Jim Douglas
80th Governor of Vermont
In office January 9, 2003 – January 6, 2011
Lieutenant	Brian Dubie
Preceded by	Howard Dean
Succeeded by	Peter Shumlin
Vermont State Treasurer
In office 1995–2003
Governor	Howard Dean
Preceded by	Paul Ruse
Succeeded by	Jeb Spaulding
Secretary of State of Vermont
In office 1981–1993
Governor	Richard Snelling Madeleine Kunin Richard Snelling Howard Dean
Preceded by	James Guest
Succeeded by	Donald Hooper
Personal details
Born	(1951-06-21) June 21, 1951 (age 61) Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Dorothy Foster
Alma mater	Middlebury College
Religion	United Church of Christ

James H. Douglas (born June 21, 1951) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont. A Republican, he was elected the 80th Governor of Vermont in 2002 and was reelected three times with a majority of the vote. He left the office in January 2011.

On August 27, 2009, Douglas announced that he would not seek re-election for a fifth term in 2010.

On January 3, 2011, Douglas became an executive in residence at Middlebury College^[1] where he taught a 24 student course titled Vermont Government and Politics.^[2]

Early career[link]

Douglas was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1968, he graduated from East Longmeadow High School, East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, where he had been active in the College Republicans. At Middlebury College, Douglas was a Russian Studies major. Vermont maintains a sister-state relationship with Karelia, Russia, though this relationship was started in 1991 under the governorship of Madeline Kunin.^[3]

In November 1972, Douglas was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives, where he became the House Majority Leader during his third two-year term at the age of 25. He left the Vermont General Assembly in 1979, afterwards serving as a top aide to Governor Richard A. Snelling. Douglas was elected Secretary of State in November 1980, a post which he held until 1992. That year he sought election to the U.S. Senate, but was defeated by Democratic incumbent Patrick Leahy. In November 1994 he was elected Vermont State Treasurer, after receiving the endorsement of both major parties.

Governor of Vermont[link]

In the 2002 gubernatorial election to succeed five-term Governor Howard Dean, Douglas defeated Democratic Lieutenant Governor Doug Racine, 45 to 42 percent. The Vermont constitution requires that the state legislature select who is to become governor if no candidate receives over 50% of the votes. Because neither candidate won 50% of the vote, Douglas was officially selected by the legislature as required by the state constitution. Douglas won reelection to a second two-year term in 2004, defeating Democrat Peter Clavelle, 59 to 38 percent.

In early 2005, Douglas announced that he would not run against Democratic-leaning independent Jim Jeffords in the 2006 Senate race. In April 2005, Jeffords announced that he would not seek re-election, which led to speculation that Douglas would throw his hat into the ring against Vermont independent Congressman Bernie Sanders, who had announced his candidacy for the seat. On April 30, Douglas announced again that he would not seek Jeffords' seat, and simultaneously announced that he would run for re-election for governor in 2006. Many pundits believed that Douglas was the only Republican who could possibly defeat Sanders, and his decision to run for governor effectively handed the open Senate seat to Sanders. Douglas was re-elected governor with 57% of the vote over Democrat Scudder Parker.

On May 22, 2007, Governor Douglas signed a landmark civil rights bill banning discrimination on the basis of gender identity by employers, financial institutions, housing, public accommodations, and other contexts. This bill had already passed both chambers of the legislature by a veto-proof majority, so a veto would not have been able to prevent this bill from becoming law.^[4] Douglas had previously vetoed a similar bill in 2006.^[5]

Douglas decided to stand for re-election in 2008 and ran unopposed in the Republican primary on September 9, 2008. His principal challengers in the general election were Independent/Progressive Anthony Pollina, and Democrat Gaye Symington. Douglas won a fourth term, although with his lowest percentage since his initial narrow victory over Doug Racine.

Douglas became the first governor to meet with President Barack Obama in the White House on February 2, 2009.^[6] He also served as Chairman of the National Governors Association from 2009 to 2010.

On April 6, 2009 Douglas vetoed the bill allowing marriage for same sex couples in Vermont. The Vermont House and Senate overrode the veto the next day, marking the first time Douglas had been overridden during his tenure.^[7]

On June 2, 2009, Democrats in the Vermont House and Senate voted to override Douglas's veto of the Vermont state budget.^[8]

On August 27, 2009, Douglas announced that he would not seek re-election in 2010.^[9]

In early 2010, Douglas became the first American political leader to receive the National Order of Quebec from the government of Quebec and Premier Jean Charest at a ceremony at the Quebec National Assembly. He was recognized for strengthening Vermont's historical bonds with Quebec and making improved relations with the province a priority of his governorship.^[10]

Douglas remains popular among Vermonters. As of June 17, 2010 his approval rating stood at 65 percent.^[11]

Cabinet and administration[link]

Electoral history[link]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Vermont Governor Jim Douglas official state website
• Biography at the National Governors Association
• Biography, interest group ratings, public statements, vetoes and campaign finances at Project Vote Smart
• Biography at WhoRunsGov.com at The Washington Post
• Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
• Campaign contributions at FollowTheMoney.org
• Appearances on C-SPAN programs

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Jim Marrs
"If it is not an act of God, it is a Conspiracy"
Born	(1943-12-05) December 5, 1943 (age 68) Fort Worth, Texas US
Occupation	Journalist Author

