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5.02.2007

 

Mixing marijuana and abortion policy

Some members of the Vermont House so wanted to vote to require parental notification before teenagers undergo abortions that they tried to tack it onto the medical marijuana bill.

The connection between the seemingly miles-apart issues was the parental permission provision in the existing medical marijuana law.

The debate never took place. Rep. Ann Pugh, D-South Burlington, asked House Speaker Gaye Symington to rule on whether the parental notification amendment was germane. Symington concluded it wasn't.

Rep. Duncan Kilmartin, R-Newport, who led the 28-member effort to bring up parental notification, asked for a vote to allow debate on the non-germane amendment -- essentially asking the House to overrule Symington. He needed three-quarters of the votes cast to win. He lost 107-39.

The tally doesn't represent much. It's not a measure of opposition to parental notification. Some supporters of parental notification voted with the speaker because there's a tradition about not challenging rulings -- especially those viewed as common sense.

--Nancy Remsen

Comments:
The words "common sense" and "Duncan Kilmartin" don't go together.
 
Boy, that Speaker Symington sure
has got control of her group - not!
 
I guess we need a few retarded right-wing Republicans to cancel out some of the equally retarded left-wing Democrats we have.
 
Where on earth is this state headed? We let the people who want everything for everyboday all the time have it - but who is supposed to pay for all this?
 
You should've seen Kilmartin in action in Isle La Motte last night representing the selectboard member threatening to sue the other two members and town lawyer.

Nothing like a legislator from the Kingdom pitching in to help tear a town apart.

Did he go home to Newport, back to Montpelier, or spend the night in Isle La Motte?

I think him and Hemingway must have been outside sampling the medical marijuana together.

Maybe that's why ole Sam only talked to the people suing the town, and nobody else that wasn't involved in litigation against the town.

Doesn't matter anyways, with all the pictures they took and Hemingway actually staying through the whole meeting the fact that no article appeared in todays paper says the freeps didn't get what they were looking for.

But hey, who needs to read about the people of Isle La Motte finally having enough and standing up to those who are suing the town, and giving the community a bad name.

That's not news..........
 
Is Deb Markowitz really running for Governor?
 
No. I think Markowitz is running to be mayor of Munchkinland.
 
Aww . . . That's not nice. From what I can tell, she seems to have a lot of common sense and I don't think she has the rabidly socialistic, anti-business mentality that has infected Symington, Shumlin and the rest of the state Democratic legislative leadership. She'd probably be a good choice. Except I'd be reluctant to put even an apparently moderate Democrat in charge of the government if there's a chance that the Legislature will stay under the control of Symington and Shumlin. With no threat of a veto, the first act of the new Legislature would abolish all private enterprise.
 
Madam Secretary of State is no moderate democrat. All of the far left radical ideas now being rammed through Montpelier have their start from her. Don't buy the "moderate" label
 
Ok. What's your evidence that she's the origin of all the craziness in Montpelier?
 
Deb Markowitz is a Progressive - she runs as a "Democrat" to get elected. She is married to a Progressive and is very involved with them - like it or not.
 
She's Vermont's "Little Sprout."
 
Deb Markowitz is a Progressive? Compared to D's and R's, that's clearly an asset if true.
 
Wow. The things you learn. I did not know that she was married to a Progressive. I'll cross her off my list of electoral possibilities for higher office -- although I've never had a problem voting for her as Sec. of State -- she's brought some stability to an office that was in flux for a number of years before her tenure.
 
She may be the next Governor.
 
If she can see above the podium during a debate.
 
She will because others will be holding her up.
 
Markowitz for Governor.
 
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