Who gets to see themselves on a Vermont ballot?

This commentary is by Pelin Kohn, a student advising coordinator at the Community College of Vermont and second-term Montpelier city councilor. On July 29, I was at a community screening of “Man With a Plan,” John O’Brien’s film about Fred Tuttle. It’s a low-budget mockumentary about a retired Vermont farmer who runs for Congress. In a strange case of life imitating art, Tuttle actually won the 1998 Republican primary for U.S. Senate, though he declined to cam