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Call Shumlin this Weekend

(Having heard the Senate Prez Pro Tem speak at the State Democratic Committee meeting last month, calling him to account on this issue is major. How he reacts will determine whether he gets the support of the Constitutional Defense wing of the Vermont Democratic Party in a potential primary next year. – promoted by NanuqFC)

Peter Shumlin is waiting to hear from you.

Last week, with great flair and impressive gravitas, Senate President pro-temp Shumlin said that if he recieved an impeachment resolution, he would see that it moved through the Senate. But it turns out that he was only talking about the impeachment resolution that he knows will never get out of Gaye Symington’s House.

Senator Jeanette White has gotten an impeachment resolution drafted by the legislative counsel and would like to introduce it into the Senate. But Shumlin says that he won’t let it happen.

Did he talk the good talk about the Constitution and the rule of law because he believes in them, or because he saw an opportunity to curry favor without having to actually do anything?

Let’s let him know that we’re sure that he’s a man of principle who can be taken at his word. Let’s all give him a call this weekend and remind him of his promise.

Mr. Shumlin, we are drowning in cynicism, make us proud.

Making Our Own Way

(Once again, patrioticresponse sifts through our legislators b.s. – promoted by Brattlerouser)

At the very moment that citizens’ calls for impeachment are growing in number and in volume, our elected representatives are shrinking into their holes, plugging their ears and repeating out loud ” I will not listen I will not listen”.

The latest entrant into this hall of shame is Vermont Senate President pro-temp, Peter Shumlin. He grabbed the headlines last week by declaring himself to be in favor of impeachment as an obvious remedy to a lying and dangerous administration. However, he left himself an easy out by declaring that he would not interfere with the Vermont Democratic Speaker of the House, Gaye Symington who has squarely thrown herself in the protect Bush camp by denying Vermonters the right to have a debate on an impeachment resolution that is now in the House Judiciary committee. Now a Senate impeachment resolution has been introduced but Shumlin won’t let it move forward. saying that there is not enough support for it in the statehouse and it wouldn’t have any impact on the Congress. Here is a politican who shows every sign of thinking himself as gubernatorial material, but he doesn’t even have a fundamental sense of history.

There is no instant gratification when it comes to restoring democracy. Across the nation today, hundreds of efforts are being made to bring about impeachment. An impeachment resolution from a state legislature, or even a state Senate, would be an important catalyst that would draw attention to these diverse efforts, and it would lay the focus where it belongs, in the lap of the Congress.

In the meantime, impeachment fever has now spread down to the southern tip of New England. In Fairfield County Connecticut, an area represented in Congress by Republican Christopher Shays, several towns have organized impeachment committees. Citizens there, without the same town meeting forums that we have in northern New England, have to figure out how to best make their voices heard. It helps that in dozens of other towns organizing from the edge of Long Island Sound to the Canadian border, other voices are also calling for impeachment.

We look at each other in disbelief when our politicians act like cowards or fools. But we must return to the task of harmonizing and coordinating the voices for impeachment until they are so loud that they can no longer be ignored. The extreme urgency of our nation’s position regarding Iraq and Iran had led many more Americans to volunteer to help impeach this regime. Unfortunately, it also indicates that we have a very short amount of time left to act. Will we be reduced to reacting with protests to Bush’s next war, or will we have risen up in numbers large enough to have changed the direction of the government away from more war and folly?

Lead or Get Out of the Way

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Over the dissent of their executive committee, the Vermont Democratic State Committee today (March 24) voted overwhelmingly to call on the Vermont Legislature to endorse an impeachment resolution that has been until now stuck in the House Judiciary Committee in Montpelier.

Although the Vermont Speaker of the House, Democrat Gaye Symington, does not want to take up the issue, her counterpart in the Senate, President Pro-Temp Peter Shumlin,  called on the delegates to support impeachment. The vote was lopsided, with less than eight votes against, The State Committee also included Dick Cheney in their call for accountability, and demanded that the legislature take up the issue in this session.

This is a clear victory for the people of Vermont, who have followed up their town meeting calls for impeachment with a grass roots lobbying effort at the Vermont Statehouse.

Vermont’s Congressional delegation of Patrick Leahy, Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch have all voiced opposition to Vermont calls for impeachment. While Sanders and Leahy have great influence in the state, and receive support and admiration from a large majority of the population, they should be starting to realize that citizens know the difference between blind loyalty and thoughtful consideration. Vermonters are acting to save the Constitution and the Republic. Mr. Leahy and Mr. Sanders first interests on this issue seem to be staying loyal to the Democratic Party leadership. Maybe with the Democratic State Committee’s rejection of their anti-impeachment attitude, they will begin to see the light.

