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Bob Kiss February 1, 2009

HB: Thank you for taking the time to talk to me this morning, Mr. Mayor. BK: Glad to be here Haik. HB: It's now February, that's when local elections get into full swing. How is your campaign going? BK: Good. I think it's underway and when I look at the calender, you're right, February is packed. So there's going to be a lot of forums and house parties and opportunity for people to talk about the issues. HB: I see on facebook that you were in DC for the inauguration? BK: That's true. HB:What was that experience like? BK: It was great. So partly the US conference of mayors always has a winter meeting and it's always in Washington, and what they did this year was obviously make it dovetail with the inauguration, so that worked out really well. The one, sort of, thing I've gone to every year that I've been mayor has been the US conference of mayors meeting in Washington. So I get a chance to meet
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Bram Kranichfeld October 23, 2011

Interview with Bram Kranichfeld The following is a faithfully transcribed conversation between me and Democratic mayoral candidate Bram Kranichfeld recorded at The Bagel Cafe and Deli in the Ethan Allen Shopping Center on North Avenue on October 23, 2011 between 2 and 3pm. Kranichfeld is currently city councilor from Ward 2 and is running for the Democratic mayoral nomination for mayor of Burlington. HB: So this is your first term? or... uh... you were re-elected? BK: I was re-elected. Technically I'm in my second term, although I'm not yet through my second year because I initially ran in a special election to fill in the vacancy that Emma Mulvaney-Stanak left. And so that was only a year left on that term. That ended in this March in 2011 and I had to run again this March and I ran unopposed in March. HB: And you won a squeaker in the special election, right? BK: That's right. The special election was a hard race. We work
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