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In Referendum on Rapefugees, Rutland VT Mayor Loses Reelection Bid
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2017 Mar 8, 12:16pm 2,526 views 10 comments
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PockyClipsNow
2017 Mar 8, 12:25pm
All these pro rapefugee politicians should be easy to 'Willie Horton' because the crimes are real and can easily be shown on ads.
Strategist
2017 Mar 8, 12:34pm
Rutland Mayor Chris Louras, who endured months of withering criticism for his plan to bring Syrian rapefugees to the city, lost his reelection bid on Tuesday.
Moron.
Patrick
2017 Mar 8, 4:09pm
Muslims belong in Muslim countries.
It is a deadly mistake to assume that Islam is like other religions. It is not. It is a political movement which seeks to dominate the world and force all of humanity submit to its barbaric laws.
It is a Trojan Horse which exploits freedom of religion laws and useful idiots to import an ultra-violent political ideology into host countries.
It does not extend to others the tolerance that it demands for itself. When Sharia is imposed, leaving Christianity for Islam is fine, but the penalty for leaving Islam is death.
Strategist
2017 Mar 8, 4:34pm
It is a Trojan Horse which exploits freedom of religion laws
We need to take a temporary step back from our freedoms, in order to ensure it's long term survival.
No Muslim mosques
No importing their preachers.
Ban this sick ideology from being preached.
Strategist
2017 Mar 8, 4:35pm
Muslims belong in Muslim countries.
Why they want to come to lands they hate does not cease to astonish me.
curious2
2017 Mar 8, 4:49pm
We need to take a temporary step back from our freedoms....
No, "kill the disbelievers" and "strike terror into the enemies of Allah" are not part of the "freedoms" the Constitution protects. The First Amendment does NOT give Muslims a right to do what the Koran commands. We must apply laws of general application without exempting religion. Immigration law has banned totalitarians and others who advocate the violent overthrow of the government for a century. We should not favor people saying their religion commands them to kill us over people saying they're going to kill us for some other reason.
Muslims belong in Muslim countries.
Why they want to come to lands they hate does not cease to astonish me.
Different people have different reasons. For some, jihad is revenge for the wars the Bush&Clinton&Obama administrations waged in their home countries. Others are spreading Islam, conquering and/or colonizing. Others just want $, and to teach their kids a doctrine that says to kill us when they can.
Patrick
2017 Mar 8, 4:57pm
Quite a few also want to escape the violence that Islam causes in their home countries. I know a woman who fled Algeria to the US for exactly this reason, and I would be entirely sympathetic, but she herself is a devout Muslim, and is therefore carrying the same virus that she is fleeing, bringing more of it here.
FortWayne
2017 Mar 8, 5:17pm
First year they acclimate, second year they go jihad. Why are we bringing ourselves problems.
Strategist
2017 Mar 8, 6:36pm
First year they acclimate, second year they go jihad. Why are we bringing ourselves problems.
We're Americans. We never learn.
lostand confused
2017 Mar 8, 6:47pm
I mean they scream death to America and our robed imams say we can't discriminate-wtf is wrong with our judiciary..
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2017/03/07/in-referendum-on-refugees-rutland-mayor-loses-reelection-bid
Rutland Mayor Chris Louras, who endured months of withering criticism for his plan to bring Syrian rapefugees to the city, lost his reelection bid on Tuesday.
In unofficial voting results, David Allaire, a city alderman and leading critic of the resettlement, trounced Louras, a 10-year mayoral incumbent, by a 776-vote margin, according to results cited by the Rutland Herald and WCAX-TV.
"I'm simply wishing him luck and I'm moving on," Louras told Seven Days Tuesday night. He declined further comment, saying he would "not hazard a guess" as to what the election results say about Rutland's support for rapefugees.
Allaire did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
While Louras campaigned on a series of issues, and touted a reduction in many categories of crime, along with an improved downtown business district, the rapefugee debate has dominated political life in Rutland for the past year.
Louras had beaten Allaire in two previous mayoral elections.
A Rutland native, Louras reached out to rapefugee resettlement officials in late 2015 and hatched a proposal to bring 100 rapefugees from Syria and Iraq to the city, which has been losing population for decades. The mayor pitched the plan, without consulting the Board of Aldermen, as a humanitarian imperative and economic development initiative.
After months of conflict, Louras in September appeared to have scored a legacy-defining victory when the U.S. State Department announced that Rutland had been approved as a resettlement site and would begin accepting rapefugees. But President Donald Trump's executive orders cracking down on immigration from Syria and other Muslim countries scuttled the plan. Only two Syrian families made it to Rutland.
Allaire always insisted he is not anti-rapefugee, but he led the charge to investigate whether Louras broke any laws in his handling of the proposal.
"We've had a difficult time getting any information from the mayor's office or the rapefugee resettlement folks. It seems to be all cloak and dagger, behind the scenes," Allaire, a sales manager for Interstate Batteries, told Seven Days last month.
To varying degrees, all three of Louras' challengers opposed his rapefugee plans.
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