Peter Welch, who claims to be all about ending the war, is content to put all of his efforts into supporting resolutions that fund the war and make demands that the troops come home in a year and a half. Of course, Mr. Welch knows that if these demands survive a Senate vote (which they won’t) they will be greeted with a Presidential veto. But he persists in claiming that they are significant and carry the weight of law. Passing a House bill calling for withdrawal is a worthy symbolic gesture, but by itself is a rather pathetic one. If Mr. Welch wants to get serious about ending this war, then he will recognize that Vermonters are on the right track with their calls for impeachment and he will honor our calls by working with his counterparts in Washington to initiate the impeachment process.

The people’s voices are growing louder. As we saw today, even when their “leaders” are aligned against them, they will not be stopped. Today the Dems. Tomorrow the legislature. The next day the nation. We will not be stopped, because the law, the truth and the values of our Republic are on our side.

Who’s Listening?

New Hampshire Republican Senator John Sununu has just called for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. While it is remarkable for a Republican Senator to be in the forefront of calls for Gonzales to step down, it is more a sign of Sununu’s political pragmatism and his understanding of the new political realities in his home state.
Last fall (after the New Hampshire Democratic party made impeachment part of their platform), for the first time in decades, New Hampshire voted Democratic from one end to the other. Sununu has to recognize and account for this shift. He has to own up to the fact that New Hampshire folks can tell when they’re being lied to, and when they’re being sold a bill of goods. This administration has been doing both and Sununu would defend them at his peril.
  How ironic that across the river in Vermont, where 40 Vermont towns have now called for impeachment, where citizens have been lobbying their state legislature every day to get an impeachment resolution out of the Vermont House Judiciary committee, our Congressman, Democrat Peter Welch has decided that it is not practical or effective to consider impeachment, and that there is no need to even have this debate. The Democrat is affording more protection to George Bush than is his Republican counterpart. For that matter, Mr. Welch’s refusal to invoke his constitutional rights and duties directly protects Mr. Bush while doing damage to the Constitution.
  Mr. Welch instead pins his hopes on amendments to spending bills, or resolutions calling for a date to have the troops withdrawn. Mr. Welch is aware that the Republicans have the votes to uphold any Presidential veto. Furthermore, Secretary Rice has flatly stated that regardless of what Congress may say, the President will execute this war as he sees fit.
  The only action that Congress can take that will have any meaning and any chance of success is to issue articles of impeachment. Mr. Welch could make himself a hero to our state and to the nation.
  How could this Vermont freshman member withstand the fury of Pelosi that would undoubtedly come his way in response to introducing articles of impeachment? Consider this; in the last election, Welch was able to beat Republican Martha Rainville in part because a strong Progressive party challenger decided not to run. If Welch stands for the Constitution and calls for impeachment, he would earn principle credentials with many in Vermont who have been disappointed in him in the recent past. It would help him get a chance at a second term. If he stays loyal to the Pelosi plan, and is cast as another establishment Democrat, then he almost certainly will face a strong three way race for re-election. Would Pelosi prefer a maverick Democrat, or another Republican to represent Vermont?
  We can only raise the volume, and trust that our representatives will hear before it’s

The ties that bind us

 
One week ago, the calls for impeachment at Vermont town meetings showered sparks across our state, igniting a smoldering populace. We are coming to realize how great our numbers are, and we shall now harness our power to direct the attention of our representatives.
This past weekend, Cindy Sheehan, John Boniface and I spoke in Greenfield and Northampton MA, and the flames are spreading south of our border as well. The Western Mass. Progressive Democrats of America are working with MA towns to organize impeachment resolutions for town meetings in the coming months. The energy is palpable in the air.
But our spontaneous and determined march for democracy now meets with an unlikely barricade: the very leaders whom we have grown to trust and admire, the men and women who have spoken for the conscience of the Democratic party, stand in our way. From the chair of the state House Judiciary committee, to Gaye Symington the Vermont Speaker of the House, to our Senators Leahy and Sanders, the Democrats have taken their lead from Nancy Pelosi’s declaration that impeachment is off the table and have so far refused to consider even debating the issue.
When our representatives took their oath of office, they swore to uphold and defend the Constitution. Our Democrats have instead made their first allegiance to their party. In violation of their oath, they are making an election-oriented political calculation about an issue that is the very bedrock of our Constitution.
To make it worse, this unpatriotic calculation is not even accurate. By relying on the outdated D.L.C. philosophy of staying as close as possible to the Republicans on issues, so as to not lose the middle, the Democrats will instead lose everyone.
Their actions with respect to ending the war in Iraq show that they are not with us. Their actions on impeachment show that, not only are they not with us, they are against us. Their actions to date have done more to protect and defend George W. Bush than they have to defend the Constitution.

