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1.15.2008

 

Republican outreach

The 49-member Republican caucus in the Vermont House of Representatives unveiled a new Website this morning. You can check it out here.

In the back and forth between the Democratic leaders of both the House and Senate and the Republican Douglas administration, the voice of this minority in the House can get lost -- except when it comes time to hold a veto vote.

To make sure folks outside the Statehouse know what they are thinking and saying, the caucus has set up this Website.

House Republican Leader Steve Adams isn't at the Statehouse right now, having just undergone heart valve surgery. (Reportedly successful according to the Website) Still, he offered this advice at the Website:

"So, if I can’t be in Montpelier myself, at least let me share this thought with my colleagues from both parties, and hope it stays with you in my brief absence. This session, focus on what is really important. All the issues that we know divide us, set them aside for now. Don’t let them be a distraction that keeps us from fixing the things that our constituents need us to fix. This is what the people of Vermont deserve, and we will all be better for it."

Assistant Republican House Leader Patti Komline of Dorset is in charge for now and she outlines the caucus' priorities for the session at the site. Obviously, if folks outside the Statehouse like any of these ideas, they will need to lobby to get them to happen, because if the House Republicans' proposals don't coincide with the priorities of Democratic Speaker Gaye Symington and her leadership team -- and some don't -- they won't happen. Remember the split in the 150-member House is 93 Democrats, 49 Republicans, six Progressives and two independents.

-- Nancy Remsen

Comments:
Nice site. Do Democrats have one?
 
www.progressiveparty.org
 
Hope this GOP site gets hacked!
 
Aren't you creative. Why not go out and try to accomplish something with your life.
 
Why accomplish anything with your life? If you do that then you no longer need to continue to hold out your hand for government assistance. GOP haters such as this don't know the meaning of personal responsibility.
 
Replace Symington - that would be an accomplishment.
 
Anonymous said...

"Replace Symington - that would be an accomplishment."

Your inability to grasp the fact that Symington doesn't have a P in addition to a D after her name and that 93 is not 100 are a well-documented matter of public record.

Evidently, you are now having trouble distinguishing an R from a D as well as a P, little fella.

That makes you one farcockteh meshuggah schmuck, sport.

Keep up the good work.

Always a pleasure.
 
"That makes you one farcockteh meshuggah schmuck, sport."

That's so persuasive.
 
Replacing Symington would only require 76 votes in opposition to her...not a far cry from impossible
 
Anonymous said...

That makes you one farcockteh meshuggah schmuck, sport.

"That's so persuasive."

Thanks, little fella. It has the added quality of being true, too.

It's a shame you'll never know the feeling.
 
The feeling of hearing voices? And believing that everyone's out to get you?
 
150 reps minus 49 GOP reps equal 101 Progdems

It is on page 42 of the third grade math book your mommy bought you Junior Whackman
 
Anonymous said...

"150 reps minus 49 GOP reps equal 101 Progdems"

Still havin' problems distinguishing a D from a P, eh, little fella?

Bummer.

Well, you'll do fine in Mississippi.

Like all of redstate amerika, it's all special ed down there.

You'll probably even win yourself a klan merit badge or two.

Always a pleasure.





It is on page 42 of the third grade math book your mommy bought you Junior Whackman
 
Anonymous said...

"The feeling of hearing voices? And believing that everyone's out to get you?"

Nah, the knowledge that neither one of you could or ever will.

You can start tryin' any time now, little fella.

Always a pleasure.
 
JW you have been very busy posting today. Is this your day off from the ice cream store?
 
Anonymous said...

"JW you have been very busy posting today. Is this your day off from the ice cream store?"

Well, we can't all be here all day and all night like you, little anonymous fella. I never have to look long to see a post with your name on it.

What's more, you're back to the same slop ya were posting when ya didn't have a clue or know what the hell ya were talking about two months ago.

It's nice to know you can count on some things in this rapidly tanking world of yours.

Truth be told, you've got even less of a case now then ya did then.

Ya must take a great deal of pleasure in the knowledge that you're not makin' a difference, little fella.

Christ, the Dow's up more this year than you are, little fella.

If not, you're a glutton for punishment. Given the fact that I'm such a glutton for punishing ignorant, ill-informed, gop-slop spewin', lunatic-fringe loons like yourself, it's no wonder we get on like we do, little fella.

You are the wind beneath my wings.
 
Signed, Theodore Kaczynski.
 
In other words, ya got bupkis, little factually-challenged fraudulent fella.
 
Whoa - take it down a notch - no one really cares that much.
 
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