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The Revolution Will Not Be Held Because It’s Just Too Hard

Spoiler alert: It ain’t happening.

The brave patriots of the Burlington Republican Committee scheduled a rally in support of Trump’s jackbooted thugs — and then postponed because, well, it might be too cold outside and they want to arrange police protection in case they’re harassed by counter-protesters.

To be fair, it is supposed to be very cold and they could be vastly outnumbered by their opponents. Still, they seem easily discouraged. Maybe they should hold their rally in Bill Oetjen’s living room, which should be (a) comfortably warm, (b) secure from outsiders, and (c) more than large enough to accommodate the entire city committee.

Good thing the Founders were made of sterner stuff, or we might still be paying taxes to the Crown.

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If a Political Committee Does Something Stupid in the Forest, Does It Make a Sound?

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.

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