Vermont Impeachment Campaign Blossoms

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Vermont Impeachment Campaign Blossoms
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2007-05-03 12:23. Impeachment

By James Marc Leas

The grass roots movement for impeaching Bush and Cheney blossomed in Vermont when nearly 400 Vermonters from 102 towns descended on the State House on April 25 to encourage Representatives to pass a resolution initiating the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

A mobilization of 130 Vermonters from 56 towns the previous week had inspired Vermont Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin to bring the same resolution to a vote in the Senate on April 20 where it passed 16-9. http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/resolutn/SR0016.HTM

Three times as many Vermonters came to the State House four days later with hope for a comparable miracle in the Vermont House. Invited by House Speaker Gaye Symington to fill the seats in the ornate House chamber for a town meeting with her two hours before the official House session began, the citizens spoke passionately as Symington presided. Speaking with conviction and eloquence, the Vermonters rose to call on Symington to become a national heroine defending our constitution from the high crimes of Bush and Cheney by supporting passage of the impeachment resolution.

The day before, Symington had reversed course about whether to allow the resolution to come up for debate and a vote. For months she had firmly opposed spending any time on the matter. But the outpouring of citizens the week before and the huge volume of calls and emails persuaded her that other business could not be conducted while the growing citizen movement was everywhere in the news and dominating discussion.

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