Chapel Hill (NC) Town Council Unanimous: Impeach Bush

[mnhtnbb]

Hurray for my town! Last night the Town Council unanimously voted to support three charges in favor of impeachment:

--Lying to Congress and the American people to start the Iraq War

--Violating human rights by detaining suspects without due process and
torturing prisoners in the U.S. and overseas

--Unleashing a massive wiretap and spying operation against citizens of the United States in defiance of the Constitution

The Council passed a resolution, in part, that said Bush "has acted contrary to law, and violated his oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States".

To send congratulations to the Mayor and town council:

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http://www.newsobserver.com/712/story/437391.html

[babylonsister]

1. Wow! NC? That's hugh! Thanks for the good news! nt

[mnhtnbb]

2. Actually, right in line for Chapel Hill

We're known as the "Berkeley of the South". Jesse Helms once said, "North Carolina didn't need another zoo, they could just put a fence around Chapel Hill". Ha. I'm proud to be an animal in this zoo!

[babylonsister]

4. When I think of NC, I think of my brainwashed brother, who is

in Raleigh. Thanks for the clarification.

[Hissyspit]

3. Chapel Hill, home of (one of my alma maters) UNC, so it is very much

a liberal Athens, GA/Iowa City, IA/Berkeley type of town. Drive a few miles though and you're in a tobacco field. No surprise they would vote that way, but still good that they are adding their voice.

[SpecialK]

5. Yay!! I'm proud to be a Tarheel Alumn!

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

6. ahhh, my hometown oasis in the red sea.

[Sugar Smack]

21. Isn't it great? This makes me so happy.

[autorank]

7. Two more points of the triangle ... a trifecta. Magnificent Tar Heels!

:yourock:

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. YAY!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Ian David]

9. I was just in the Greensboro, NC area a few weeks ago...

and what I saw in that part of the state scared me.

People who think their lives will be better if they put a "Ten Commandments" lawn sign in front of their ramshackle tin shacks, and anti-gay marriage stickers on their 1975 Ford Pick-up trucks.

Yeah, that's why they're miserable and poor-- gay marriage and an absence of the Decalogue in the courthouse.

I am glad that there are islands of overly hopeful sanity in North Carolina.

[Hissyspit]

12. North Carolina is Bible Belt.

Although, Greensboro is rather mixed with several colleges, including a Quaker college, but it is also a working-class town. Plenty of "Bush is the second-coming"-type LTTE over the past five/six years in the Greensboro News & Record, though.

[Leopolds Ghost]

24. So, any of those working class Democrats??

You can't have a Democratic party without working class people.

A token minority of working class people doesn't count, either.

(my mom grew up in North Carolina but her family was "damn Yankees"
and would be considered management level to boot.)

[marions ghost]

13. there are islands

of hopeful sanity in every state...not only NC.

Re. Gays -- Durham (next to Greensboro)= San Francisco of the South.
Carrboro (next to Greensboro) = an openly gay mayor

Yes, sanity and insanity exist side-by-side in North Carolina.

[Ian David]

14. I'm going to need to go back there in a few weeks...

It would be nice to see some Progressives and DUers down there.

Anyone up for a DU sushi dinner meet-up?

There's a new sushi place between the Wal-Mart and Curves.

[marions ghost]

15. maybe put it out there

as a separate post a couple of weeks out from your visit--there are DUers in the area.

Sushi between WalMart and Curves--how could anybody resist?

[mnhtnbb]

16. Former Mayor Mike Nelson of Carrboro (to whom you are referring)

just won the right to a Dem spot on the November ballot for Orange County Commissioner. Three seats are open--he placed third to the two incumbents beating a field of several others. Orange County traditionally elects Dems, so it's very likely he will win a seat in Nov as only one Repub is running.

[marions ghost]

20. Good

I will follow how he does in that capacity. Beyond his being gay, he's considered to be a good administrator. And that's the point, isn't it? Someday we will get beyond this stupid sexual orientation factor.

[Leopolds Ghost]

25. Isn't Carrboro "Research Triangle" yuppieville? Or am I thinking of

somwehere else?

[carolinayellowdog]

18. Most NC and VA urban areas are Democratic

Mecklenburg and Guilford counties (homes of Charlotte and Greensboro) voted for Kerry by small margins. Durham and Orange counties did so by huge margins, over 70%. Only Wake and Forsyth among major urban counties went for Bush, but both are parts of MSAs in which other counties did not.

Folks made a big deal of a red/blue east/west divide in VA after Kaine was elected. But despite all the red counties in the western half of the state, almost all the independent cities in the western half went blue: Roanoke, Lynchburg, Danville, and Charlottesville as well as Harrisonburg, Martinsville, Radford, and Staunton. Only Bristol and Salem were for Kilgore.

Chapel Hill and Carrboro are outliers, but urban Carolinians and Virginians are NOT reliably Republican voters. The more urban these states become, the better the chances of Democratic victory in presidential elections.

[marions ghost]

19. good points

it really does seem to be an urban/rural divide, aside from a few extremely Republican (wealthy) urban enclaves, such as VA Beach and North Raleigh.

I have to agree--NC and VA are NOT Forever Red by any means. Esp if we can get something approaching clean elections.

[lonestarnot]

10. Woooodamnwhooo!

[Hissyspit]

11. Dan Cote, last rat on the sinking ship:

Dan Cote, a Chapel Hill resident and chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, isn't one of the many.

Referring to lobbying investigations involving Rep. Jim Black and others, he said North Carolina Democrats are hoping to distract attention from "corruption in Raleigh."

Yeah, Dan, that's why dozens of other towns and various states are passing these resolutions, to distract from corruption in Raleigh, NC. Right.

Just who exactly is desperate?

[Supersedeas]

17. distraction distraction...Pubbies need a distraction

[nicknameless]

22. Woo-hoo, Chapel Hill, NC !!!

:patriot:

[Peter Frank]

23. K & R...

Chimpeach Cheney too.