{"id":2940,"date":"2019-01-29T07:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T12:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2019-01-29T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T12:09:50","slug":"vermonters-overwhelmingly-oppose-us-border-wall-support-vermont-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/29\/vermonters-overwhelmingly-oppose-us-border-wall-support-vermont-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermonters Overwhelmingly Oppose US Border Wall, Support Vermont Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>POWNAL &#8211; A new survey of Vermont residents indicates very low support for President Trump&#8217;s proposed border wall between the US and Mexico, however very strong support was shown for a border wall around the state of Vermont itself. 91.2% of Vermonters responded that they were either &#8220;opposed&#8221; or &#8220;strongly opposed&#8221; to the border wall proposed by President Trump, while 79.6% were &#8220;highly in favor of,&#8221; &#8220;mostly in favor of,&#8221; or &#8220;probably in favor of&#8221; a border wall between Vermont and its neighboring states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is already <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"a physical border between Vermont and South Canada (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/06\/u-s-completes-border-wall-around-south-canada-south-canada-pays-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">a physical border between Vermont and South Canada<\/a>, and many agree that it works well at keeping the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"former residents of Richford (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/18\/former-town-of-richford-vt-names-itself-south-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">former residents of Richford<\/a> where they belong. Now some are suggesting that the state ought to construct a similar barrier designed to keep out undesirables from Massachusetts, New York, and New Hampshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not really worried about Mexicans, you know?&#8221; said Purity Gwaed, of Pownal, VT. &#8220;I&#8217;m more worried about those Massholes coming up from the south, or those Yankees fans driving over here with their Yankees bumper stickers. There&#8217;s got to be a way to keep them out, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While banning travel between states is not technically legal, proponents of the Vermont wall say that it would not be a legal barrier at all, but more of a physical hurdle only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hey, if you can get over the wall, more power to ya,&#8221; Gwaed said. &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s gonna arrest you or anything. But it oughtta be a challenge. And do we really need all these roads leading in here?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gov. Scott had no specific comment about the state wall, but only reaffirmed his commitment to the state&#8217;s infrastructure, and to vetoing things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>POWNAL &#8211; A new survey of Vermont residents indicates very low support for President Trump&#8217;s proposed border wall between the US and Mexico, however very <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/29\/vermonters-overwhelmingly-oppose-us-border-wall-support-vermont-border-wall\/\" title=\"Vermonters Overwhelmingly Oppose US Border Wall, Support Vermont Border Wall\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[34,8,6],"tags":[85],"coauthors":[91],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-canada","category-southern-vermont","category-vermont-life","tag-pownal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TWFI-2019_01_29.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-Lq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}