2018 VT Senate race: on Principles & Values

Lawrence Zupan: Running on principles of life, liberty and private property

Brooke Paige: Nominee for Secretary of State (won 4 other nominations too)

Candidates in Vermont can file to run in the primary contests for multiple offices. They may only choose one office for which to run in the general election, after which the party may nominate a candidate to fill the vacancy on the general election ballot.

Paige was a Democratic candidate for governor of Vermont in the 2016 election. He was also a 2016 candidate for state attorney general. He lost both races in the August 9 primary. Paige previously ran for the same two positions in 2014. He was also a 2012 candidate for the U.S. Senate, running as a Republican in that campaign.

John MacGovern: Raised on an organic communal dairy farm

MacGoverns' parents belonged to the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, according to the magazine article, which is a Catholic sect founded by a Jesuit activist who was ultimately ex-communicated. MacGovern's father died when he was young, the article says, and his mother became a nun within the order. "Which might not have been as traumatic as it would have been in a secular context," the article's author writes, "given that the order's common practice was to dissolve the parental bond early anyway."