What do you call a political party that demands women put an emergency-use pharmaceutical in their body and threatens them should they refuse? A Democrat! And Vermont, which is full of them, may have a huge problem. There is growing evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines can directly and adversely affect a woman’s “reproductive freedom.”
Pensions benefits and costs will rise, even though assets are down $251 million. Given the election results, Vermont’s state bureaucracy is now in the full veto-proof grip of “smoothing-talker” progressives, who can take full credit and responsibility for “fixing” the state pensions.
Dozens of the recommendations of the Vermont Climate Council, ardently backed by the Climate Action Network, will whistle through House and Senate. An early one will be the clean heat standard, to drive up the price of natural gas, heating oil, propane and kerosene. It failed by one vote last May. The Democrats can’t wait to push that through.
VTGOP leaders must recognize the largest voting block in Vermont is not Republicans or Democrats or Progressives. It is those who consider themselves independents. If VTGOP leaders move to rigid right-wing idealogues for comfort, we lose that block.
Vermont should judge drug users, drug dealers and police by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. Until then, the drug trade will flourish and more people will die horrible deaths, because the drug gangs are all here.
Republicans are faced with a community that doesn’t trust us. Everything they have heard about us is negative. Most of what they hear has been false. But here we are. The only way I know to change people’s impressions is to roll up your sleeves and engage.
Speaking for myself, and not necessarily for the party as a whole, I want to take this opportunity to repeat what I have been saying during my entire term as chairman; I believe that Donald Trump is part of the past, and I want to focus on the future.
It’s been a difficult week for Republicans. Expectations were high for many across the country, and they didn’t materialize. So what happened? Well, I will admit that I have a lot more questions than answers.
Republicans have a different, less steep hill to climb — keep voter rolls as clean as possible. Identify in advance where ballots will be mailed to addresses where nobody lives and shut those ballots down.
This muddying of the money supply waters has been underway for decades, as ever more reckless federal spending has necessitated ever more obfuscatory opaqueness in financial reporting.
With the 2022 election out of the way, it’s a good time to take a serious look at proposals for improving election laws. Here are three of my longtime favorites.
When Todd Wilkins was a student at AMHS, Werner was his coach, yet little did either of them know that Wilkins, locally known as Sergeant Wilkins of the Vermont State Police, would continue the Werner legacy for nearly two decades.