(Brattleboro) New Tone Set in E-Mails on Bush Warrant - AP

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Source: Associated Press

New Tone Set in E-Mails on Bush Warrant

Wednesday February 6, 2008 3:01 PM

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) - The tone has changed in
e-mails this Vermont town has been receiving on its
proposal to issue warrants for the arrests of President
Bush and Vice President Cheney. Now, more people are
supporting the resolution.

Brattleboro's town offices have been flooded with 7,000
e-mails since its selectboard voted Jan. 25 to include
the item on its Town Meeting Day agenda.

Some of the earliest messages received were so full of
vitriol that town officials said they were worried for
their safety. Some writers called Brattleboro a bastion
of “liberal appeaser wimps” and “wackjobs” for
even considering the warrants.

Town Manager Barbara Sondag said any threatening
emails are passed along to the police, although she
said Tuesday that the nasty messages have subsided,
replaced by ones supportive of the resolution.

Sondag's office is reviewing every e-mail received
and the issue is taking up 60 percent of her workers'
time.

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