Posted on 03/09/2017 8:14:32 AM PST by davikkm
“Five-term incumbent Mayor Chris Louras of Rutland, Vermont was defeated this Town Meeting Day. He lost to Alderman Dave Allaire by a margin of 52 percent to 34 percent. Allaire swept all four wards,” WCAX reported Tuesday night. “Louras had beaten Allaire in two previous mayoral elections,” Seven Days Vermont reported.
It was not even close on Tuesday, as Louras (pictured) was crushed in a humiliating defeat that was as much a rejection of his personal character as it was of his pro-refugee policies.
Louras made headlines last year when it was reported that, beginning in 2015, he secretively attempted to resettle 100 Syrian refugees in the small Vermont city he has served as mayor since 2007.
“Mayor Christopher Louras has unveiled a plan, developed in near-secrecy, to resettle 100 Syrian refugees who fled the onslaught of the Islamic State and are exiled in sprawling Jordanian camps,” the Boston Globe reported in May.
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It benefits Democrat politicians only. More welfare recipients = more loyal Dem voters.
Vermont is interesting.
It is billed as a Liberal Socialist Paradise yet this Moron get stomped in this Election and when the Legislature tried to pass Gun Control Laws (Vermont is a Constitutional Carry State) they were assailed by the Electorate for daring to do such a thing.
I rack it up to Vermont being the Edwin Winter State, Whiter than a Klan meeting in a raging Snowstorm.
I don’t think this was a Dem Vs GOP thing. This was liberal on liberal.
Well if it wasn’t emotions then it would have been Russian hacking. Liberals never loose because their real ideology is unacceptable to just about everyone.
Well if it wasn’t emotions then it would have been Russian hacking. Liberals never loose because their real ideology is unacceptable to just about everyone.
While we in the West murder our babies faster than Hitler's holocaust, islam plans to slowly overwhelm it with rape and forbidding their children of rape to be aborted on religious grounds.
When I see the words “ national conversation,” my totalitarian radar becomes very active.
Nice! I didn’t read the article to find out much he would have banked for each refugee.
WINNING!
If he was attempting this in secret, one wonders if it was also illegal.
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