In November, America went to the polls and voted an overwhelming declaration against the war and the Bush administration’s policies. The Democrats knew this, yet they were out on November 8 saying that we had voted for bipartisanship and raising the minimum wage.
The same Democrats, who while in the minority were clamoring for the chance to investigate impeachment, are now saying that it is a luxury, or a waste of resources.
The American people have moved way beyond their leaders on this question. We can see clearly that the system has been violated, and we want it fixed.
  Vermonters and neighbors in other states have been shocked to hear about the resistance of our Democratic representatives. Pat Leahy, Bernie Sanders and Gaye Symington have done many admirable things in their careers, and we have become complacent, assuming that they would always act in our and the Republic’s interest. They are proving us wrong. Are we now willing to shake off that complacency and call for accountability? Are we willing to chip away at some of the guild on our political icons and realign their foundations as necessary?
The Vermont legislature returns from a town meeting recess today, March 13. They will be greeted at lunch by citizen lobbyists, who will be scheduling meetings with the Speaker and other members, and buttonholing lawmakers every day that they are in session, convincing them that Vermonters deserve to have a debate on impeachment, and that the Judiciary Committee should stop sitting on an impeachment resolution introduced a month ago by over 20 co-sponsors, and instead start working on it.
Vermont airwaves and news pages will be carrying ads, spreading the news about our people’s movement.
If our representatives continue to refuse to take direct action to end the war and save the Constitution, their constituents will occupy their offices. This is a movement to turn anger into creative change. This movement is the expression of the people’s sovereignty.
Our freshman Congressman, Peter Welch, faces a predicament. Should he back the leadership of Nancy Pelosi, and take his place in line with all the other unremarkable Representatives who do as they’re told? If he does, he can count on keeping his fine committee assignments and perhaps even moving up in the Democratic Party ranks.
Or will he listen to his constituents, take a stance for the constitution and file articles of impeachment against members of this administration? This would make him an American hero, not only in Vermont, where his bold action would be rewarded with a return ticket to Washington in ’08, but in America and the world as well.
It is time to speak to all Democrats about the power that is accorded those who make principled decisions, about the dignity that is bestowed upon those who live up to their oaths and promises, and about the scorn that is heaped upon those who would do neither.
They needn’t be our adversaries on restoring the Constitution. It’s now up to us to educate them.

Vermonter’s Impeachment Insurrection

Yesterday the citizens of Vermont launched an impeachment insurrection. 40 Vermont towns have now called on Congress to impeach the President and Vice-President.
On March 2,3, and 4, Three Vermont Iraq Veterans Against the War, Cindy Sheehan, John Nichols and I toured a dozen Vermont towns rallying Vermonters to support impeachment and to go to town meeting. The packed crowds who greeted us made it clear that they are sick of waiting and are ready to act. Folks had already organized impeachment forums and debates in mid February. They’d been out distributing literature about the war and impeachment. And those who just came to learn what it was about went away determined to turn that knowledge into action.
And at town meetings, on Tuesday March 6, we got the first taste of their labors.
Ellen McKay, a Middlebury College student, heard our words, wrote a beautiful impeachment resolution, took it to town meeting and, over the objections of the moderator, Republican Governor Jim Douglas, got it passed by unanimous voice vote.

Liza Earle listened to our arguments and used them to turn her first Richmond town meeting into another triumph for impeachment.
Many towns voiced near unanimous assent in their impeachment votes.

In Bennington, an impeachment resolution was introduced by a Democrat, and seconded by a Republican.

Not everyone had success. Moderators at several meetings managed to prevent debate by ruling the resolutions out of order, citing Robert’s Rules or declaring the subject out of bounds.
In the Vermont State House, an impeachment resolution, with 22 co-sponsors, is languishing in the Judiciary committee because the Speaker, Gaye Symington, does not want to act on it.

Vermonters are taking their frustration and anger at these tactics, and channeling them into a multipronged campaign to force impeachment onto the table in Montpelier and in Washington D.C.

