Vermonters vote in town meetings to bring their national guardsmen home.

[Kire]

Antiwar resolution dominates Vermont's town-meeting agenda
Jonathan Finer, Washington Post
March 2, 2005

NORWICH, VERMONT. -- The resolution calling for the return of U.S. troops from Iraq was the 31st item on the town meeting agenda in the white-walled gymnasium they use for square dances and thrift sales. After a day of balloting, it passed.

In Strafford, Vt., a few miles west along a dirt road, it passed with hardly a whisper of dissent, minutes after residents authorized $12,920 to buy a used backhoe loader.

And in Bethel, a mill town that is considered conservative by this blue state's standard, residents narrowly endorsed a version of the measure, against the urging of a Vietnam veteran and a soldier who returned last week from the war.

On Town Meeting Day, a New England tradition that dates to the 17th century, voters in 52 Vermont towns, more than one-fifth of the state's 246 municipalities, participated in a formal referendum vote on U.S. involvement in Iraq.

Although not all towns had reported their results, organizers of the initiative counted 38 towns where some version of the resolution passed, three where it failed, three where residents decided not to vote on it, and one where the vote was a tie.

More: http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5268109.html

[Enquiringkitty]

1. Do you think the Government will really care what they have voted for?

Vermonters will face an over ride by government needs.

[Kire]

3. it's a non-binding resolution

so, there you go

[paineinthearse]

2. Can anyone provide copies of the warrant articles and send to Flatland?

I want to do the same in Massachusetts.

Please PM me.