Skiers should send their non-Vermont ski lift tickets to the VT resorts.LOL! What a GREAT idea!
(And send an electronic copy to the Chamber of Commerce dweebs, too!)
Ski NEW HAMPSHIRE!
Posted on 06/04/2002 7:18:53 PM PDT by RonDog
Leahy Dismisses Conservative Boycott Of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont - June 2, 2002
A radio talk show host is launching an attack against Senator Patrick Leahy reminiscent of the battle over civil unions. When Vermont adopted the landmark legislation giving homosexual couples the rights of marriage, an explosion of angry letters and emails flooded in from around the country. Some threatened to boycott Vermont entirely. Now comes another frenzy -- aimed at Leahy for blocking conservative judges from appointment to federal courts.
Leahy wins applause almost everywhere he goes here at home. After all, he's brought back a lot of federal money during his 28 years in Washington. The new City Market in Burlington never would have been built without the grant that Leahy secured. The crowd at the market's grand opening on Saturday was glad that he held up several Bush administration nominees to federal court -- including personal favorites of Attorney General John Ashcroft. Leahy joked, "I'll tell Attorney General Ashcroft I will speed up the process when he speeds up sending better people." the crowd cheered its approval.
But outside Vermont, among conservatives, Leahy has become a national lightning rod. The latest strike against him comes from syndicated radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, who launched an email campaign to boycott Vermont tourism.
"It's targeted at Senator Leahy and it's all wrapped around the judicial nominations," Chris Barbieri of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce acknowledged. But he's not too worried. As a result of Leahy's block against the judicial nominations, the Chamber has received 250 emails threatening to cancel visits to Vermont.
"250 boycott emails is really nothing significant," he told Channel 3. "We get eight to eight-and-a-half million visitors every year. We get about five million in the summer and fall, and 250-300 is really a drop in the bucket. It's not really going to have any impact."
Leahy also dismissed the boycott: "As everybody has said, this happens about every year on one issue or another. And it ends up we just get publicity for Vermont and more people end up coming here."
"A rainy weekend in the summer costs us a lot more tourist business than this will ever cost us," Barbieri added.
Leahy says he'll move ahead with the majority of judge nominations, but don't expect him to budge on account of a boycott that appears to be a bust.
Andy Potter, Channel 3 news.
Skiers should send their non-Vermont ski lift tickets to the VT resorts.
That is my email to the paper and C of C.
FReep the Freaks!
Skiers should send their non-Vermont ski lift tickets to the VT resorts.LOL! What a GREAT idea!
(And send an electronic copy to the Chamber of Commerce dweebs, too!)
Ski NEW HAMPSHIRE!
Except they tell their friends and they tell their friends....
I told them that my husband had been planning to return to Burlington for his 30th year reunion at UVM, but was cancelling his plans because of Leahy's obstruction of Bush's judicial nominees.EXCELLENT!!!
We need more messages like THIS one!!!Way to go, Eva!!!
... or ski West Virginia! Info at skiwv.com.LOL!
Go, (non-Green) Mountaineers!A.B.V. = "ANYWHERE but Vermont!"
{ aimed at Leahy for blocking conservative judges from appointment to federal courts.} This line is false!! Not just Conservative ANY!! And how about letting some of them come to a vote.You got THAT right!
See also, from:
Just Say No to Vermont: Hugh Hewitt says: "Boycott Leahy until Senate votes on judges!"
World Net Daily | May 29, 2002 | Hugh Hewitt
Posted on 5/28/02 11:19 PM Pacific by JuanAntonio
"It is time to cancel that trip to Vermont. Be sure to tell the Vermont Chamber of Commerce why you aren't coming and drop a note to the Burlington Free Press to let the state's leading paper know as well. The Vermont tourism industry can thank Pat Leahy, the father of the mother of all Senate boycotts. Vermonters may learn that what goes around, comes around.
Democrats celebrated the anniversary of Jim Jefford's big bounce last week with a small crowd and some television cameras. Jeffords walked down the steps of the Capitol, was greeted by Tom Daschle, and promptly went off-message.
