Majority of 32 Wisconsin Towns Vote for Iraq Pullout

[kpete]

April 5th, 2006 3:06 am
Majority of 32 Wisconsin Towns Vote for Iraq Pullout
By Kari Kydersen / Washington Post

HOREWOOD, Wis., April 4 -- Voters in the majority of 32 Wisconsin towns with local referendums on the Iraq war voted Tuesday to bring the troops home.

A call to withdraw from Iraq by the end of the year passed overwhelmingly in the liberal Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood, while in conservative Watertown, where the City Council had opposed having the referendum, it was voted down by 75 percent.

Although the referendums are nonbinding, organizers with the Green Party and other antiwar groups said they hope they send a message to Washington.

"This sort of reminds me of Vietnam," said Nicole Bartelme, 22, a student at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee who voted in Shorewood. "I have some friends in Iraq, and I think we should bring them home. I don't know realistically if this will have any effect, but hopefully someone's listening."

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http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=6428

[DUHandle]

1. That's Shorewood

Shorewood.

[rodeodance]

2. more here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2208681&mesg_id=2209256

[babylonsister]

3. Good for them! I wish they'd do this in every state and let

the opinions fall where they may.