Jim Marrs (born 5 December 1943) is an American former newspaper journalist and New York Times best-selling author of books and articles on a wide range of alleged cover ups and conspiracies.^[1] Marrs is a prominent figure in the JFK conspiracy press and his book Crossfire was a source for Oliver Stone's film JFK. He has written books asserting the existence of government conspiracies regarding aliens, 9/11, telepathy, and secret societies. He was once a news reporter in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex and has taught a class on the Kennedy Assassination at University of Texas at Arlington for 30 years. Marrs is a member of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth.^[2]

Biography[link]

A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Marrs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of North Texas in 1966 and attended graduate school at Texas Tech in Lubbock for two years more. He has worked for several Texas newspapers, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where, beginning in 1968, he served as police reporter and general assignments reporter covering stories locally, in Europe, and in the Middle East. After a leave of absence to serve with a Fourth Army intelligence unit during the Vietnam War, he became military and aerospace writer for the newspaper and an investigative reporter.

Since 1980, Marrs has been a free-lance writer, author, and public relations consultant. He has also published a rural weekly newspaper along with a monthly tourism tabloid, a cable television show, and several videos.

Since 1976, Marrs has taught a course on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy at the University of Texas at Arlington.^[3] In 1989, his book, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, was published and reached the New York Times Paperback Non-Fiction Best Seller list in mid-February 1992.^[3] It became a basis for the Oliver Stone film JFK. Marrs served as a chief consultant for both the film's screenplay and production,Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy.

Beginning in 1992, Marrs spent three years researching and completing a non-fiction book on a top-secret government program called the Stargate Project involving the psychic phenomenon known as remote viewing, only to have the program canceled as it was going to press in the summer of 1995. Within two months, the story of military-developed remote viewing broke nationally in the Washington Post after the CIA revealed the program.

In May 1997, Marrs' investigation of UFOs, Alien Agenda, was published by HarperCollins Publishers. Publishers Weekly described Alien Agenda as "the most entertaining and complete overview of flying saucers and their crew in years." The paperback edition was released in mid-1998. It has been translated into several foreign languages and become the top-selling UFO book in the world.

In early 2000, HarperCollins published Rule by Secrecy, which claimed to trace a hidden history connecting modern secret societies to ancient and medieval times. This book also reached the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2003, his book The War on Freedom probed the alleged conspiracies of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath. It was released in 2006 under the title The Terror Conspiracy.^[4]

Marrs has been a featured speaker at a number of national conferences including the annual International UFO Congress^[5] and the annual Gulf Breeze UFO Conference,^[6] but he also speaks at local conferences, such as Conspiracy Con^[7] and The Bay Area UFO Expo.^[8] Beginning in 2000, he began teaching a course on UFOs at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Marrs has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, The Discovery Channel, TLC, The History Channel, This Morning America, Geraldo, The Montel Williams Show, Today, TechTV, Larry King (with George Noory), and Art Bell radio programs, as well as numerous national and regional radio and TV shows.

In October 2011, Jim Marrs started his own radio program, "A View from Marrs" on the Jeff Rense Radio network airing three times a week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 p.m. Central time. Marrs has on his show a wide variety of guests and dedicated the entire month of November to the latest information regarding the JFK assassination. He also has subject matter on UFO research, survival tips, and much more.

Media[link]

Books[link]

• ISBN 978-0-06-197068-9 The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America (Hardcover, June 2010)
• ISBN 978-1-934708-29-3 The Sisterhood of the Rose (Hardcover, November 2009)
• ISBN 978-1-934708-09-5 Above Top Secret (paperback, October 2008)
• ISBN 978-0-06-124558-9 The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America (hardcover, June 2008)
• ISBN 978-1-932857-43-6 The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of Liberty (paperback, 2006) (An expanded and updated version of "The War On Freedom")
• ISBN 978-1-57983-013-7 Inside Job: Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies (paperback, 2004) (the first section of "The War On Freedom" plus some appendices not included in other books)
• ISBN 978-0-9727131-1-5 The War On Freedom (paperback, 2003)
• ISBN 978-0-9727131-0-8 Psi Spies (paperback, 2002)
• ISBN 978-0-06-093184-1 Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids (paperback, 2001)
• ISBN 978-0-06-095536-6 Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us (paperback, 2000)
• ISBN 978-0-88184-648-5 Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (paperback, 1993) (#5 New York Times non-fiction paperback bestseller, February 1992)

Videos[link]

• Safespace - Fastwalkers - Winter 2006

Audio[link]

CDs

• 16 Questions^[9] {Original CD is corrupted, no longer available.}

Radio Interviews
Though participating in a number of radio shows, it has become tradition for Jim Marrs to be the guest of the season premier of Binnall of America Audio

• Binnall of America Season 1 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - September 10, 2005
• Binnall of America Season 2 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - September 30, 2006
• Binnall of America Season 3 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - October 20, 2007
• Binnall of America Season 4 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - October 26, 2008
• Binnall of America Season 5 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - November 24, 2009
• Binnall of America Season 6 Premier - Part 1 and Part 2 - November 29, 2010
• Binnall of America Season 7 Premier - [1] May 1, 2012

See also[link]

• Conspiracy theories
• Mark Dice
• James Fetzer
• David Ray Griffin
• Steven E. Jones
• Jeff Rense
• Aaron Russo
• Webster Tarpley
• Loose Change
• David Icke
• Alex Jones

References[link]

External links[link]

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