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Vermont Democratic Party

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The Vermont Democratic Party is the affiliate branch of the United States Democratic Party in the state of Vermont. [1]

70 relations: Alternative energy, American Civil War, American middle class, Barack Obama, Becca Balint, Bernie Sanders, Beth Pearce, Blue, Bush tax cuts, Defense of Marriage Act, Democratic Party (United States), Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, Doug Hoffer, Due process, Entrepreneurship, Environmentalism, Equal Rights Amendment, Fifty-state strategy, Global warming, Governor of Vermont, Howard Dean, Independent voter, Isaac Fletcher, Jim Condos, John F. Kennedy, John S. Robinson (governor), John Smith (Vermont), Lieutenant governor, List of cities in Vermont, List of Governors of Vermont, List of lieutenant governors of Vermont, Lucius Benedict Peck, Madeleine Kunin, Mark MacDonald (Vermont politician), Mitzi Johnson, Modern liberalism in the United States, Montpelier, Vermont, Patrick Leahy, Paul Dillingham, Peter Shumlin, Peter Welch, Philip H. Hoff, Progressivism in the United States, Quality of life, Renewable energy, Same-sex marriage, Same-sex marriage in Vermont, Secretary of State of Vermont, Social justice, Social liberalism, ..., T. J. Donovan, Thomas Bartlett Jr., Thomas P. Salmon, Tim Ashe, United States Constitution, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, Universal health care, Vermont, Vermont Attorney General, Vermont Auditor of Accounts, Vermont health care reform, Vermont House of Representatives, Vermont Progressive Party, Vermont Senate, Vermont State Treasurer, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Vermont's at-large congressional district, Waterboarding, William H. Meyer. Expand index (20 more) »

Alternative energy

Alternative energy is any energy source that is an alternative to fossil fuel.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American middle class

The American middle class is a social class in the United States.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Becca Balint

Rebecca A. (Becca) Balint (born c. 1968) is a Vermont educator, writer, and politician.

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Bernie Sanders

Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007.

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Beth Pearce

Elizabeth A. Pearce is a Vermont government official who currently serves as Vermont State Treasurer.

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Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model.

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Bush tax cuts

The phrase Bush tax cuts refers to changes to the United States tax code passed originally during the presidency of George W. Bush and extended during the presidency of Barack Obama, through.

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Defense of Marriage Act

The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (and) was a United States federal law that, prior to being ruled unconstitutional, defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman, and allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010

The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 is a landmark United States federal statute enacted in December 2010 that established a process for ending the Don't ask, don't tell (DADT) policy, thus allowing gays, lesbians, and bisexuals to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces.

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Doug Hoffer

Doug Hoffer (born September 3, 1951) is a policy analyst from Burlington, Vermont who is currently serving as the Vermont State Auditor.

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Due process

Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.

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Equal Rights Amendment

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex; it seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.

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Fifty-state strategy

A fifty-state strategy is a political strategy which aims for progress in all states of the United States of America, rather than conceding certain states as "unwinnable." In a presidential campaign, it is usually implemented as an appeal to a broad base of the American public in an attempt to win, even if marginally, every state, since even a marginal victory is effectively total victory for electoral purposes.

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Global warming

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.

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Governor of Vermont

The Governor of Vermont is the head of the government of the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Howard Dean

Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American physician, author and retired politician who served as the 79th Governor of Vermont from 1991 to 2003 and Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2005 to 2009 and works as a political consultant and commentator.

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Independent voter

An independent voter, often called an unaffiliated voter in the United States, is a voter who does not align themselves with a political party.

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Isaac Fletcher

Isaac Fletcher (November 22, 1784 – October 19, 1842) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Jim Condos

James C. Condos (born January 29, 1951, in Orange, New Jersey) is the current Vermont Secretary of State and former Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Chittenden senate district.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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John S. Robinson (governor)

John Staniford Robinson (November 10, 1804 – April 25, 1860) was an American lawyer and politician.

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John Smith (Vermont)

John Smith (August 12, 1789 – November 26, 1858) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from Vermont.

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Lieutenant governor

A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction.

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List of cities in Vermont

Vermont is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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List of Governors of Vermont

The Governor of Vermont is the U.S. state government's chief executive.

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List of lieutenant governors of Vermont

The Lieutenant Governor of Vermont is elected for a two-year term and chosen separately from the Governor.

