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Date Posted: 13:02:27 12/23/02 Mon
Author: Lisa
Subject: Re: REQUIREMENTS FOR BEING A GOOD CONSERVATIVE
In reply to: Lisa 's message, "Re: REQUIREMENTS FOR BEING A GOOD CONSERVATIVE" on 10:57:55 12/17/02 Tue

And you have to criticize Gov. Howard Dean for traveling out of state in his run for President and forget that George Bush did the same thing while he was Governor of Texas!


>You are missing the point.
>
>Vermont law does not allow for citizen initiatives on
>civil unions or any other issue. If you disagree with
>that, change the law.
>
>We do elect our political leaders. However, Douglas
>and Dubie didn't want Vermonters to decide. If they
>had lost the popular vote they would still would have
>served. Doug Racine (and Barbara Snelling) did the
>honorable thing and conceeded the election.
>
>Polls in Vermont have been about evenly split
>throughout the CU debate. Consistently, about half of
>Vermonters oppose them and half support it. I don't
>know how a referendum would turn out but if the 2002
>election results are a gauge, they may indeed survive.
>
>Why do you have such a problem with equal protection
>under the law?
>
>>Yeah you are right conservatives in vermont do believe
>>that people should decide, that was why they called
>>for a referendum to decide the issue of civil Unions.
>>Every poll that was ever taken before this bill was
>>passed showed a vast majority of Vermonters disagreed
>>with the law, but that didn't stop the liberal
>>majority of elected officials from going against the
>>wishes of their constituents and passing it anyway.
>>Billy, you know and so does everyone else that if this
>>law was put up for referendum it would lose and lose
>>big. But keep telling yourself whatever it takes to
>>help you sleep at night. You are such a joke, vote
>>stealing, come on.

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