Return of the Guard
Bob Kinzel's coverage Group of lawmakers calling on Douglas to end deployment of Guard troops in Iraq on VPR.
Terri Hallenbeck's coverage Lawmakers call for governor to pull back Guard from Iraq in the Burlington Free Press.
The AP's coverage Lawmakers Call For Withdrawal Of Vt. Guard From Iraq.
Chris Miller ran on his energy ideas, which were prescient of $100 bbl crude, and Elizabeth Trice was the only Green I've met who, like Chris, connected the dots between energy cost, housing construction, transit, and overt and covert poverty and near poverty. As a courtesy to me he also ran on the idea that the Governor of Maine should, and could, challenge the claim of the current Federal Executive to use the Maine Guard to engage in a war of aggression, or simply to garrison the largest US operated concentration camp in Iraq -- the Abu Ghraib prison.
I've got calls to make tomorrow. To Burlington. There may be stuff I can learn.
Three years from now, in the next mid-term, we may still be trying to get done what we could have gotten done in '06, in the last mid-term. Looking for a candidate, or incumbent, governor, with a profound interest in the Constitution, in particular, Art. 1, Sec. 8, cl. 15 and 16, and not knocked breathless by the National Defense Act of 1916, or any such subsequent, and interested in how the current USSC read historic, and contemporanious, wartime Congressional "Amendments" to the Constitution.