Jeffords began by greeting his "good friend" Pat Leahy, and asked for a hand for the excitable chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. A couple of obligatory claps later – Leahy's not a popular guy even in his own caucus – Jeffords got to the heart of the matter: "Pat, I sleep better at night knowing that you are picking the judges."
I played and re-played that tape for my radio audience last week and will do so again this week and for many weeks to come. It is up there with the tape of Paul Wellstone promising to serve only two terms. Wellstone told a lie, but Jeffords told a truth that Dems have been trying to hide.
Pat Leahy is picking federal judges. By himself. He has this unconstitutional power because as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he has sole power over when to schedule hearings for nominees, and he isn't scheduling them for scores of judges – including eight of President Bush's original 11 nominees, whose names were sent to the Senate 57 weeks ago.
It is rare for accountability to be so clear for legislators and for a particular state. Vermont's Jim Jeffords switched parties, which put Vermont's Pat Leahy in the chairmanship, and Vermont's Pat Leahy is blocking nominees for the two Courts of Appeal which have direct impacts on my life – the Ninth and D.C. Circuits. Leahy's having an impact on your life as well, no matter where you live, because the D.C. Circuit deals with cases from across the country. Leahy is especially bad news for Latinos, as he is playing the race card by blocking Miguel Estrada from the most visible judicial appointment in the history of Latino appointees to the federal courts.
I emphasize again: This is Leahy's doing alone. The chairman has sole control over the scheduling of hearings. The decision to schedule votes after nominees' hearings is also his alone. Once a vote is scheduled, Leahy's power diminishes dramatically. Last week's vote to forward another nominee to the full Senate included yes votes from Sens. Biden and Edwards, even though Leahy had urged a no vote. These two broke with the radical obstructionism of Leahy because they wish to become president, and presidential candidates cannot be part of Leahy's attempt to ideologically cleanse the federal judiciary of all but Leahy-approved nominees.
This is Vermont's blockade, initiated by one Vermonter and executed by another. Though I am no enthusiast for blockades that injure innocent parties, here the culpability is too clear to avoid. Vermont is entitled to its own brand of goof-ball politics. That's the glory of federalism. But the vast, vast majority of Americans support the president and support a diverse and competent judiciary, especially on issues of law and order. They are dismayed by judicial legislators and activist crusaders of the sort that Leahy admires. And there is zero support for a single senator "picking judges." I'd love Gallup to poll that question.
So, I propose that like-minded Americans veto a Vermont vacation until the eight original nominees are given a hearing and a vote by the Judiciary Committee. It is unreasonable to insist they be confirmed – it is not Vermont's doing if a nominee is shot down. But it is Vermont's obstructionism that keeps these eight nominees hostage to Pat Leahy's fevers.
Some callers to my program suggested broader boycotts, but that would diffuse the pressure. Bed and breakfast liberals and ski lodge conservationists may try and pick up the slack, but the tourism industry is widely wired and vocal. Its profitability is also often thin, and tiny ripples can send shock waves. So in addition to the two suggestions above, wander the web in search of a few hotels, bed-and-breakfasts, ski resorts and let fly with a few e-mails explaining that Pat Leahy has begun to figure in your travel plans.
Fairness for eight nominees is not an outrageous demand. Leahy can vote against all eight in fact. Majorities might reject one or all of them.
But unless and until these eight get their hearings and their vote,
just say no to a vacation in Vermont." - Hugh Hewitt
Ben and Jerrys is my one true vice, and now I refuse to have it in my home! It will be hard, but I am not going to buy anything from that state! Emailed everyone I could find to email and told them so.Courage!
After we take back the Senate from these RATS in the fall, we will be able to end the blockade of JUDGES, so we can also end the blockade on VERMONT VACATIONS.
The home of Jim Jeffords and Patrick Leahy, two of the most dishonorable creatures ever to wear the title of United States Senator.
My first cousin got hooked on Heroin while growing up in Burlington, it is a major problem among youths in Vermonts capital city.
Apparently the ex-hippies on the police force are too stoned to do anything about dope dealing.
What a hell on earth.
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