ANDREW KLEIN
Vermont State Senate · 2026
Andrew Klein

A Growth Agenda for Vermont.

Common Sense · Real Results · Practical Not Partisan

I'm Andrew Klein — an entrepreneur, a lieutenant on the Middlebury Fire Department, a husband, and a dad. I'm running for the State Senate with one north star: growth — and keeping Vermont unmistakably ours.

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Meet Andrew

Someone who shows up when something needs fixing.

Andrew Klein lives in New Haven with his wife, Ashleigh, and their two children, Lockwood and Fielding. He serves as a Lieutenant on the Middlebury Fire Department and Technical Rescue Team, and is a former member of Middlebury's Planning & Zoning Commission.

Andrew is a graduate of Middlebury College and earned a joint degree in law and business from New York University School of Law and the Stern School of Business, where he has served as a trustee of the law school since 2016. Professionally, he brings decades of experience structuring real estate investments and capital-markets transactions — and building companies.

He's running for State Senate for a simple reason: Vermont's population isn't just barely holding steady — its demographics are shifting in an alarming direction. Costs keep climbing, our communities are aging, and young people can't afford to build a future here. That's fixable — with common sense and a focus on real results, not more of the same.

Andrew Klein, candidate for Vermont State Senate
The Vermont Growth Agenda

Vermont cannot tax its way to prosperity.

Every major challenge facing the state — unaffordable housing, underfunded and underperforming schools, an overburdened healthcare system, crushing property taxes, and a shrinking tax base — shares a single root cause: Vermont is not growing.

01

Grow the base

There is one credible path forward: grow Vermont's economic base. We must add residents, businesses, and economic activity to expand the revenue base. Without growth, every other policy debate is just a negotiation over how to share a shrinking pie. With growth, Vermont can preserve what makes it special — rural character, environmental quality, strong communities — while building the fiscal capacity to solve problems on its own terms.

02

Barriers are policy choices

The barriers to growth are not inevitable. They are policy choices — regulatory systems built in a different era, tax structures that drive away the residents and businesses Vermont needs, and a political culture that too often treats skepticism of change as a form of wisdom.

03

A numbers issue, not left or right

This is not a left-or-right issue. It is a numbers issue. Vermont needs more residents, more businesses, more housing, more workers, and more economic activity. Every other policy debate — on schools, healthcare, climate, taxes — flows from that one.

#1
Vermont had the largest percentage population decline of any state in the nation from 2024 to 2025.
~1,800
Net residents lost in a single year (2024–2025) as an aging population and rising costs reshape the state.
13,500
New workers Vermont needs each year this decade just to close the projected labor gap.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau population estimates, Jan. 2026 (census.gov); Vermont Joint Fiscal Office population presentation, Apr. 2026 (legislature.vermont.gov); Vermont Futures Project Economic Action Plan (vtfuturesproject.org).
Where I Stand

Four priorities, one north star: growth.

Vermont can't tax its way to prosperity. Every major challenge we face shares one root cause — Vermont isn't growing. Here's how we change that.

01

Grow Vermont

Reverse our population decline by removing the self-imposed barriers that keep people and employers from choosing Vermont — without sacrificing what makes it special.

02

Build More Housing

Fix a permitting system designed to slow growth so young families, workers, and seniors can actually find a home they can afford in the communities they love.

03

Lower the Cost of Living

Bring relief from crushing property taxes and rising costs by competing for people and investment — not extracting more from the Vermonters who are still here.

04

Strong Schools & Communities

Invest in our schools and services through a growing economy and a broader tax base — so quality doesn't come at the price of affordability.

"Vermont doesn't need to become a different state. It needs to remove the barriers that keep our kids from staying."
— Andrew Klein
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