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Pro-Refugee Mayor of Rutland, VT Humiliated in Stunning Re-Election Bid Defeat
breitbart ^ | MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2015; chrislouras; mayor; prorefugee; refugees; syrians
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To: sheana
my biggest thing about refugees is.....how in the heck does it help us to bring in thousands and thousands of people not from this country to suck on our welfare system.

It benefits Democrat politicians only. More welfare recipients = more loyal Dem voters.

21 posted on 03/09/2017 9:15:03 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: davikkm

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.


22 posted on 03/09/2017 9:21:08 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: davikkm

I don’t think this was a Dem Vs GOP thing. This was liberal on liberal.


23 posted on 03/09/2017 9:23:11 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: pabianice

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.


24 posted on 03/09/2017 9:25:40 AM PST by dirtymac
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To: pabianice

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.


25 posted on 03/09/2017 9:25:54 AM PST by dirtymac
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To: Alberta's Child
Phew!  Bernie's got a red complexion, so he's safe in Vermont!  I was beginning to worry he might move to Georgia.


26 posted on 03/09/2017 9:40:15 AM PST by poconopundit
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To: central_va
"Weaponized uterus"

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.

27 posted on 03/09/2017 9:47:02 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Alberta's Child
Speaking of refugees (and illegal aliens), I hear they're all moving to Calgary! How do you like them apples, Alberta?


28 posted on 03/09/2017 9:53:16 AM PST by poconopundit
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To: pabianice

When I see the words “ national conversation,” my totalitarian radar becomes very active.


29 posted on 03/09/2017 9:59:39 AM PST by Chaguito
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To: davikkm

Nice! I didn’t read the article to find out much he would have banked for each refugee.


30 posted on 03/09/2017 10:06:58 AM PST by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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To: davikkm
We the people, fund these buyer and sellers of foreign ‘refugees’... This is why the lib-tares in cities and churches are so hot to trot to get themselves some of Obama and lying Ryan's illegals and imported ‘refugees’...
31 posted on 03/09/2017 10:15:31 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: davikkm

WINNING!


32 posted on 03/09/2017 10:53:37 AM PST by V K Lee (If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?)
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To: Gamecock

If he was attempting this in secret, one wonders if it was also illegal.


33 posted on 03/09/2017 3:34:52 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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