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Listen to Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich speak on all the issues on the Ed Schultz show on AM760 Radio today (Wed. Sept.12) from 1:00 pm to 4:00pm, then go to Rep. Udalls Town Hall Meeting in Thornton, CO 4:30:-5:30 pm. Thornton City Council Chambers, 9500 Civic Center Dr, Thornton
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Kucinich won the ABC Poll after the second to last Democratic Debate and has been creeping upon the front runners ever since. It is an unprecedented three hours today when he becomes the first Presidential hopeful to accept the invitation of one of the nation's premiere radio broadcasters, Ed Schultz, for a no-holds-barred discussion of the issues in the 2008 campaign. Kucinich will be in Schultz's Fargo (North Dakota) studio beginning at noon (ET) to field questions from "America's #1 Progressive Talker" and from an audience that includes millions of listeners on local affiliates, including subscribers to Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio. The program is also streamed live over the Internet
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Please join Congresswoman Diana DeGette tonight at the Windsor Gardens Auditorium as she gives her constituents a progress report from Washington.

I got this information from her Denver Congressional District Office just a few minutes ago.

Location: Windsor Gardens Auditorium 595 S. Clinton St.

Time: 7 pm Tuesday evening May 29 (TONIGHT) 1 hour only... talk fast!

Directions from Denver: East on Alameda to Clinton and then South on Clinton for 1-2 blks. The Auditoriun is attached to the clubhouse and to the rear of it.

A great time to ask about her saving 1,000 US Soldiers lives by stopping the Iraq War Now, not next year.

And oh yes there is the issue of the Cheney WMD Lies that put our soldiers in harms way in the first place.

Is DeGette going to protect Cheney from accountability for the lies and make him pay a political price for lying.. or let Cheney skate?

Will she become a Co-Sponsor on US Rep. Kucinich's Bill to Impeach Cheney?

Does she think it is important that she vote to uphold and protect the US Constitution?

Does she think someone worse than Bush will every be President?
Could it be a threat to our Constitutional Republic if that happened?

Tell her Presidents will never fear Impeachment or respect Congress if she and the others Never Impeach anyone.

How about Gonzales?

She's your Congresswoman and she works for you.

Tell her (respectfully) what you want her to do.

Impeachment Activists will hold 2 Downtown Denver Impeach Cheney events on Wednesday May 23rd.

They will be demonstrating to ask Congress to Impeach Vice President Cheney for lying to Congress about Weapons Of Mass Destruction in Iraq in order to get permission from Congress to Invade Iraq.

The first event will be at the State Capital at Noon-1 pm at Lincoln & 14th.

The second event is at Colfax & Broadway at 5:00 pm in front of the Denver Post-Rocky Mountain News Building.

All are welcome. We have Impeach Signs for You To Carry... Just Show Up
Both event are one hour in duration.

Weather for Wed:
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Vote to Impeach VP Cheney First! in the Online MSNBC Impeachment Poll
Link

Send Email to your Congressman/woman and tell them to become a Co-Sponsor of US Rep. Kucinich's Bill to Impeach VP Cheney HR-333
Link

Rep.Alice Borodkin emailed the good news a few minutes ago.

"We passed the Senate version(SMJ07-002). Actually, I was glad we did.
It had much stronger wording in it. If we did not pass that,
the entire resolution would have been lost."

See... all those emails we asked you to send to legislators really paid off.

The effort to influence the Senate to adhere to their version and the House Democrats to adopt the Senate version was enthusiastically supported by our 1StProtestInTheStreet.Org PNA group, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center of Boulder, CO and members of many other peace and justice and anti-war groups across Colorado.

More later... Ritter will surely sign it. Yes?

Activist Groups believe impeachment is 'more on the table than people think'

Many activists including this writer think a backlash is rising to Speaker Pelossi's "Impeachment is off the table" congressional policy.

Progressive Democrats Of America had a major presence at the California Democratic Convention and pressed for adoption of a resolution by the California Dems to investigate and Impeach Bush and Cheney.

And across the nation on April 28 the many member groups of A28 http://A28.org held 100s of Impeachment rallys.

There were five in Colorado including two on last Saturday in Denver spondored by local activist groups. The groups in Denver were Weekly Vigils To Impeach Link , Progressive Democrats of Colorado http://pdcolorado.org , Impeachment By The People Link , and Colorado 911Visibility Link

Dave Chandler of the Metro Denver Greens counted at least 75 in attendance.(photos)
Link Other photos at Link We were glad to see MoveOn members there as well. Thanks guys.

At the MoveOn organized Veto The Veto Rally on Wednesday May 4 a great many Impeach Bush and Cheney signs were in view. The event was supported by most Colorado activist groups from the Denver area and many attended. I think there were perhaps 2-300 total there. The group occupied the entire block between Colfax and 14th on Lincoln at the Capital.

MoveOn has for some years kind of ignored the possibility of impeachment but even it is being pressured by other activist groups and by its own members to deal with impeachment.