We are starting a “lunch with a representative” citizens’ lobbying effort, coming directly to the statehouse and buttonholing representatives to advocate for impeachment.

We are launching a newspaper and radio ad campaign, explaining the situation and targeting Symington and the Judiciary Committee, as well as the rest of the state legislature and Congressman Peter Welch, who should be taking yesterday’s town meeting impeachment resolutions to the floor of the U.S. Congress tomorrow!

Many Vermonters have pledged with the Occupation Project, vowing civil disobedience directed towards our politicians who refuse to cut war funding. We are going to steadily turn up the heat.

As the criminality and unconstitutional actions of this administration went unchecked by the Republican Congress, we despaired thinking that resistance was fruitless. When the Democrats took control on the strength of our overwhelming antiwar vote, our hopes were raised that perhaps there would be accountability. Now, as Congress fails us, we’ve looked to each other, discovered that we are many, and we’re mad as hell.

The most exciting part of this amazing movement is that it is uncontrolled and uncontrollable. I may have acted as an instigator, but people have now taken it into their own hands; every day actions and ideas surface from different groups and individuals. At the same time, everyone is willing to help other people when asked. Ask a stranger to help you in a common cause, and you will become friends.

Towns across the border in NH and MA are warning impeachment resolutions for upcoming town meetings. On March 10, 11, Cindy Sheehan, John Boniface and I will be in MA, urging others to join our burgeoning movement.

There is no need to wait for us to come to your door. Look around and you will discover Americans of all viewpoints who know that this administration must be checked. Take a visible stand of any sort, and you will be recognized and joined by many. Help us reclaim the constitution. Take your own action and join the People’s Impeachment Insurrection.

A Message From John Nichols and Cindy Sheehan

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By John Nichols

Cindy Sheehan and I will travel Vermont this weekend, stopping in towns from Burlington to Brattleboro, to talk about why we think the president and vice president should be impeached — and the essential role that Vermonters are playing in the process. We come not to tell the people of Vermont how to vote on warrant articles regarding impeachment at their town meetings next week. That would be not just presumptuous but foolish. Frankly, the voters who have given America George Aiken, Ralph Flanders, Robert Stafford, Jim Jeffords, Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders do not need any advice from us about how to make political choices.

Rather, we come to celebrate the wisdom of Dan DeWalt, Ellen Tenney and the thousands of other Vermonters who have chosen to embrace a Jeffersonian vision of how Americans relate to their federal government, and to take some of that wisdom back to the rest of the country.

It was Thomas Jefferson who observed more than two hundred years ago that, “Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic.”

It was Jefferson, as well, who asked of those who would inherit that republic: “But will they keep it?”

The answer to that question, for this particular moment in history,
will come from the Vermont town meetings that debate calls for the
impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. No, decisions made in
town meetings across the Green Mountain State will not, in and of
themselves, restore the republic — which, rather than the punishment of
individual men, is the purpose of impeachment. But, as Americans in towns
and cities across this great country despair at the determination of
their president to surge the country deeper into the quagmire that is
Iraq and react with horror at courtroom revelations about the manner in
which their vice president has used his office to manage attacks on the
reputations and livelihoods of an administration critic and his spouse,
Vermont can signal to the nation that there is an appropriate response
to the crisis.

More importantly, Vermont can put that response — impeachment — back
on the table for use by the American people and their  Congress. The
attention to the votes cast by Vermonters will remind Americans that the
founders did not intend for the people or their representatives to
allow any president or vice president to act as “a king for four years.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was wrong to suggest, as she did during the
heat of last fall’s election campaign, that impeachment was “off the
table.”

No section of the Constitution can or should be rendered inoperable by
any politician — even a well-intentioned one.

The Constitution does not belong to the politicians. It belongs to all
of us. And the medicines it prescribes for the ailments of the body
politic are ours to administer.

Indeed, Jefferson argued that all power must ultimately rest with the
people, believing that citizens at the grassroots would always be better
suited than politicians in Washington to recognize the point at which
friends of the republic must defend its democratic aspirations and the
rule of law that underpins them. “It behooves our citizens to be on
their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in
themselves,” the author of the Declaration of Independence explained. “We
are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.”

