UVM pubbies counter liberal absentee ballots

Dwinell Political Report ^ | 09/27/02 | JimVT

[JimVT]

"Guillaume McDowell, UVM, Burlington: I was struck by an idea this month:

Since college students who register to vote outside their home states risk losing their financial aid, I think that, before the Progressives put up their voter registration tables every fall at UVM, concerned citizens should have a table set up with all the appropriate forms to request an absentee ballot for the students' respective home states.

We should make a point of the fact that registering to vote in Vermont will endanger your financial aid if you are an out-of-state student. That way, we couldn't be accused of disenfranchising college students, and the Progressive/ Democrat base of support at UVM would be eroded.

I am tired of hearing my Burlington neighbors complain about out-of-state students being able to vote in elections. Here is a way they can act on their irritation!" __________________________________________________________________________

[JimVT]

There is hope for the political future of Vermont.

A group of young Republicans has organized on campus and is espousing the conservative viewpoint in Vermont's educational bastion of the left.

UVM has an open door policy for every far left kook who can utter a sentence without dribbling excessively on his "Bush is a M-F" tee shirt. (No lie....one of these klutzes wearing the aforementioned message showed up at the Dick Cheney visit to Vermont earlier this week)

The previous UVM president (who got fired, thankfully)was the MC for the University-sponsored Ellen DeGeneres "Coming Out" party.

Conservative Vermonters will remember (painfully) when Bernie the Red was Mayor he organized his minions to invade the UVM campus and get every wet-behind-the -ears student to fill an absentee ballot....and...it is alleged that the Sanderistas helped them check off all the Progressive candidates on the ballot.

Most of these kids left us with the radicals and a bunch of "feel good" bond issues and then after graduation went back to their posh homes in CT, MA and wherever.

And, BTW, the current UVM student population is 7400 and sixty-two percent are out-of staters!!!!!

This crap is still going on so I read Mr. Guillaume's letter to the editor of the Dwinell Report this morning with some joy.

I think his idea, if followed through, will put a real dent in the liberal vote in Chittenden County which is, by far, the state's biggest voting bloc.

And, I'm thinking his idea might well be adopted by other "college community" conservatives who are faced with the same problem.

Those interested can read the DR Report at the above URL and the UVM pubbies have a site at VTPubs

[Broker]

This freeper cast his first vote in 1972 for R.M. Nixon while studying Geology and Army ROTC while at UVM as an out-a-stater. The campus had just abolished Cake Walk and Billings Center was taken over by speeders preaching Zero Population Growth (ZPG). Did they breed?

Vermont is bigger than Burlington. New England's culture elites have crawled into every Vermont hill and valley to clip coupons. From Dorset to Grafton, ST. Johnsbury to Enos Fall, Vermont is now a hide out for utopian hermits.

This UVM graduate from the Blue Tooth and College Street left Vermont to those dreamers who still pass the pipe.

Vermont Green Mountain Boy.

[JimVT]

Vermont is now a hide out for utopian hermits.

Unfortunately, Broker, too many of the Utopia seekers are deciding to try to make their own by running for every nickel and dime authority in the state.

But we are gaining ground.

The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, the state's largest of its kind, recently elected a real estate agent as its chairman and turned down the nomination of person who was aligned with a "no-growth" (or as she said: "slow growth") agency.

That's one more small step for mankind.