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VTGOP Responds to Burlington City Council’s Anemic Half Measures to Address Crime

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Last night the Burlington City Council passed two resolutions related to crime and policing. VTGOP Chairman Paul Dame had the following response

“This is the fundamental problem with the Progressive approach, they are unable and unwilling to admit their mistakes even when people are dying because of their foolishness. How hard is it to say that it was the wrong move to defund the police back in 2020? For four years Burlington residents have been in greater danger and the city was rated the sixth most “unsafe” city in American last December. Admitting the mistake and taking a new approach would instill confidence among voters, but instead Progressives continue to play games with residents’ safety.

In a bold move of irony the Progressive Democrat coalition on the city council also passed a resolution against gun violence. But passing resolutions instead of putting police on the streets to actually stop gun crimes has become emblematic for every kind of progressive policy. It’s all talk and no results. Progressive Democrats have lost the ability to govern in a serious way. If the Burlington City Council wants to pass resolutions instead of equipping the city with the police force that used to protect its citizens, they should all go back to high school and play model U.N. The lives, neighborhoods and businesses in Burlington have been profoundly and permanently affected by the games these Progressive Democrats continue to play.”

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9 replies »

  1. The irony of Paul Dame saying “all talk at no results” is not lost on me and hopefully none of you either.

  2. No way!! Burly hasn’t hit rock bottom yet!! I applaud the council and their voters on their commitment to stupidity. Only by standing on the wreckage of a once-beautiful city will the abject failure of Progressive policies become obvious.

  3. Progressives need a good lesson in capitalism. Unfortunately it will take the demise of the city for them to learn that when the businesses, patrons of those businesses and homeowners who have skin in the game and contribute to the tax base have left, the money to run their socialist utopia dries up.

  7. Burlington has become a place we do not go willingly unless need compels, as for medical treatment.

  8. My wife and I for many years visited Burlington on mini vacations. No longer do we go there. Too many negative developments in a former beautiful place.

  9. The Burlington City Council is a gaggle of fools, the Queen City has become a cesspool !!

    Business and home owners need to take a stand, and reject the nonsense as your tax dollars are being wasted as your safety & security is gone.

    Thank You Burlington Police Department, for doing what you do under the thumb of the new DEI Mayor, and her feckless liberal council…….