Update on Kucinich’s H.Res. 333, What Happened Tues. and What’s Next

Update: Kucinich’s Resolution Survives Tabling Attempt, Is Referred to Committee

Kucinich will hold a town meeting this week either on the phone, internet or both. Stay tuned for information.

Impeach supporters, I think this week is a fine time to continue to ask our representatives to sign on as a co-sponsor to the bill. There are 22 co-sponsors so far and after what went down yesterday, I feel with a little more constituent pressure to do the right thing, they could be swayed.

Call Your Congress Members AND Nancy Pelosi toll free at:
1-800-828-0498
1-800-862-5530
1-800-833-6354

Thank you!

PS: it’s important to refer to Kucinich’s resolution as “H.Res.333″ — not “HR333.”
PSS: When you call, go ahead and ask them to start or at least support charging Cheney AND Bush with these additional crimes which are not included in H.Res.333. The charges include: Indefinite detention (habeas corpus), torture, FISA illegal wiretaps and signing statements. (see Takoma Park, MD’s Resolution- it’s a good one!)

LEARN MORE ABOUT IMPEACHING CHENEY:

• Documentation of Cheney’s Offenses
• Brave New Films Video
• Louis Armstrong Sings Impeach Cheney

More Impeach News:

• The National Lawyers Guild passed an Impeachment Resolution on Friday, Nov. 2nd 2007 and will begin a national campaign for impeachment of both Cheney and Bush, providing further support for the impeachment proceedings to be held this Tuesday, 11/06/2007.
• Yalies for Impeachement
• Impeachment is “Good to Go” and would take a minimum amount of time to prove.

Breaking: Tell your reps to oppose retroactive immunity for phone companies’ lawbreaking.

Scooped from MoveOn member email…

Newsweek recently reported that the nation’s biggest phone companies, “working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress to quickly approve a measure wiping out all private lawsuits against them” for helping the Bush administration illegally wiretap innocent Americans.

Yesterday, President Bush weighed in publicly, promising to veto an upcoming bill dealing with our nation’s wiretapping policy if it doesn’t give corporations retroactive immunity for their lawbreaking. Pending lawsuits could be the only way Americans ever find out how far Bush went in breaking the law—Bush’s threat yesterday is an attempted cover-up.

Some Democrats like Sen. Russ Feingold immediately said no to Bush. But House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said retroactive immunity “is not off the table.”

Can you call Congressman Christopher Van Hollen today? Tell him to oppose retroactive immunity for phone companies’ lawbreaking.

Congressman Christopher Van Hollen
Phone: 202-225-5341

Call Other Reps:

Tel: (202) 224-3121 — Capitol Hill Switchboard. (800) 828 – 0498 — Toll Free Congress

Participant statements to Chris Van Hollen at the 9/20 meeting

On Thursday, September 20, over two dozen impeachment supporters from Maryland’s 8th Congressional district met with our Congressman, Chris Van Hollen, to urge him to support the impeachment of George Bush and Richard Cheney. (The meeting is described in the prior post, “A town hall meeting on Capitol Hill.”) At a preparatory meeting on Tuesday, several participants volunteered to draft short, 60 second statements to deliver to Chris Van Hollen at opportune times throughout the meeting.

These are those statements, in the order that they were presented to Mr. Van Hollen. They are by Warren Kornberg, Thomas Nephew, Jim Agenbroad, Hank Prensky, and Joyce Sherfey.

Warren Kornberg, Garrett Park

We respect the need you see for drastic legislative reform, to strengthen your grip on the Congress and to recapture the White House. But we wonder if you see what you’re staking on a single throw of the dice—on the outcome of the next election.There is a cancer at the heart of our Democracy that did not exist six years ago. So many extralegal, unconstitutional powers are now concentrated in the hands of the President that we don’t dare pass that office on to any successor, regardless of Party, without first rooting out the disease.You appear to believe that if Democrats win the Presidency, the abuses of the Bush Administration will be laid to rest. But what if you lose the next election? What if those accumulated powers pass to a Bush or Cheney clone, or someone even less committed to the rule of law?

A town hall meeting on Capitol Hill

On the morning of Thursday, September 20, over two dozen impeachment supporters from Takoma Park, Garrett Park, and elsewhere in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District crowded into a meeting room in Longworth House Office Building for a wide ranging discussion with Rep. Chris Van Hollen.

State Senator and constitutional expert Jamie Raskin and Takoma Park Mayor Kathy Porter were among the delegates, who also included Lisa Moscatiello, Thomas Nephew, and Hank Prensky from Takoma Park, Warren Kornberg and Jim Agenbroad from Garrett Park, and Alan McConnell from Silver Spring, to name but a few.

Rep. Van Hollen was presented with a folder containing the Takoma Park City Council impeachment resolution, a list of signatories for the Garrett Park referendum, the agenda and attendance list for the meeting, prepared statements by several of the delegates, books on impeachment by Elizabeth Holtzman and John Conyers and his Judiciary Committee staff — and, in a small gesture he appreciated, a small box of “Impeachmints” candy bought at “Now and Then.”

