Lawmakers announce run/not run plans, bear paw and gall bladder sale ban proceeds
By Guy Page
The ‘Tap Trees, not Vermonters’ tax protest rally will be held 11-2 PM Thursday, May 9 at the Vermont State House.
“As more and more Vermonters are finding themselves left out of the political process, diverse groups are gathering together to be heard and make change,” a spokesperson for the coalition-based Downstream Vermonters rally said in a press release from Stand Up Vermont.
The rally follows the “Vermont Values Under ATAX’ event at the State House almost two weeks ago, which drew a large, diverse crowd to the capital building’s cafeteria and Cedar Creek Room.
Organizers are hoping that with the momentum and wider communication, the number of Vermonters who are fed up enough to attend will grow.
“Building on the success of their first rally two weeks ago, the coalition grows to include new voices disappointed and dissatisfied with the direction of political leadership forsaking Vermont’s marginalized voices–working Vermonters and our children, those living with the land, our natural communities–all suffering under spiraling, unsustainable taxes and fees and from preferential regulatory schemes championed by a super-majority,” the spokesperson said.
Who: Downstream Vermonters
What: A protest/rally of Vermonters suffering from classist political initiatives
When: 11am – 2pm, Thursday, May 9
Where: Vermont State House Cafeteria
For more information, contact one of the event organizers:
John Rodgers 802.525.6677
Suzanna Jones 802.563.3098
Bruce Post 802.879.0879
Mike Covey 802.461.3786
Alison Despathy 802.424.5310
James Ehlers 802.324.6200
Higley’s Hat Back In The Ring – Change in Montpelier can’t come soon enough for veteran Republican lawmaker Mark Higley of Lowell, who announced this weekend he will seek re-election to his House seat.
Higley now serves ons the Government Operations/Military Affairs Committee, and is one of eight members on the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules (LCAR).
“I have done my best to explain to my colleagues of the majority in Montpelier, how the cumulative effect of our policies, tax increases and fees, are becoming a real hardship for so many Vermonters,” Higley said in an email to press. “I don’t believe much will change, until we elect more fiscally conservative members to the Legislature. We need all the help we can get to turn things around.”
Higley also signaled his support for a young Republican candidate for the Vermont Senate seat now occupied by Sen. Bobby Starr, who has said he won’t seek re-election.
“Speaking of that help, I would like to ask residents in the 20-town Orleans Senate district, to please vote for Sam Douglass. He is a young, energetic, fiscally conservative individual, who will help in that effort to turn things around.”
Another Republican candidate is believed to be considering a run. Rep. Emily Sims of Craftsbury is to date the lone declared Democratic candidate.
Dolan of Waitsfield out – Meanwhile, a Waitsfield Democrat will not seek a fourth term in the Vermont House of Representatives.
Kari Dolan told the Valley Reporter, her local community newspaper, that “legislative work is challenging and often messy, as every issue brings with it a whole array of differing points of view. My approach has always been to find common ground on the issue in front of us and to have a goal of incremental improvement.”
Dolan, who holds a degree in biology from Princeton University and two master’s degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, one in science and one in public policy, sponsored or co-sponsored many bills dealing with environmental protection and toxic substances.
Her decision leaves an incumbent-free vacancy in the two-seat Washington-2 District. Major party candidates must file petitions by May 30 to qualify for the August 13 primary.
Bear paw and gall bladder sale ban added to miscellaneous agriculture bill – A ban on the sale of black bear gall bladders and paws was added to a Senate miscellaneous agriculture bill last week after a tweak suggested by the Vermont Traditions Coalition removed the unintended threat to sale of taxidermy mounts.
“Although the intent was good, the bill as initially presented may well have prevented the sale of
many taxidermy mounts,” Covey said. “We worked with legislators and others to address this unintended consequence and are gratified that lawmakers took our concerns and recommendations so seriously. The Warden Service made it clear that traffic in these parts taken from Vermont bears is more common than originally believed.”
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Please look at the highest law of the land here, especially the last phrase:
Article 1.
[All persons born free; their natural rights; slavery and indentured servitude prohibited]
That all persons are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety; therefore slavery and indentured servitude in any form are prohibited.
And yet, the average income for the biggest employer in Vermont is 72k, and for the individual non governmentally employed is 41k. This means that the VT gov, is indenturing the rest of us to pay for their higher standard of living. This is, a constitutional issue. It also happens to involve the misnomer that our government is a democracy or a democratic republic, or a republic. It is none of those things. It is in fact and actuality a corporation, or an amalgamation of corporations, all listed as such on Dun & Bradstreet. The product of these corporations is control of the people, wielded through military threat and force: if you don’t pay what we say you owe, we steal your not private property and kidnap you to jail. Additionally now, medically, if you don’t subject yourself to experimental medical procedures and interventions, in violation of international law, and seemingly in violation of the first amendment and others, you may not go to school, or work, or go into petition the government. Add to that the vote counts are entirely created by the Dominion Tabulators, we the people are not even to witness their accuracy by a verifying hand count , by “law”.
The government is not theoretically engaging in conspiracy, it is making the complete enslavement of the people a matter of law. The government of course is serving the elite supremacists, who, are declaring a war on GOD, wanting to take that mantle for themselves, with total control and view of every minutia of the people’s everyday lives. They will kill and murder on their path to seeking total godhood. Care? Mercy? Humanity? Not evident no matter how they dress it up with words.
The government may not indenture the people to allow for its higher standard of living, all while NOT solving the very crises it creates and wanting more money because of these crises.
Bernie says its capitalism, it is not, it is corporatism. Capitalism we do not have, we have corporatism, where the profit is shielded from personal liability for any wrong doing, and the government, now as corporations, force the people into a demand economy, not a free trade economy, where we by law are forced to pay into a variety of indentures, biopharma, utilities, insurance.
Private property ? Hah! property tax is rent on land claimed by the state, proof of which comes in two forms, the deeds now say rights of “tenancy” and the state can steal your property, boot you off with military might for lack of payment to their rent.
The most obvious place of departure from service to teh public is the fact that this government here in Vermont has known for decades that organic (or the real version of truly natural) food heals the people and the environment, removes the offensive issues that the climate change problems claim, and yet, look around, do you see a huge expansion of local organic farms and farmers, educators and trades to serve them?
No, instead they claim a giant BLM, and then push to enslave more little black children in the Congo to retrieve the ore needed for the batteries, it is so grotesque.
What are we to do? WE may just need to reorganize, and have our need filled by our own selves. We may need to have a private club, where only vermonters and not government belongs, and within that club decide how we are going to manage our own internal method of exchange, and agree to honor it for one another. Then we can bring forward a new day.
I call it an Agenda for a Living Earth. I believe it’s on my website of my name. VT government has indentured and enslaved the people of Vermont, this is fact that must be hammered home. They have violated the constitution by becoming corporations and serving the elite financial supremacists.
First of all – well stated Emily Peyton. Please run for office. Second – With the exemption of one or two moderate democrats (the ones who voted against setting Vermonters up to get sued and the ones who voted against every single garbage climate bill) every single progressive and all democrats who vote for climate bills need to be VOTED OUT OF OFFICE. That is our only hope!