USATODAY.com - Vermont town calls on Congress to impeach Bush
USATODAY.com - Vermont town calls on Congress to impeach Bush:
"NEWFANE, Vt. (AP) — In a white-clapboard town hall, circa 1832, voters gathered Tuesday to conduct their community's business and to call for the impeachment of President Bush.
'In the U.S. presently there are only a few places where citizens can act in this fashion and have a say in our nation,' said select board member Dan DeWalt, who drafted the impeachment article that was placed on the warning — or official agenda — for the annual town meeting, a proud Yankee tradition in New England.
'It absolutely affects us locally,' Dewalt said. 'It's our sons and daughters, our mothers and fathers, who are dying' in the war in Iraq.
The article, approved 121-29 in balloting by paper, calls on Vermont's lone member of the House, independent Rep. Bernie Sanders, to file articles of impeachment against the president, alleging that Bush misled the nation into the Iraq war and engaged in illegal domestic spying. (Related: Vermonters cling to town meeting)"
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It is not widely known that an entity such as a city or state has a legal right to present articles of impeachment as this Vermont town has done. Of course, that doesn't mean that such a "mandate of the people" (to use President George Bush's phrase) will come to anything. But you never know, it could make the spring fashions.
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