UPDATE: Vermont Secession Petition Submitted to the White House Is a Bust

For anyone still following this nonsense, the so-called petition to consider a request for secession of Vermont from the Union submitted by a New York resident utterly failed to achieve the 25,000 signatures required for consideration and response by the White House.

Despite the repeated claim by the baas of the Dixie singin' Thomas H. Naylor that his Second Vermont Republic had the love of 60,000 Vermont voters, the petition received barely more signatures than his ridiculous secesher gubernatorial candidate, Dennis Steele, in 2010. But that isn't the worst of it; of the 2,600+ signators of the New Yorker's petition for Vermont separatism, a mere 68 identified themselves as Vermonters. The rest of the team came from red states and, primarily, former slave states.

And the 68 figure corresponds roughly to the number of people that secessionist leader Juliet Buck was able to turnout for her anti-Vermont Air National Guard and anti-F35 thug feast at Sen. Patrick Leahy's Burlington, VT office yesterday. Go figure.

My guess would be that Buck'll get the meeting that she's demanded with Sen. Leahy the day after Vermont secedes from the Union, and that'd be like never.

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