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Lucius Benedict Peck

Lucius Benedict Peck (November 17, 1802 – December 28, 1866) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Madeleine Kunin

Madeleine May Kunin (born September 28, 1933) is an American diplomat, author and politician.

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Mark MacDonald (Vermont politician)

Mark A. MacDonald (born December 18, 1942) is a Vermont educator, farmer, and Democratic Party politician who served several terms in both the Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate.

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Mitzi Johnson

Mitzi Johnson (born November 18, 1970) is a Democratic Vermont politician who has served as the Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives since January 2017.

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Modern liberalism in the United States

Modern American liberalism is the dominant version of liberalism in the United States.

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Montpelier, Vermont

Montpelier is the capital city of the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Washington County.

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Patrick Leahy

Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Vermont, a seat he was first elected to in 1974.

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Paul Dillingham

Paul Dillingham, Jr. (August 10, 1799 – July 26, 1891) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Peter Shumlin

Peter Elliott Shumlin (born March 24, 1956) is an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the 81st Governor of Vermont from 2011 to 2017.

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Peter Welch

Peter Francis Welch (born May 2, 1947) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for since 2007.

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Philip H. Hoff

Philip Henderson Hoff (June 29, 1924 – April 26, 2018) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Progressivism in the United States

Progressivism in the United States is a broadly based reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th century and is generally considered to be middle class and reformist in nature.

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Quality of life

Quality of life (QOL) is the general well-being of individuals and societies, outlining negative and positive features of life.

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Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

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Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage) is the marriage of a same-sex couple, entered into in a civil or religious ceremony.

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Same-sex marriage in Vermont

Same-sex marriage has been legal in the U.S. state of Vermont since September 1, 2009.

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Secretary of State of Vermont

The Office of the Secretary of State of Vermont is located at 128 State Street.

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Social justice

Social justice is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society.

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Social liberalism

Social liberalism (also known as modern liberalism or egalitarian liberalism) is a political ideology and a variety of liberalism that endorses a market economy and the expansion of civil and political rights while also believing that the legitimate role of the government includes addressing economic and social issues such as poverty, health care and education.

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T. J. Donovan

Thomas J. Donovan Jr. (born January 15, 1974) is an American attorney and politician.

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Thomas Bartlett Jr.

Thomas Bartlett Jr. (June 18, 1808 – September 12, 1876) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Thomas P. Salmon

Thomas Paul Salmon (born August 19, 1932) is a U.S. Democratic Party politician who served as the 75th Governor of Vermont from 1973 to 1977.

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Tim Ashe

Timothy R. Ashe (born December 10, 1976) is an American politician of the Vermont Progressive Party serving as one of the six current Vermont State Senators from Chittenden since 2009 and President ''pro tempore'' of the Vermont Senate since 2017.

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United States Constitution

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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Universal health care

Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, universal care, or socialized health care) is a health care system that provides health care and financial protection to all citizens of a particular country.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Vermont Attorney General

The Vermont Attorney General is one of five cabinet-level constitutional officers in the U.S. state of Vermont which are elected every two years.

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Vermont Auditor of Accounts

The Vermont State Auditor of Accounts is one of six constitutional officers in Vermont, elected statewide every two years.

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Vermont health care reform

In 2011, the Vermont state government enacted a law functionally establishing the first state-level single-payer health care system in the United States.

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Vermont House of Representatives

The Vermont House of Representatives is the lower house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Vermont Progressive Party

The Vermont Progressive Party is a political party in the United States founded in 1999 and active only in the state of Vermont.

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Vermont Senate

The Vermont Senate is the upper house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Vermont State Treasurer

The State Treasurer's Office is responsible for several administrative and service duties, in accordance with Vermont Statutes.

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Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant

Vermont Yankee was an electricity generating nuclear power plant, located in the town of Vernon, Vermont, in the northeastern United States.

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Vermont's at-large congressional district

Vermont has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a single at-large congressional district since the 1930 census, when the state lost its second seat, obsoleting its 1st and 2nd congressional districts.

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Waterboarding

Waterboarding is a form of water torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning.

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William H. Meyer

William Henry Meyer (December 29, 1914 – December 16, 1983), was a Member of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont.

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Redirects here:

D-VT, Democratic Party (Vermont), Democratic Party of Vermont.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Democratic_Party

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