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Threats made via email toward Vermont Democratic Party Chair Faisal Gill, who is believed to be the nation's first Muslim leader of a state party. The emails, sent by a Burlington resident, included racial and ethnic slurs, and a lewd cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.

Threats made via email toward Vermont Democratic Party Chair Faisal Gill, who is believed to be the nation's first Muslim leader of a state party. The emails, sent by a Burlington resident, included racial and ethnic slurs, and a lewd cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.