You know, if the Burlington Republican Committee wasn’t a bunch of hateful fuckers, I might feel a little bit sorry for them. They went to all the trouble of writing a painfully detailed resolution denying the very existence of transgender folk and complaining of bathroom incursions by people posing as trans, “authoritarian censorship” of their views on gender, “an alarming increase in violent attacks” on people such as themselves… and oh, so many other things. There’s a grand total of 17 “Whereases” and seven “Be It Resolveds.” It has the distractingly busy look of a Dr. Bronner’s Soap label.
The resolution was first reported on June 23 by Guy “Scoop” Page at the Vermont Daily Chronicle.
The Committee burped out this thing on… April 25. And then sent it to Mayor Miro Weinberger and the Burlington City Council.
Yikes. All that hard work, all that hatred spewed onto a single crowded page, and nobody noticed for almost two months.
I don’t know which is the more accurate measure of the city committee’s plunge into the abyss of irrelevance: That they’re devoting their time to ranting about the evils of “transgenderism,” or that their resolution got no attention at all. They get far more attention, all of the bad variety, for the anti-trans stickering campaign they’re so proud of.
Either way, it’s exactly what they deserve. City chair Christopher-Aaron Felker has, deliberately I think, turned the city GOP into nothing more than a trolling operation. I realize that being a Republican in Burlington is a hopeless task, but the city committee could at least put some effort into making moderate conservatism a relevant force in city politics.
But no. Instead, we get Felker’s hateful antics. Which are antithetical to the kind of Republican Party that Gov. Phil Scott claims to represent.
Good thing for the governor that pretty much no one notices whatever the Burlington Republican Committee gets up to. Otherwise he might have to explain why he chooses to wear the same label and march under the same banner as the Felkers of this world.
The Vermont Political Observer. 
Governor “What would you suppose [I] should do?” does not have ethics. He has a firm eye on his 1990s era economics plan, and he’ll happily work with anyone who will help him pursue that. Think of an empty milk carton waiting in the trash to be refilled with fresh milk.