Joe Benning by a margin of 54% to 43% and becoming only the second person in Vermont history to be elected to serve non-consecutive terms as lieutenant governor. Agriculture Beginning in 1999, Zuckerman and his wife, Rachel Nevitt, built a successful organic farm in Burlington's Intervale, a network of a dozen farms located in and serving the city. Zuckerman served on the American Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers & Ranchers Committee. He is also a member of the Vermont Farm Bureau and Northeast Organic Farming Association chapter in Vermont. In 2009, Zuckerman and Nevitt moved their farm to in Hinesburg where they grow of vegetables, CBD and raise 1000 chickens. Their produce is almost exclusively sold within Chittenden County. They operate a summer Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) with 275 members, a winter CSA with 125 members, and sell year round at the local Burlington farmers market. Political positions Labor Zuckerman has been a advocate of labor protections such as raising the minimum wage, paid family leave, and increasing protections for workers. Opposition to Bush administration On April 25, 2006, Zuckerman introduced a resolution for the Vermont State Legislature to ask the United States Congress to impeach President George W. Bush. The motion failed 87–60 in a roll call vote on April 25, 2007. Property tax reform Zuckerman supported a bill to lower property tax rates for households earning less than $200,000 in the 2015–16 session. He also helped pass legislation to model this reform in time for the 2017 session. Equal pay Zuckerman was a sponsor of H.440 in 2001, a bill which would require equal pay for equal work. GMO labeling In 2014, Zuckerman was the lead Senate author of Vermont's first-in-the-nation GMO Labeling Law. Vaccines Zuckerman is critical of the philosophy of mandatory vaccinations, a view which led to scrutiny during the coronavirus pandemic. He has said that he is skeptical about the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's position on vaccines due to its purported connections to the pharmaceutical industry, but believes the science of vaccination is sound. He said that he believed that most people should vaccinate their children, but believes in exemptions for medical or religious reasons. He said that some of his constituents had said that vaccines gave their children allergic reactions. He has said that his own daughter is vaccinated. Electoral history Notes References External links Government website Campaign website |- |- |-