No, the bill as passed by the Senate does not explicitly allow incumbent politicians to toss challengers into jail. But it does treat criminal threats against them — and almost all other government workers — as twice as bad in terms of sentencing.
Now is the time to stand up in Vermont, as some legislators are acting much more like Kim Jong-un than elected representatives. King among them is Sen. Dick McCormack, aka “King Dick.”
The Vermont Senate Education Committee on Thursday advanced a bill that would restrict the types of mascots and names to be used for Vermont school sports teams, even if the community voted for the mascot.
“While I applaud 16- and 17-year-old Vermonters who take an interest in the issues affecting their communities, their state and their country, I do not support lowering the voting age in Brattleboro.”
Democrats who were unwilling to give so much money back to Vermonters completely removed the tax relief for nurses and veterans, drastically cut the caps for relief on social security, and put everything into child tax credits in bill H.510.
H.448, an act relating to approval of amendments to the charter of the City of Burlington, passed in the State House of Representatives on February 22, 2022, by a vote of 96-47.
The Climate Plan and the Global Warming Solutions Act will have zero impact on the list of things Rep. Sibilia (and others who think as she does) puts forward as reasons why we “need to move.”
These efforts to expose young women to predatory pornographers and pimps is a stellar example of how extraordinarily dangerous and ill-considered are all of these abuses of Vermonters.
Any law that elevates one group of people over another causes division. The fact that these senators have elevated themselves above the people that they are supposed to serve is telling.
Going into town meeting break there is still much up in the air in the legislative session. The Senate Natural Resources Committee moved an imperfect Act 250 bill that would include the road rule provision that will likely draw a veto threat from the governor.
S.265, an act related to expanding criminal threatening to include threats to third persons, passed the state Senate on February 17, 2022, by a vote of 28-2.
Children and adults in schools and childcare facilities would not be able to use religion to avoid vaccination requirements under a new bill being considered in the State House.