“I represent a ward that definitely is divided on this question. There is a very strong camp of individuals who really are opposed to … a military presence at all, and then there’s another group of people who really want to have a military presence at the airport.”
“When the results of this election are tallied, a letter will go to the secretary of the Air Force, and the secretary of the Air Force will accept it and place it on file. The F-35s are coming.”
For over 200 years, Town Meeting Day has been an important political event as Vermonters elect local officers, vote on municipal and school budgets, and decide a host of other potential local issues, like bond votes or school district consolidations.
The point at issue here is that the BCA contended that these second-home owners were eligible to vote because they had an “intent” to establish a primary domicile in the district at some point in the future, owned property, and that was enough to give them status to vote. The BCA believed this despite the law.
A ruling by a Vermont Superior Court judge has led to the removal of 13 percent of a small Northeast Kingdom town’s electorate from the voter checklist, a win for plaintiffs who argued that part-time residents are not allowed to vote in Vermont elections.
Florida voters will decide next fall whether about 1.5 million felons will regain the right to vote in time for the 2020 presidential election.
Americans’ support for the recently signed Republican tax reform bill is soaring, growing nine percent in favorability since Christmas.
We should not transfer authority for drawing political boundaries to unaccountable federal judges who, unlike legislators, can’t be voted out if we don’t like what they did.
Marc Elias, the Perkins Coie lawyer who retained Fusion GPS to compile the notorious Steele dossier, may also have helped Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign assume operational control over the Democratic National Committee (DNC) well in advance of the 2016 primaries.
For the sake of transparency, we need to determine the extent to which apparently populist movements may be receiving financial support from sources adamantly opposed to our democratic tradition.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a Washington, D.C. audience that one reason she failed to effectively communicate with voters in key states because her campaign was so focused on policy.
State Rep. Bob Frenier defeated an incumbent challenger by resurrecting a nostalgic ad campaign from the 1950s. Now he wants GOP candidates across Vermont to use similar ads to win their races in the next election cycle.