As an ongoing analysis of prison housing continues, ACLU of Vermont Advocacy Director Falko Schilling asked lawmakers to consider smaller, community-based facilities that, in some instances, would have less security measures in place.
To take away from kids their identities as boys and girls, and reduce them to simply sperm and egg producers, has to be one of the most dehumanizing things I have ever heard.
I have been told we are to work things out by crossing over party lines. Not in this Vermont Legislature — not one amendment or Republican bill is brought up or gone through because the ruling parties are negative to the core, or against common sense free speech.
“I think we have to keep in mind that many of these kids are violent and can do extreme damage to physical property — but more importantly staff members and other kids. I encourage you to listen and call it what it really is,” Sen. Dick Sears said.
If you sign H.89 and S.37, Vermont will protect “any person” in any “act or omission” regarding any minor without the direct care of their parents. H.89 and S.37 will shield a gender-affirming system that will leave minors in harm’s way.
The bill, S.103, passed in the Senate late last month and is moving through the House. Its core goal is to get rid of the existing legal requirement that harassment or discrimination must be “severe or pervasive” to be considered unlawful.
The added language further states, “No bylaw shall have the effect of excluding these multiunit or multifamily dwellings from the municipality.”
A Vermont legislative panel on Thursday discussed a component of education funding that has increased demand yet has been undergoing budget cuts in recent years.
Gov. Phil cott needs 11 senators to vote to sustain his veto of S.5. He can count on all seven Republicans and three Democrats: Bobby Starr (D-Orleans), Dick Mazza (D-Grand Isle), and Irene Wrenner (D-Chittenden North). That makes 10. He needs one more.
Governor Phil Scott is spot on in his analysis. His explanation and clarity shed light on the inherent problems with S.5.
The arrogant, “we know best” attitude that has now consumed our Legislature is by far the worse in Vermont’s history, and will sadly remain if Vermont voters continue to vote the way they have.
Republicans call him weak or label him a RINO, but somehow they don’t understand that Governor Scott is the best thing anyone on the right has going for them.