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    All Politics Is Local (The Daily Rattle)

    In a reminder that there are actually rational people living in The People’s Republic of Vermont, the voters of Rutland have just turned out their incumbent mayor, Chris Louras, after he attempted to deluge their town with Muslim refugees from Syria and Iraq. While ignoring the public’s deep discontent with our government’s refugee resettlement programs-when not imputing racism and bigotry to Americans who express reservations about these schemes-is the norm, even the alternative weekly was forced to concede the enormous political consequences of this decision...
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    Mayor of Vermont Town Ousted After Secret Efforts to Resettle Refugees

    March 8, 2017 126 Comments

    (Emma Lamberton, Watchdog.org) Rutland has spoken.
    Christopher Louras/PHOTO: Vermont Public Radio

    Voters on Tuesday unseated 10-year incumbent Mayor Christopher Louras, replacing him with David Allaire after a year of turmoil stemming from the mayor’s secret plan to make the city a permanent refugee resettlement community.
    Unofficial results show Allaire won 51 percent of the vote. Louras placed second with 34 percent, and Mike Coppinger came in third, with 13 percent.
    Rutland gained national attention last year after Louras was caught negotiating secretly with state and federal agencies to settle 100 Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Discussions began in November 2015, but Louras announced the news in late April.
    Allaire campaigned on a promise to bring “trust, respect and transparency” back to the mayor’s office. To many, the overwhelming victory is proof that voters are sick of having a mayor who makes deals behind closed doors.
    Allaire has been one of Louras’ most vocal adversaries over the past year. The 19-year member of the Board of Aldermen led efforts to bring transparency into the refugee resettlement process, penning several letters to government representatives and requesting that the city attorney evaluate Louras’ actions against the city charter.
    Louras was instructed to keep the process secret by Amila Merdzanovic, executive director of the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. In emails obtained through a public records request, she is seen urging Louras to avoid transparent public forums on refugees: “If we open it up to anybody and everybody, all sorts of people will come out of the woodwork. Anti-immigrant, anti-anything.”
    Louras never apologized for keeping voters and city leaders in the dark. Even after he made the April announcement and locals responded by gathering enough signatures to qualify the issue for public vote, Louras cared more about the national spotlight than his constituents.
    “It doesn’t matter what the [ballot] language was,” he said in a radio debate last month. “The way it would have been portrayed locally [and] to the state and to the nation is, here is a community who wants to vote on whether they would let people in.”
    In July, the Board of Aldermen narrowly defeated the push from city residents to hold a non-binding special election.
    For much of the year, locals expressed frustration that their opinion mattered little to Louras or resettlement agencies. VRRP continued to push ahead with plans and ignored the board’s information requests for months.
    When the U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants finally responded to the board in December, Gail Johnson, a Rutland resident and former Naval officer, found the letter to be full of factual errors.
    Two refugee families arrived in January, but executive orders by President Donald Trump halting Syrian immigration have thrown the program into question. Trump’s executive order released this week puts only a four-month halt on travel from Syria, meaning more families could be coming to Rutland this year.
    Throughout the campaign, Louras insinuated a vote against him would make Rutland look bad in the eyes of the nation.
    “We are on a state and national stage. This community will be defined by the election on Tuesday. The result … will define who we are,” he said at the final mayoral debate.
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    Wow!! Throw the bums out!! I LOVE IT!!

    GO RUTLAND, VERMONT!!! Good for you.
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    Needs to happen in ALL our Cities...unseat these Mayor's and get them out.
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    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    Many cities need new Mayors. Time to stand up and speak out for common sense and intelligence that puts America First and Americans Before That.
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