Honor the Constitution! Emergency Action for Impeachment Wed 04/25 in Montpelier

Impeachment Action Wednesday, April 25
10:00 a.m.
Meet in the Cafeteria at the State House in Montpelier

Email from Liza Earle - Keep the phone calls going, and keep filling car loads up for Wednesday! You are each doing great, great work! Senators I've called to thank are delighted that they are hearing some nice words from their constituents. Keep the praises flowing--even publicly in a letter to the editor!

There are some murmurings that Gaye is currently considering allowing the resolution to be taken up for discussion rather than sent to a committee to die! That is by no means certain, and may have already changed since I last heard. But we have hope! If Gaye decides to not send it to committee, she will schedule a future date for the discussion/vote.

To Gaye's credit, she is realizing that in trying to keep impeachment from being a distraction, the real life "civic-minded citizens" of Doonesbury's "picturesque towns" have created a distraction she is not sure the House can continue to ignore.

No one is optimistic that the votes are there for the resolution to pass, even if debated, but there have been brick walls along this entire movement and many times they eventually turn into doorways for Democracy to enter in!

Brattleboro Reformer: Truth is winning out by Dan DeWalt -

The people of Vermont have just taken another giant step towards the day of reckoning for administration of Pres. George W. Bush administration.

When we were told by the Democratic leadership in the Vermont Legislature that there was no chance of impeachment action being taken by them, we refused to acquiesce and instead flooded the State House demanding that they listen to their constituents and honor the Constitution.

We also presented our case through letters to the editor and by calling in to radio shows across the state. Our arguments convinced many prominent commentators and editors to echo our calls, and when the heat had sufficiently turned up the pressure, the Vermont Senate changed course, introduced and voted quickly for an impeachment resolution demanding that the national Congress do their job and bring charges against Pres. Bush and Vice Pres. Dick Cheney.

Continue reading "Truth is winning out..."

John Nichols (Editor of The Nation, author of The Genius of Impeachment) - To All: Old Tom Jefferson would be rather proud of Vermont today, but I am prouder still. You have accomplished so much -- and you have made so much more possible. The Republic rests a little easier tonight, but only to gain the strength to renew and advance the struggle tomorrow -- with the words: "As Vermont Goes, So Goes the Nation!" With Love, JN

Howard Zinn writes -- "Vermont is setting an admirable example to the rest of the country as so many of its town meetings, as well as the state Senate, have voted for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. Certainly the policies of this administration meet the constitutional requirement for impeachment for "high crimes and misdemeanors." What could be a higher crime than to send our young halfway around the world, at the cost of thousands of their lives, to invade and destroy another country, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq, and bringing upon our nation the indignation of the rest of the world? Vermont's actions represent democracy at its best."