At an A28 California Impeachment Rally many were from MoveOn. "One third of those were Move On members," said Will McRae, MoveOn coordinator for San Diego County. "For MoveOn to pretend impeachment isn't on the table is the same as Pelosi. They need to put it on their website [for a vote]. We owe it to our members." Link

At the California Democratic Convention
PDA president Tim Carpenter called passage of the impeachment resolution by California delegates "the culmination of one month of effort by PDA to put the issue of investigating, accountability and impeachment" on the table.

On Saturday, Carpenter revealed, he met with Pelosi. "I think the fact that she met with us shows she is a listener," he said, but he added, "We agreed to disagree."

Impeachment is a constitutional imperative, he believes. "If we don't begin to talk about impeachment, the next president will be allowed to torture, do wiretapping, lying, and engage in manipulation of everything in signing statements," the PDA leader predicted.

Jim Dean, head of Democracy for America and brother of Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean, said "I think it's more on the table than people think."

Some of the above from this article by Miriam Raftery at Rawstory.com
Published: Wednesday May 2, 2007
Link

The California Democratic Party held its Annual Meeting and passed a resolution

CALLING FOR FULL INVESTIGATION INTO ABUSES OF POWER
BY PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH AND RICHARD B. CHENEY

Text of CA Democratic Party Impeachment Resolution
April 30, 2007, San Diego, CA Link

REAS, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have acted in a manner contrary to their trust as President and Vice President, subversive of the Constitution, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of California and the United States of America, by intentionally disseminating and propagating knowingly false and fabricated "evidence" regarding the threat from Iraq in order to wage a tragic, bloody war with the loss of thousands of brave American troops and Iraqi civilians, and

WHEREAS, it is clear that since September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have abused their powers of office by: 1) using information they knew to be false as justification for the U.S. invasion of Iraq; 2) condoning and authorizing the torture of prisoners of war; 3) authorizing wiretaps on U.S. citizens without obtaining a warrant; 4) disclosing the name of an undercover CIA operative contrary to law in order to harm her for her husband's opposition to the Iraq War; 5) having suspended and denied the historic Writ of Habeas Corpus by ordering the indefinite detention of so-called enemy combatants without charge and without access to legal counsel; and 6) overstepping Presidential authority by signing statements used to ignore or circumvent portions of over 750 Congressional statutes he brought into law; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the California Democratic Party supports vigorous investigation of these charges by the Congress of the United States, including the full use of Congressional subpoena power authority to completely disclose the actions of the Administration to the American people and to take necessary action to call the Administration to account with appropriate remedies and punishment, including impeachment.

Submitted by Senator Art Torres (Ret.), Chairman of the California Democratic Party; CDP Resolutions Co-Chairs; Emily Thurber; Bob Farran; Michael Barnett; Tim Carpenter, Joye Swan; Patrick Henry Demo Club; 69th AD Cmte.; The Hull-Richters; Alexandar, Mark and Natasha

(Adopted April 29, 2007)


Impeachment of at least Cheney is coming... it is just a matter of time.

Get on the train.

Since Jan 24 our group PNA 1stProtestInTheStreet.Org Link
has through it's project website
WeeklVigilsToImpeach.US Link
has held two weekly vigils-protests per week to

a. Stop The Iraq War ( Now! and save
the 800 US Soldiers who will be killed
and the 8000 who will be seriously wounded
prior to the
fantasy withdrawal dates that have been proposed in 2008.

b. Impeach Bush and Cheney
for lying to Congress to get an OK to go to War
( and a few other reasons of course)

Many members of ProgressNowAction.Org have emailed us
or signed up on the Calendar listings
to say they were coming to the
Stop Iraq War Now protests.

The only one who 'ever' showed up was Mike Collins last week
and we were thrilled...

Thanks Mike.

As a Vietnam Vet you know this is important
and you put your feet on the street that day to support
our effort to 'support the troops' by bringing them home.

We hope that today and each Wednesday more of you will attend and show our Colorado and Washington legislators that Stopping The War Now and Impeaching Bush/Cheney are important to you.

Todays event listing: Link

The day has finally come.

Per article in Rawstory.com by Michael Roston
Published: Tuesday April 24, 2007


Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will introduce Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Richard Cheney at noon today. The move will mark the first formal charges of impeachable offenses alleged against the Vice President in the course of the Bush administration.

The Congressman, a former Mayor of Cleveland and currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008, will hold a press conference at noon at the Cannon House Office Building. Kucinich's office has been tight-lipped about the particular charges he intends to array against the controversial Vice President, who according to a February Gallup Poll had an favorability rating of 37%.

The decision to lodge impeachment charges against the Vice President marked a new direction for Kucinich. Last year, he declined to support former Rep. Cynthia McKinney's (D-GA) impeachment charges against President George W. Bush, according to the Atlanta Progressive News. But after posting a video on his campaign website saying that he would consult voters as he campaigned around the country, the Congressman appears to have decided to move ahead with the impeachment charges against the Vice President.

The Congressman explained his rationale in the video.

