While just about every U.S. House of Representatives member from New England is a foregone-conclusion pro-impeachment vote this week, a first-term congressman from Maine is under extraordinary pressure.
U.S. Representative Jared Golden, a Democrat, lost the 2018 congressional race to the Republican incumbent according to vote-counting procedures used in the vast majority of the country, since the Republican got more votes than he did. But Maine now has ranked-choice voting, and since no candidate got a majority of votes, the second-choice selections of voters who voted for two left-of-center fringe candidates put Golden over the top in subsequent re-figuring.
The police chief in Burlington, Vermont resigned Monday. December 16 after admitting he created an anonymous Twitter account to respond to a critic of his, as VTDigger reports.
Chief Brandon del Pozo admitted to it on Friday, December 13, leading several members of Burlington's city council to call on him to resign.