Jefferson believed that the process of impeachment would at times begin
outside of Washington, with petitions from the states. His manual for
the conduct of Congress, written in 18OO and adhered to today, mandates
that Congress must accept such petitions and give them due
consideration. Hence, the votes cast at town meetings across Vermont next week can
extend beyond symbolism. If the Vermont legislature responds to the
message from the voters by conveying to Congres articles of impeachment,
as several legislators have suggested it should, the struggle to hold
the president and vice president to account will have been advanced. If
Vermont’s representative in the U.S. House, Peter Welch, chooses to so
respond, he can introduce articles of impeachment incorporating language
from the resolutions adopted at Vermont’s town meetings.

As the mother of a slain soldier who has proven that one person can
confront the most powerful man in the world and be heard, and as an author
who has spent a lifetime examining the interplay between people and
power, we come to Vermont to say that the impeachment process really can
begin in the town halls and community centers of this state.

And, we will argue, this is exactly as the founders intended. 

The authors of the American experiment had a deep and healthy distrust
of concentrated power, especially when that power was held by a regal
figure, be he identified as king or president. They crafted a
Constitution that made no mention of God, corporations or political parties. They
made no effort to establish a process for nominating candidates for the
presidency, and gave only the barest outlines for the selection of the
commander-in-chief — an electoral college was established, but little
preparation was made for how or when the electors would be chosen, let
alone who would do the choosing.

The founders figured that the American people would figure out how to
choose their leaders.

They feared, however, that after the selection process was done,
Americans would forget that they have the power — and, indeed, the
responsibility — to remove executives who transgress against not just the law
but the rule of law. The oath that the president and vice president take
binds them to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the
United States.” A failure to do so, as identified by the people and acted
upon by their elected representatives, forms the basis for sound
articles of impeachment.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney have, with their manipulation
of intelligence in a scheme to launch an unnecessary preemptive war,
with their repeated refusals to cooperate with a Congress that is
supposed to serve as a coequal branch of government, with their assaults on
scientific inquiry in order to prevent a fact-based discussion of global
warming by that Congress and the American people, with their violations
of laws that prevent presidents from ordering secret spying on the
American people, and with their abuses of positions of public trust to
punish critics of the administration’s policies have failed to “preserve,
protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

They have created a Constitutional crisis.

Now, it is suggested that those who would address the crisis with the
tools afforded them by the founders are doing harm to the political
process and perhaps the nation. The claim that impeachment represents a
dangerous diversion from the work of nations is at odds with everything we
know and love about our country.

No less an American than James Madison said, after assuring that the
Constitution would include a broad authority to sanction members of the
executive branch, observed that “… it may, perhaps, on some occasion,
be found necessary to impeach the President himself…” The occasion
has arrived. The necessary arguments for the impeachment of the president
— and the vice president — have been identified. That Vermonters are
among the first to recognize the circumstance does not surprise us.
Rather, it inspires us. This is why we have come: to share in a great
democratic moment, and to carry the faith forward to other Americans in
other states. It is the faith of the founders, a faith that is being
restored by the people of Vermont.


John Nichols, the author of The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’
Cure for Royalism [The New Press], and Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was
killed in Iraq and who has attracted international attention with her
anti-war activism, will appear in close to a dozen Vermont towns Friday,
Saturday and Sunday to take part in rallies, forums and discussions

