In many respects, the contrasts between the two are easy to draw. Barring some kind of cataclysm, either Balint or Gray seems poised to become the first woman elected to Congress in the state's history.Īs the primary looms closer, the race has become a contest of authenticity. But Balint and Gray, the presumed front-runners, have the clearest shots at winning the August 9 primary - and in deep-blue Vermont, the Democratic primary winner will almost certainly go on to victory in the general election. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Louis Meyers, a physician and South Burlington resident who has previously run, unsuccessfully, for the state Senate. But the race to fill Welch's seat, the first Vermont congressional contest without an incumbent since 2006, is a different story.įour candidates are vying for the Democratic nomination, including Sianay Chase Clifford, a 27-year-old from Essex who grew up in Vermont and recently spent a year as a policy fellow for U.S. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who is retiring after 48 years in office. The program was billed as a fête for Welch, whose ascent to the upper chamber of Congress has been all but guaranteed since he announced last fall that he would run to succeed U.S. "Can I get Becca Balint and Molly Gray up here?" Moore asked.
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The floor-to-ceiling windows behind Moore overlooked the darkening waters of Lake Champlain, adding to the sensation that we were all aboard a victory-bound Democratic Party cruise ship. Grace Potter had played a set of bluesy folk-rock glasses of rosé had been refilled sliders had been dutifully consumed. "We have two very important women here tonight," Moore told the business-casually attired crowd at Hula, an airy coworking space in Burlington's South End. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Tabitha Moore, the former president of the Rutland-area NAACP, took the microphone to make a special announcement. He added that Sarah Henderson has another son who lives with his father outside the county.At a fundraiser last month for the Senate campaign of U.S. Hillhouse said Jacob Henderson was not the biological father of the victims and has been cooperating with authorities. "She was very matter of fact, to the point and just didn't show any remorse," Hillhouse said of officials' interviews with Sarah Henderson. ABC News quoted Hillhouse as saying that the gun malfunctioned when Sarah Henderson tried to kill Jacob. She had also intended to kill her husband, "but the entire crime did not go as planned," a news release said. The gruesome case took another dark turn Friday when investigators announced Sarah Henderson had planned for at least two weeks to kill her children, though authorities did not provide further details to support this claim. Hillhouse said the punishment for capital murder in Texas is life in prison or the death penalty. She was arraigned Friday morning with bail set at $2 million and remains in jail under suicide watch. Sarah Henderson has been charged with one count of capital murder, with another capital murder charge pending, officials said. "We hadn't had much to do with her until Wednesday night and then again Thursday," Hillhouse said.ĬBS News reported that Texas Child Protective Services confirmed it had been in contact with the family six years ago, but that other details were confidential. Recordings of Jacob Henderson's EMS and 911 calls were released by the Sheriff's Office on Friday. In his 911 call, Jacob Henderson alerted police to what they would find: the girls, reported to be 7-year-old Kaylee and 5-year-old Kenlie, had been shot in the head. He had fallen asleep and awoken to hear his wife say, "Jake, I shot the kids," Jacob Henderson told the dispatcher. In the background of that distraught 911 call, Sarah Henderson can be heard asking: "Why did I do that, Jake?" She kept trying to pry back the gun Jacob Henderson took away from her. Choking back tears, panting for breath, and at times wailing, Henderson told the 911 dispatcher that his wife had shot her children.Īnd now, Sarah Henderson was clutching onto her neck, as if trying to choke herself.
Henderson's next call came in at 2.24am Thursday. "A male and female told the Deputies they were fine and no one was in danger or jeopardy," read a news release from the Sheriff's Office.
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