Killington to secede from VT to NH

[M@]

It's a publicity stunt to be sure, but I'm sure you'll be hearing about it in the lodges this weekend:

http://www.rutlandherald.com/News/Story/77067.html
The Select Board is considering asking for voter approval to cut ties with the Green Mountain State and essentially have the town become a landlocked piece of New Hampshire. Here's a news flash for kMart: Maybe NH doesn't WANT you!

M@

[kmrnskier]

very interesting. Good or bad??

[targheehucker]

Its mainly a vote of no confidence because of "taxation without representation" Just cause they vote doesnt mean it will happen, its just a vote to petition the legislature. Towns in NJ have been doing it for the past couple of election years. Some richer towns vote to petition the leg. to succeed from a county and go to a richer county because all their tax dollars go to poorer towns...It never actually happens though.

[BladeGirl]

M@:
Here's a news flash for kMart: Maybe NH doesn't WANT you!
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Maybe NY will take them. The mountain is filled with NYers anyway.

-BG

[el-bagr]

This will go the way of the Zilwaukee beard law (http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/breaking_news/7606862.htm). Yesterday the elders of Zilwaukee downgraded the shaving license from mandatory to voluntary.

[RR]

I see their point...it is a major rip. I have a suggestion for them:

Open a local campus of UVM and include a Recreation Industries Degree and Graduate Program. The funds will come cascading in faster than they can handle.

[Bannick]

hmmmm sounds like the situation in Quebec.
I would like to declare my house a city state and kinda like the vatican.

[el-bagr]

cnn article (http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/01/09/vermont.secession.ap/index.html)

CNN (through the AP) quotes Vermont Secretary of State Deborah Markowitz as saying Killington has little chance of secession "absent an armed insurrection type of thing."

A woman in the city of Biddeford, Maine, recently attempted to use an armed milita (http://www.pressherald.com/news/york/031113militia.shtml) to defend her house against property taxes. (Surprisingly, it didn't work.)

[elwood]

Never gonna happen...But if it does, I'm moving back to Killington!