handling of a proposed addition to the Cairns Recreation Arena. The council was also said to have botched the city’s relations with the National Gardening Association, which subseA new documentary film on prescription drug addiction and recovery. quently decamped to Williston. Dooley DIRECTED BY BESS 0’BRIEN and Engels had also opposed local basing of the F-35 warplane. Nowak and Shaw recently joined Mackenzie in reversing the city council’s earlier statement of opposition to the bed down. Tickets: $30 and $15 www.flynntix.org 802-863-5966 In addition, the period leading to last In honor of Recovery Day in Burlington March’s election was marked by turmoil For more info www.kingdomcounty.org over the ouster of city manager Sanford Miller. Taken together, all these issues MEDIA SPONSORS: left many voters with the impression of a city council that, in Nowak’s words, UNDERWRITERS: Brattleboro Retreat, Vermont Agency of Human Services, NMC, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burton “can’t get much of anything right.”
3 beers on draft
Congratulations
for growler pour
& over 150 craft beers!
Rick’s U-Save
Beverage & Deli 1302 Williston Road, S. Burlington, 802-862-2907
COURTESY OF MARK NADEL
The Gala Premiere of
SEVENDAYSVT.COM 09.11.13-09.18.13
SEVEN DAYS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 7:00PM FLYNN THEATER, BURLINGTON
LOCAL MATTERS 17
In filing complaints related to an election he lost half a year ago, Engels insists he isn’t motivated by “sour grapes” or a desire for revenge. For her part, Mackenzie says of Engels, “He has every right to file whatever complaint he wants to.” But, she adds, “He also could have given me a phone call.” “Why would I do that?” Engels says in response. And he describes Mackenzie’s claim of a misplaced PAC filing as “just amazing, really incredible.” Pam PAC’s intervention in the council races “wasn’t fair, not even remotely,” Engels says. The $4360 or more that may have been spent by Pam PAC to defeat Engels and Dooley was piled on top of $7494 spent by Shaw in his race against Dooley and the $5043 Nowak spent to unseat Engels. Neither Engels nor Dooley spent as much cash as their opponents: Engels reported $1394 in expenditures; Dooley reported $3909. But Engels has no issue with the amount of money spent by the NowakShaw team. “I don’t think Chris and Pat did anything wrong,” he says. “They raised a lot and they spent a lot and they accounted for it.” In addition to Pam PAC, a group calling itself South Burlington Good Government bought a pair of ads in the Other Paper to attack Dooley and Engels, and it hasn’t filed a finance report with the secretary of state’s office, either. Mackenzie says South Burlington activists James Knapp, Betty Goldberg and Mike Simoneau organized this group. It describes itself as “a fast-growing number of South Burlington residents and community members who have become very frustrated with how our city is being represented and what the
4t-KingdomCounthyPro090413.indd 1
9/2/13 4:00 PM