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Vermont General Assembly passes Civil Unions Bill The Vermont House gave final passage of the Civil Unions Bills and sent it onto Governor Dean, who signed it behind closed doors. Here is how our local state representatives voted:
Question: Concur with Senate including Amendments?
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Governor Dean Signs H.847 A moment infamy at Vermont's State House today as Gov. Howard Dean signed H.847 into law behind closed doors and without a signing ceremony at 1:30 PM. On April 25, 2000. Questioned hard by the press of the unusual signing, the governor indicated it was to begin the process of healing by minimizing the appearance of "triumphalism".
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Advocates for Traditional Marriage vow to Take It To The People in November Vermonters for Traditional Marriage, the political action committee of Take It To The People, is vowing to continue in their effort to preserve traditional marriage through the elections in November. This comes in response to today's vote in the Vermont House to accept the so-called "civil unions" bill as passed by the Senate last week.
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Vermont Defense of Marriage PAC's advise The Vermont Defense of Marriage PAC is advising people in Chittenden County to vote in the Republican primary this year. Their political strategy for Chittenden County is to get two Chittenden County Republican and 4 Chittenden County Democrat Senators that voted for Civic Union out of the senate and replace them with republican candidates that are opposed to the civic union law.
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Vermont's Civil Unions Issue Courtesy of the Burlington Free Press and Take It to the People (TIP), here are the how our local General Assembly representative candidates feel about the Civil Unions Law as it stands now. For those that want to vote based on this issue ---
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Our Primary Results for Year 2000 Turnout was heavy.
It's primary day in Vermont, which is a day that sets the political stage for the election in November. And, there is a crowded field of contestants this year, both for statewide offices and for legislative seats. Opposition to civil unions has drawn dozens of candidates into the primary; many of them vowing to Take Back Vermont. The grassroots movement has no central organization, no single leader; but it has energized candidates and voters all over Vermont.
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Drama Escalates as Primary Results Spell Danger For VT Civil Unions Law While the mainstream media has been quick to point out that "several" legislators who voted for the civil unions legislation in Vermont last spring lost re-election during Tuesday's primaries, the facts indicate that the anti-civil union side "lost" just as many on the House side. The Senate results were a different story: The "yes" votes lost six from their tally while the "no" votes lost none.
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local-issues-and-opinions/civil-unions According to Newchannel 5, final numbers out show some interesting trends. Today's release of the final returns confirms more voters cast ballots last week than in any fall primary in at least 30 years. 30% of registered voters cast ballots, which is way up from 1998 and 3 times the turnout in 1996. There were big races in both parties, yet an astonishing two thirds of those votes were cast in the republican primary. There was much publicity over the vote early option, where voters can vote by absentee ballot up to 30 days before the election. 9000 people in the state of Vermont voted by absentee ballot, which is higher than ever before. -- end --
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Vermont’s Dirty Secrets Revealed "Who do we love?" shouted the leader of the demonstrators winding their way toward Vermont's state capital's dome. "Everybody!" rang the chorus. Professions of universal love abounded at this demonstration on behalf of Vermont's new civil union" law. That will be good news for the state's Republicans, who can pull their personal ads, stop waiting by their phones for a date, and ready themselves for the warm bath of affection Vermont's liberals will soon be sending their way. Up to this point, however, stereotypes to the contrary, it's Vermont's liberals who've been awash in hatred.
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Politics takes new lows Recent newsletters and e-mails from a conservative Political Action Committee (PACs) have been circulating that state, "because of the expected heavy voter turnout, Republicans should vote on Tuesday and Democrats on Wednesday." Liberal PACs have been putting out just the opposite notice: "Democrats vote Tuesday and Republicans vote on Wednesday." Both notices are lies. We are all supposed to vote on Tuesday.
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Burlington Area Election Results 2000 Here are the election Results for all Representatives that the Burlington Vermont area voted on, as of November 8th, 2000 at 7:24 PM. My source is the Burlington Free Press. Most of the candidate photos are from WPTZ Channel 5 News.
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Vermont's Civil Unions' Bill In Plain English
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Reciprocal Partnerships Earlier in the day the committee received solid testimony from a woman who favors the RP benefits for herself and her close female friend of 30 years -- a platonic relationship. Since she is the full-time caregiver her mother who suffers from Alzheimer's, she had to quit her job and has no healthcare benefits. The RP bill would allow her and her friend, who own the house together, to receive healthcare insurance from her friend's employer. Presently the employer only offers such benefits to married couples and homosexual couples.
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Civil Union Lawsuit Dismissed A ruling from the Vermont Supreme Court throwing out a lawsuit against the state's civil unions law by no means settles the issue. ... The ruling that really mattered was the historic Baker versus State, issued by the Vermont Supreme Court two years ago. It declared that gay and lesbian couples must not be denied the same legal rights as married couples. The civil unions law passed by the legislature five months later granted those rights, but the question remains whether gays are legally entitled to marriage itself. Attorney Susan Murray represented the gay couples who originally sued -- not for civil unions, but for the right to get married. "Our position has always been that civil unions falls short of full equality," Murray says.... Since the passage of civil unions the issue that dominated the public agenda has subsided, although it won't go away. But neither advocates nor opponents have filed any new lawsuits, at least not in Vermont.
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Civil Union Partners File Taxes Together The coffee's brewing while Joe Haller and Eric Berta get ready for work. The Burlington couple has been together almost 14 years, but their relationship has only been legally recognized in Vermont since they entered into a civil union in the year 2000. Now they're taking the next step in their civil union and filing their taxes jointly. It's the first year they have the option to do so. ... The Vermont tax forms reflect the new option, with lines for spouse or civil union partner now clearly marked. "It's an interesting situation because the U.S. government obviously does not recognize civil unions as marriage," said Rick Wolfish, a CPA in Burlington. That means civil union couples have to file their federal taxes separately and then must create a dummy federal return to base their state taxes on. ... In the future they plan on living up to those duties by filing their taxes together each year in the only state that allows them to do so.
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Data shed light on civil unions The state's first-in-the-nation law went into effect July 1, 2000, and statisticians have been counting ever since. Among the findings: -- From July through December, 2000, 1,704 civil unions were performed. -- Out-of-state residents accounted for 78 percent of all civil unions in 2000, with the largest number of individuals from New York, followed by Massachusetts and California. -- More women (69 percent) than men (31 percent) were involved in civil union partnerships. -- The most common age range for both men and women who joined in civil unions was 35 to 39. Two men between the ages of 18 and 20 were partners in civil unions, and five women between the ages of 18 and 20 were partners in civil unions.
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Vermont's civil unions law is being used more by female couples than by males, statistics show.
From July 1, 2000, the day that licenses were granted to same-sex couples, through Jan. 4, 2002, 3,471 licenses for civil unions were issued. Of those, 1,180 were given to male couples and 2,291 were to female couples, said Bill Apao, director of public health statistics at the Vermont Department of Health.
That means about two-thirds of the unions -- which confer many of the rights and benefits of marriage to same-sex couples -- were between women.
Esther Rothblum, a psychology professor at the University of Vermont and editor of the national Journal of Lesbian Studies, is
conducting a survey of all couples who received civil unions in the first year of the law.
One reason more women might opt for a legal certification of their union, she said, is that more lesbian couples have children.
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