Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought up his opponent's shadyfinancial dealings in Hawaii, Vermont andMassachusetts. And he has disclosed that Rappaporthas taken PAC money from the gun lobby (Kerry isone of three senators who refuse to accept PACdonations...
...office, Kerrey supported amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers. These positions have not won much favor among generally conservative Nebraskans. Nor did his role at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing, where Kerrey so aggressively upbraided Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter (who is from his home state) that the chairman, Vermont's Patrick Leahy, whispered in Kerrey's ear, "We usually leave our grenades in the anteroom...
More broadly based efforts are crucial. The Public Health/NAMI study ranks Vermont tops in the nation in caring for the mentally ill because of the strong quality of outpatient support services. Vermont helps its distressed residents apply for federal housing benefits and provides them with bridge money to pay the rent. Caseworkers literally move into the homes of people going through a psychotic episode...
Important to the Vermont approach is the belief that patients themselves must be involved in deciding about treatment. It is a far cry from the old ways. "I was locked away, and I was forcibly drugged," remembers William Montague, 36, who has been diagnosed as paranoid and schizophrenic. "I started getting my life together through living and working in the community and making decisions on my own, good and bad." Today Montague has his life together enough to work in a program that helps the homeless in Burlington...
...White House and congressional leaders. Most lawmakers who feel remotely threatened -- as well as every House member attempting to graduate to the Senate -- came out against it. Braver souls who supported the unpopular combination of tax hikes and service cuts are now being savaged for their stand. In Vermont, Republican Peter Smith, a freshman Congressman, is running no better than even against a well-known independent, Bernard Sanders. A former Socialist mayor of Burlington, Sanders has railed for years against establishments of all kinds. This fall, his populist appeal seems in sync with the times...