What came next was basically a town hall meeting on Capitol Hill.

Statement of Maryland 8th CD impeachment supporters to Chris Van Hollen, 9/20/07

On Thursday, September 20, over two dozen impeachment supporters from Maryland’s 8th Congressional District met with Chris Van Hollen (D-MD-8) on Capitol Hill to urge him to support the impeachment of Vice President Cheney and President Bush.

Two days earlier, impeachment supporters including George Taylor, Hank Prensky, and Jay Levy of Takoma Park, and Warren Kornberg, Joyce Sherfey, and Jim Agenbroad of Garett Park, met in Takoma Park to prepare for the meeting. The following statement (principal author: Lisa Moscatiello) was read and accepted as a joint statement.

Lisa read the statement to Representative Van Hollen as the first order of business at the Thursday morning meeting.

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On July 23rd, the City of Takoma Park passed a resolution asking that Congress introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney and President Bush. In the coming weeks another city in your district, Garrett Park, will be holding a referendum on a resolution that is nearly identical to the one Takoma Park passed.

We are asking you to honor the wishes of your constituents by introducing legislation in Congress based on the language in these resolutions. We are asking that you introduce such legislation boldly, making a statement on the floor of the House in front of C-Span cameras about why this bill is needed at this time. You can turn this into an opportunity to take charge of the national conversation about what this country stands for and why it is worth asking people to give their lives for it.

Garrett Park, MD – Council Vote Sept. 10

Garrett Park Impeach Bush and Cheney

Call Mayor Carolyn Shawaker (301) 942-0766

Organizer – Warren Kornberg

email: gpimpeach@comcast.net

ALERT: Garrett Park Town Council Meeting will vote on an Impeach Bush and Cheney Resolution – September 10th at 7:30 PM!! Be there! email: gpimpeach@comcast.net

Volunteers Needed: download and print (or send to your local copy shop). Distribute these flyers. We recommend light green card stock. PDF file: Garrett Park, MD city council vote flyer please distribute!

If Only Congress Had the Courage of Jeffery and Nicole Rank

Jeffery and Nicole Rank recently settled with the federal government for $80,000 in the federal lawsuit they filed against the Secret Service. The couple was ousted in handcuffs from a Fourth of July Presidential speech in 2004 by order of the Secret Service. Their crime: Refusing to cover t-shirts they were wearning that expressed anti-Bush statements. The federal government has admitted no wrongdoing.

An article in today’s Washington Post reveals the existence of a “Presidential Advance Manual” marked Sensitive–Do not copy that contains instructions for volunteers on how to identify and silence dissenters in a crowd. The Ranks are American heroes who had the courage to fight for our First Amendment rights. Nicole Rank even lost her FEMA job as a result of their arrest (she has since been reinstated). We need to demand that our members of Congress become willing to risk THEIR jobs to defend the constitution. They did, after all, swear an oath to do so when they took office.

Write to Congress Today!

www.senate.gov www.house.gov

8/18 – Tell Congress to Impeach Bush and Cheney!

Send this video to 10 friends, and on 8/18/07 tell congress to IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY! http://www.myspace.com/impeach818 http://www.congress.org http://www.house.gov http://www.senate.gov . Thanks for your support, and don’t forget: Tell 10 friends and on 8/18 we will be heard, 50 Million strong!

Rep. Ed Towns Joins Nineteen Other Patriots; Cosponsors Impeachment Bill

Yesterday Rep. Ed Towns of Brooklyn, NY became the nineteenth cosponsor to Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s bill to impeach Dick Cheney. Some of his constituents share their secrets on what they did to encourage their Congressman to actually represent them. Read this for some very good advice and then Call Your Rep. just to say hi and by the way, you’d like him or her to defend the Constitution by supporting impeachment. Here in MD8 that is Chris Van Hollen

Read the article in Afterdowningstreet.org

By Dave Robinson of Brooklyn

Five of us Brooklyn people met with Congressman Ed Towns yesterday and successfully persuaded him to sign on to H. Res. 333. For what it’s worth here’s what worked with Ed. The same elements I think can only help you guys in dealing with YOUR REPS.

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Montgomery County Council Member Valerie Ervin to Sponsor Impeachment Resolution

Photo by Seth Grimes

At a Wednesday evening Old Takoma Residents Association (OTRA) meeting, Montgomery County Councilmember Valerie Ervin said she would be happy to sponsor an impeachment resolution like the one Takoma Park passed on Monday.

She and her aides will be studying the Takoma Park impeachment resolution (.PDF file), which urges “our elected members of the Montgomery County Council, the Montgomery County Executive, the Maryland legislature and the Governor to consider and adopt similar resolutions.”

Let’s thank Valerie Ervin for doing this and also call our MoCo councilmembers and urge them to support this resolution.