“Something we run into a lot as Progressives is that people sometimes don’t know what a Progressive is,” explains Robert Millar of Winooski, who took the helm of Vermont’s favorite third party on New Year’s Day.
A 28-year-old University of Vermont graduate who grew up in Essex and Shelburne, Millar has dabbled in Progressive politics for years — volunteering on campaigns and winning election to the Winooski School Board for a two-year term. Most recently, he worked as office manager for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) 2012 reelection campaign.
Millar replaces the party’s longtime executive director, Morgan Daybell, who left after the November election to take a decidedly less political job at the Franklin Northeast Supervisory Union. Daybell oversaw a tactical transition within the party away from running statewide Progressive candidates against Democrats; instead, many Progressive-oriented candidates have recently run with the Democratic label as well.
That’s a strategy Millar says he’s interested in continuing to pursue, assuming the party’s elected leadership agrees.
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