Let me echo what Susan A-R said. I too am a left-of-center Vermonter (okay, currently living in Minnesota, but always a Vermonter) who has voted for Jeffords repeatedly, and sat in in his office in Montpelier on occasion. (That occasion was the beginning of the Gulf War; six or seven of us ended up in Jeffords' office as the discussion before the vote was taking place; and after a while Jeffords got on the phone and talked with us for forty-five minutes about his vote. He didn't agree with anything we said; we knew we were unlikely to change his mind; but he listened to us and discussed the issues with us gravely and respectfully.)>br >br I listened to Jeffords' speech last Thursday, and saw the integrity that I've often voted for. I don't always agree with him politically, but neither (obviously) do the hard-line Republicans. He's been unbeatable in Vermont for decades (so much so that more than once the Democrats haven't even bothered to run a candidate opposite him), and NOT because he's a Republican.>br >br Put me on the proud-to-be-a-Vermonter list. Thank you, Jim!