Inaction is Complicity

George W. Bush has formally declared himself to be above the law. Using signing statements attached to legislation, in a way that they have never been used before, he has flatly stated that he is not bound by laws outlawing torture, that he can open the mail of Americans if he wants, and that being a “commander in chief in time of war”, he can damn well ignore any other law that pleases him as well. This will include any law passed by Congress that tries to limit his capacity to wage more war in Iraq or Iran.
  And Congress doesn’t have the nerve to do a thing about it.
  Apparently, their oath of office, swearing to uphold and defend the Constitution is, like so many other promises from Washington politicians, empty rhetoric.
  The American people know what action should be taken. A majority of us want to see the President impeached. We know what can happen in the next two years: a further downward spiral of the Iraq disaster, a new war with Iran, further erosion of our civil liberties, and tens of thousands of new terrorists created by the Bush wrong move recruitment machine.
  Vermonters are taking the bull by the horns. Citizens have warned impeachment resolutions in 23 Vermont towns, and in four other towns had legally valid petitions denied by their selectboards. An impeachment resolution, with over 20 co-sponsors, has been introduced in the Vermont House.
  Unfortunately, our Democratic leaders in Montpelier take their marching orders from our esteemed Senators Sanders and Leahy, and they have made it clear that they don’t want to deal with impeachment. Their sights are set on the next election and don’t want Constitutional responsibilities to get in their way. The fact that they are relying on old and discredited political wisdom to make their mistaken electoral calculations is beside the point.
  Vermont tradition has been to act when action is needed, and that is what is now happening across the state. Impeachment debates and forums have been organized in several towns, three alone during Presidents’ Day week.
  An eleven town “Town Meeting Democracy Tour” is covering the state on March 2, 3, and 4, when Vermont Iraq veterans, with the help of Cindy Sheehan , John Nichols and others will be speaking out about the need to take impeachment action now.
  The Democratic leadership in the statehouse hopes that this call will die of its own accord, but they are in for a rude awakening. Business as usual means being complicit in the looming deaths of more Americans and Iraqis. It means sharing responsibility for the utter destruction of a nation and, if we’re not lucky, an entire region.
  Vermonters have begun to call upon the legislature to act on impeachment. We know that it is within their rights, as outlined by Thomas Jefferson, and that it is their duty as evidenced by any cursory understanding of morality, justice and the Constitution to do so.
  For too long our political leaders have enjoyed the reputation of being small “d” democrats. They pat themselves on the back for being close to the people. They thank citizens for “doing good work” and then make sure that the fruits of that work never materialize.
  While many Vermonters have begun to call the legislature to task, it will take a deafening roar before it penetrates the barrier that they are nestled behind. The next few weeks will tell us if the people of this state are up to the challenge of making that roar heard.

How to get the impeachment resolution out of the VT House judiciary committe

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George Bush has formally placed himself above the law with his signing statements, declaring himself not bound by laws prohibiting torture or opening the mail of Americans to name a couple. the Congress is not yet willing to act. We have a chance to jumpstart them into motion.
A Vermont House  resolution calling for the impeachment of George Bush is now waiting action in the Judiciary committee. It will take a flurry of calls and letters to get them to move on it. Unfortunately, Sanders and Leahy both have been putting pressure on the statehouse leadership to not take action. the will of the people only goes so far with these two, apparently.
Here is a list of phone numbers of the judiciary members. The numbers came from the legislature’s web site, so don’t be shy about calling. Please tell them to move on this resolution and let it go to the House floor for consideration.
Bill Lippert , chair – 482.3528
Maxine Grad – Moretown 496.7667
Margaret Flory – Pittsford 483.6854
Alison Clarkson – Woodstock 457.4627
Andrew Donaghy – Poultney 287.9693
Avis Gervais – Enosburg 933.4794
Willem Jewett – Ripton 388.0320
Patty Komline – Dorset 442.8613
Kathy Pellet  – Chester  875.1372
Dick Marek – Newfane has already signed on as a
co-sponsor.
Speaker Gaye Symington also requires some persuasion. You can call her at 899.3324.

National Figures Taking Interest in Vermont Impeachment Movement

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Vermonters’ efforts to get impeachment and “troops home now” resolutions on town meeting warnings, as well as working for impeachment legislation in the Vermont legislature has captured the attention of several national figures calling for impeachment.

John Nichols and Cindy Sheehan have offered to come to Vermont the first weekend in March, to help us rally folks to get out to town meeting votes, and to bring these resolutions up as “other business to come before the town” in towns that didn’t get them warned.
Cynthia McKinney has also expressed interest in joining them.

David Lindorff, co-author of “The Legal case for Impeachment” will be making appearances for us in Brattleboro and Manchester on Feb. 3.

Elizabeth Holtzman, who served on the House Judiciary Committee that impeached Richard Nixon, and author of “the Impeachment of George W. Bush”, has offered to come and address legislators about their rights and duties regarding impeachment.

That is because Vermont, with some help from Maine, NH and MA, is serving as a catalyst to the nation.
We are showing them what a citizenry can do when it stands up and says “enough”.

We should declare this an insurrection of reclamation.

The executive branch has subverted our constitution and illegaly seized power from the legislative branch. With illegal signing statements, Bush declares the right to open the mail of Americans, to sieze and hold without explanation American citizens, to wiretap without warrant our conversations and emails.

We will not rest until this foul genie of a unitary executive branch is put back in the bottle and its perpetrators held accountable.

We will force a return to the principles upon which we were founded.

As Congressional investigations unearth damning facts and are met with stonewalling and resistance by the Bush administration, it will be the outrage of the American people, not our politicians who will force them to face their constitutional duty and vote articles of impeachment.

Join us. Take back the Republic.
visit VTImpeach.com