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Kit Norton was the general assignment reporter at VTDigger.

Featured Statements

Phil Scott
stated on September 29, 2020 in a debate:

“That 5% (wealth tax) starts at $159,000 per family.”

By Kit Norton • October 4, 2020
Jane O’Meara Sanders
stated on January 26, 2020 in a tweet:

"@BernieSanders receives strong support from the conservative & most rural part of Vermont."

By Kit Norton • February 21, 2020
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 17, 2019 in a video posted on his presidential campaign’s social media accounts.:

"I am very proud that I am the only candidate in the Democratic primary to have voted against all of Trump's defense budgets."

By Kit Norton • December 20, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 28, 2019 in the Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Florida.:

"No, that’s a mischaracterization of my thinking."

By Kit Norton • July 3, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 24, 2019 in Press conference in Washington D.C.:

"Forty years ago, a federal Pell Grant paid for nearly 80% of tuition, fees, room and board at a four-year college."

By Lola Duffort • June 26, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 10, 2019 in speech at a rally in Concord, New Hampshire:

I received "more votes from young people — black, white, Latino, Asian American and Native American — than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton combined."

By Kit Norton • March 16, 2019
Thomas Anderson
stated on December 13, 2018 in in a meeting:

"If the experiences in Colorado and Washington are the experiences we have here, roadway deaths are going to go up, impaired driving is likely to go up."

By Xander Landen • January 3, 2019

Bernie Sanders’ complicated record on guns

By Jon Greenberg • February 10, 2020
Bernie Sanders has entered millionaire class, tax returns show

By Xander Landen • April 16, 2019