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Outrageous-Outside61 t1_j8jcnn6 wrote

Idk I bitch a lot about transplants ruining the Vermont I love. In my mind it’s not a problem on the individual level as it is we are watching a pretty rapid change of the industries and values that used to be what being from Vermont was all about, and it’s easy to blame the voter base change, as well as the amount of not native Vermonters running for office. So I get your sentiment but idk, I think this post is a little bit hyperbole.

  1. Labor strikes. Not going to happen.

2 refusal of services. Go for it if you want to. My transplant customers are great, and I see bringing them onto my farm and engaging in conversations a lot more effective at getting them to understand the culture of Vermont than it would be to refuse them as clients.

  1. State electoral college. Eh. No. That’s a little absurd. We get to vote on town and county levels for all sorts of important stuff. Go to town meeting day, get involved, run for something!

  2. This is the only one I’ll agree with you on. I would love, love, to see a residency requirement for a certain period of time. I think 10 years is extreme, but I’m not a big fan of the amount of people that move here and immediately run for office.

The end of your post is a little hard to completely understand. You’re not drumming up a revolution, and nobodies trying to have this removed, they’ll just downvote it to hell.

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bonanzapineapple t1_j8l7fhp wrote

What county level votes exist in VT?

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Outrageous-Outside61 t1_j8nhx5d wrote

Our state senate is essentially divided up by county. Not exactly, but close enough that I would call that county level.

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bonanzapineapple t1_j8oj93u wrote

It's not very close at all, but sure I guess

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Outrageous-Outside61 t1_j8pluwy wrote

Idk I think of it as pretty accurate. Look up the latest maps vs our county maps. If anything they include more rural voters in otherwise denser areas (including parts of Orange County in Washington county for example) yeah, it’s not exact but I do think our state senate is pretty well drawn up to represent our population.

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Northwoods01 OP t1_j8jh1zq wrote

  1. Read again. "Local official from out of town." I'm not at all advocating for refusing services to all transplants.
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Corey307 t1_j8kqmz4 wrote

You’re saying that anyone who services the people you don’t like should be ostracized and punished for doing so. Jesus Christ kid that’s insane.

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