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"...the point behind a Vermont boycott--turning attention to Leahy's tactics.
I have been careful to argue that trips to Vermont should be planned as soon as hearings and committee votes take place on the original eight nominees held hostage these 55 weeks. This is very different from demanding that nominees be confirmed. That decision is the job of the Senate--the entire Senate..." - Hugh Hewitt
No JUDGES? No SKIS! Let our judges go!

(AT LEAST let them go before the entire Senate, and OUT of Leahy's self-important committe.)

Hugh makes the "big time" (sort of) in this week's WEEKLY STANDARD!

July 1, 2002
Volume 07, Number 41

Articles
On a Big Issue, Bush Goes Wobbly
Why is the president endorsing a provisional Palestinian state?
by Fred Barnes
The Lessons of Lebanon
Iran and Syria sponsor an ominous arms build-up on Israel's northern border.
by Michael Rubin
Cloning and Congress
No ban is better than a phony ban.
by Wesley J. Smith
Boycott Vermont!
. . . until Patrick Leahy allows votes on Bush's judges.
by Hugh Hewitt
Jesse Leaves the Ring
Minnesota's tough-guy governor bows out.
by Jason Lewis

Way to go, Hugh!

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Leahy Dismisses Conservative Boycott Of Vermont - Hugh Hewitt says "Let's FReep these CREEPS!"
WCAX-TV (Burlington, Vermont) | 06/02/2002 | Andy Potter, Channel 3 news
Posted on 6/4/02 7:18 PM Pacific by RonDog

Leahy Dismisses Conservative Boycott Of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont - June 2, 2002
A radio talk show host is launching an attack against Senator Patrick Leahy reminiscent of the battle over civil unions. When Vermont adopted the landmark legislation giving homosexual couples the rights of marriage, an explosion of angry letters and emails flooded in from around the country. Some threatened to boycott Vermont entirely. Now comes another frenzy -- aimed at Leahy for blocking conservative judges from appointment to federal courts.
Leahy wins applause almost everywhere he goes here at home. After all, he's brought back a lot of federal money during his 28 years in Washington. The new City Market in Burlington never would have been built without the grant that Leahy secured. The crowd at the market's grand opening on Saturday was glad that he held up several Bush administration nominees to federal court -- including personal favorites of Attorney General John Ashcroft. Leahy joked, "I'll tell Attorney General Ashcroft I will speed up the process when he speeds up sending better people." the crowd cheered its approval.
But outside Vermont, among conservatives, Leahy has become a national lightning rod. The latest strike against him comes from syndicated radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, who launched an email campaign to boycott Vermont tourism.
"It's targeted at Senator Leahy and it's all wrapped around the judicial nominations," Chris Barbieri of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce acknowledged. But he's not too worried. As a result of Leahy's block against the judicial nominations, the Chamber has received 250 emails threatening to cancel visits to Vermont.
"250 boycott emails is really nothing significant," he told Channel 3. "We get eight to eight-and-a-half million visitors every year. We get about five million in the summer and fall, and 250-300 is really a drop in the bucket. It's not really going to have any impact."
Leahy also dismissed the boycott: "As everybody has said, this happens about every year on one issue or another. And it ends up we just get publicity for Vermont and more people end up coming here."
"A rainy weekend in the summer costs us a lot more tourist business than this will ever cost us," Barbieri added.
Leahy says he'll move ahead with the majority of judge nominations, but don't expect him to budge on account of a boycott that appears to be a bust... more
Hugh asks that we:
1 - E-mail the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, at www.vtchamber.com [online "contact us" page].
2 - E-mail mtownsend@bfp.burlingtonfreepress.com [editor of the Burlington Free Press]

Let them know that we will cancel all travel plans to Vermont, and tell all of our friends to do the same, until Senator Patrick Leahy (RAT, Vermont) releases his "hostages" - and allows an "up or down" vote on ALL of President Bush's judicial nominees before the FULL SENATE!

Congrats to Hewitt. Let's get another campaign going. Leahy sure is cocky.

Oh, hurray for Hugh!! Love the Weekly Standard!! I'm a charter subscriber.

It's about time they give Hugh some space; he sure gives them a lot of plugs.

Thanks Ron.

Bump!

Boycott Vermont...and Freep the press on their silence re. the Senate. What the Senate is and isn't doing is putting our nation at risk. Most Americans have no idea what mischief these Senators are working ...which is the only reason they're still in office and not tarred and feathered and living outside our borders...Leahy, Daschle, Reid, Kennedy, Edwards, Clinton, Benedict Arnold.