{"id":810,"date":"2017-03-10T02:57:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T02:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2017-03-10T02:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T02:57:15","slug":"the-dispossessed-majority-strikes-back-mayor-booted-from-office-over-support-for-obamas-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"The Dispossessed Majority Strikes Back: MAYOR BOOTED FROM OFFICE OVER SUPPORT FOR OBAMA&#8217;S REFUGEES"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"postmeta wnd author\">\n<hgroup>\n<h1 class=\"posttitle\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">MAYOR BOOTED FROM OFFICE OVER SUPPORT FOR OBAMA&#8217;S REFUGEES<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"deck\">&#8216;We defeated this, and it should be used as a template for the rest of country&#8217;<\/h2>\n<\/hgroup>\n<p><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2017-03-10T02:49:09+00:00\">Published: 1 day ago. <span class=\"updated-ts\">Updated: 03\/09\/2017 at 11:01 AM<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline author vcard\">\n<p>image: http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2014\/06\/lhohmann_avatar.jpg<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2014\/06\/lhohmann_avatar.jpg\" alt=\"author-image\" \/> <span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/author\/lhohmann\/\">LEO HOHMANN<\/a><\/span> <a id=\"about-the-author-link\"><\/a>About <span class=\"archive-link\">| <a class=\"mail-link\" href=\"mailto:lhohmann@wnd.com\">Email <\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/author\/lhohmann\/?archive=true\">Archive<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"about-the-author\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"story-social-media\">\n<p>image: http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/wp-content\/themes\/worldnet-theme\/_\/images\/\/feed.png<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/author\/lhohmann\/feed\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/wp-content\/themes\/worldnet-theme\/_\/images\/\/feed.png\" alt=\"rss feed\" \/> Subscribe to feed<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"hentry\" class=\"entry-content wnd\">\n<div id=\"pmad-in1\" class=\"konafilter tpl03-tod_opt  pm-device\"><iframe id=\"pmad-in1-frame\" style=\"margin: 0px; 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padding: 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;\" name=\"pmad-in2-frame\" width=\"160\" height=\"365\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"top\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rutland is Vermont\u2019s third-largest city but still very small, with a population of 16,500.<\/p>\n<p>The candidacy of Mayor Christopher Louras went down in flames in Tuesday\u2019s election as he was defeated by the refugee program\u2019s most ardent opponent on the board of aldermen. David Allaire won with 52 percent of the vote to 34 percent for Louras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not just a win, that\u2019s a drubbing,\u201d said Don Chioffi, an activist who supported the upstart candidate Allaire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4206421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2017\/03\/Rutland-mayor-chris-louras.png\" srcset=\"\/files\/2017\/03\/Rutland-mayor-chris-louras.png 300w, \/files\/2017\/03\/Rutland-mayor-chris-louras-292x275.png 292w, \/files\/2017\/03\/Rutland-mayor-chris-louras-67x63.png 67w, \/files\/2017\/03\/Rutland-mayor-chris-louras-91x86.png 91w\" alt=\"Rutland mayor Chris Louras\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Louras came out last April and \u201cannounced,\u201d much to the surprise of his residents, that the city would be taking in up to 100 Syrian refugees in fiscal 2017 along with others from Iraq. The announcement divided the city among those who wanted to welcome the refugees \u2013 no questions asked \u2013 and those who thought the refugee program was being dictated without any local input and with very little information. Protests and counter-protests were organized, attracting national media attention.<\/p>\n<p>Unfazed by the division it caused in Rutland, a State Department contractor opened an office and started placing Syrians into the community.<\/p>\n<p>More than 98 percent of Syrian refugees are Sunni Muslim while about 75 percent of Iraqi refugees are either Sunni or Shiite, and they\u2019re just now starting to show up in a small town that doesn\u2019t have\u00a0a single mosque.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Louras paid a price for his role in inviting the refugees to Rutland.<\/p>\n<p>City Councilor David Allaire won a four-way race for mayor, stopping Louras from gaining a sixth term.<\/p>\n<p>Both Rutland and Rutland County went for Clinton in the November presidential election, with Clinton winning in a landslide in the city but more narrowly in the county with 13,635 votes to Trump\u2019s 12,479.<\/p>\n<p>Local activist Don Chioffi, an ACT for America chapter leader in Rutland, said Allaire got no help from the local media. But supporters bypassed the newspapers and TV stations by using social media, meetings and a\u00a0conservative radio host to get their message out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people we talk to always react positively, but you would never know that from the media coverage we get,\u201d Chioffi told WND.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn their sacrilegious and diabolical effort to squelch the truth, they won\u2019t put it out there, so it\u2019s hard to emphasize how important this victory is because the leftist media just doesn\u2019t give you a fair shake, and we went into it expecting that. We knew we wouldn\u2019t get a fair shake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Louras had negotiated an unpopular refugee deal behind closed doors with the United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. USCRI is one of nine exclusive contractors that get paid by the U.S. State Department for every refugee they place into U.S. cities and towns.<\/p>\n<p>USCRI\u2019s budget is funded 97 percent by federal taxpayer dollars, according to its 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/refugees.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/US-COMMITTEE-FOR-REFUGEES-IMMIGRANT_TAX-RETURN_990-FINAL-PUBLIC-INSPECTION_2014.pdf\">IRS form 990<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch local TV coverage of Rutland\u2019s surprise election blow-back\u00a0against refugee resettlement<\/em>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more at http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2017\/03\/u-s-mayor-booted-from-office-over-support-for-obamas-refugees\/#SXsvi3xzPq2tG1jq.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAYOR BOOTED FROM OFFICE OVER SUPPORT FOR OBAMA&#8217;S REFUGEES &#8216;We defeated this, and it should be used as a template for the rest of country&#8217; Published: 1 day ago. 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