Last May, Louras’ secret plan came to light in the Boston Globe, which said: “Louras made no apologies for excluding the public from the planning. If the proposal had been floated earlier, the mayor said, the debate would have become ‘about them’ — meaning the Syrians, their culture, and possible links to terrorism — instead of whether the city had the means to accommodate the refugees.”

Yes, and they couldn’t possibly have had a public discussion about whether the migrants had possible links to terrorism. That would have been “Islamophobic.”

Well, now, even in Vermont — Vermont! — this arrogant and authoritarian mayor has received his comeuppance: he has been voted out. Bravo, Rutland voters.

“In Referendum on Refugees, Rutland Mayor Loses Reelection Bid,” by Mark Davis, Seven Days, March 7, 2017 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):