"People are discussing it, not from the standpoint of their personal feelings towards Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney, but they're talking about it from the standpoint of 'Who are we as an American people? What are our standards? What is it that we expect from public officials? What should be the conduct of an individual who holds the office of President or Vice President?'" he said.

Kucinich's announcement today won't be the week's only impeachment-related proceedings.

On April 28, activists all over the country are planning a day of actions to promote the impeachment of both President Bush and the Vice President. Additionally, during the weekend,

Progressive Democrats will seek to pass an impeachment resolution at the California Democratic Convention, according to John Nichols at The Nation.

a DEVELOPING STORY.. ck the link later for more
current information.


1stProtestinTheStreet.Org Link

Try to Attend our Wednesday

Impeach Bush/Cheney-Stop Iraq War Now Event
at Lincoln & 14th at Noon.

We have signs... just SHOW UP

Greaat balls of Vermont Fire!!!

The Vermont Senate today voted 16 to 9 to send their US Congressional Delegation an Instruction to Start Impeachment proceedings against
President Bush & Vice President Cheney.

Colorado is a bellwether state too....
where is our State's Impeachment Resolution?

It only takes one State to get the Impeachment ball rolling. I think our Legislature should make the most of this historic opportunity. It would give our State Senators and Representatives a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate to the voters that they are Champions of our US Constitution and will defend it.



The following links have more information.....

Vermont Senate calls for impeachment of Bush, Cheney
By Shay Totten | Vermont Guardian Posted April 20, 2007 Editor's Note: This story was updated at noon with comments from Senate Pres. Pro Tem Peter Shumlin. Link

"The Vermont Senate this morning approved by a 16-9 margin a resolution calling on the U.S. House to launch impeachment proceedings of Pres. George W. Bush and Vice Pres. Dick Cheney.

The Vermont Senate is the first state legislative body in the country to call on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings. Impeachment resolutions are currently active in Hawaii, Missouri, New Jersey, and Washington. A measure in New Mexico was quashed earlier this year.

The move comes just days after nearly 150 people from around Vermont converged on Montpelier to urge lawmakers to pass such a resolution out of the House and Senate. The emotionally-charged, 40-minute meeting left backers hopeful that something could happen this session

The vote took place early in the morning and was over in less than a half hour."



More...
In an article by By Mary Elizabeth Fratini to the Vermont Guardian
Link

"On Town Meeting Day, 38 towns passed resolutions calling for Congress to introduce articles of impeachment against Pres. George W. Bush and Vice Pres. Dick Cheney. Since then, supporters have been urging state lawmakers to pass a similar measure.

"Vermont has so often been the moral compass of the nation. Huge swaths of Americans have hope in this resolution, and huge swaths of Vermonters support this critical issue, and you know that you are standing in the way of that," said Barry Aleshnick of Guilford. "



A similar Vermont House Resolution JRH015 Link
is bottled up in their Judiciary Committee where it has been for some months apparently.


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The following is the Resolution as introduced... not as passed...
not sure if there were any amendments... don't think there were.


RESOLUTION AS INTRODUCED 2007-2008

State of Vermont
Senate Chamber

Montpelier, Vermont
Senate Resolution

By Senators White and Shumlin,

S.R. 16. Senate resolution urging Vermont's Representative in the United States House of Representatives to introduce, and Vermont's United States Senators to support, a resolution requiring the United States House Judiciary Committee to initiate impeachment proceedings against the President and the Vice President of the United States.

Whereas, President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney have exercised the duties of their respective offices with respect to both domestic and foreign affairs in ways that raise serious questions of constitutionality, statutory legality, and abuse of the public trust, and

Whereas, the President's conduct in his role as Commander in Chief in leading our nation into the military conflict in Iraq, and the Vice President's continual advocacy for American troops remaining in Iraq, have cost the United States much of the good will that was extended to our country in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, and

Whereas, the President's and the Vice President's domestic leadership on issues relating to individual privacy and personal liberty under law has raised constitutional issues of the greatest concern to the nation's citizenry, now therefore be it

Resolved by the Senate:

That the Senate of the State of Vermont urges Vermont's Representative in the United States House of Representatives to introduce, and Vermont's United States Senators to support, a resolution requiring the United States House Judiciary Committee to initiate impeachment proceedings against the President and the Vice President of the United States, and be it further

Resolved: That the Secretary of the Senate be directed to send a copy of this resolution to Unites States Representative Peter Welch, United States Senator Patrick J. Leahy and United States Senator Bernard Sanders.


____________________________

PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE


ATTESTED TO:

____________________________

David A. Gibson

Secretary of the Senate

DATE:_______________________

Published by:

The Vermont General Assembly
115 State Street
Montpelier, Vermont

The source for the above: Link


Other Sources:

The State Of Vermont Legislature Link />

Vermont Senate calls for impeachment of Bush, Cheney
By Shay Totten | Vermont Guardian Posted April 20, 2007
Editor's Note: This story was updated at noon with comments from Senate Pres. Pro Tem Peter Shumlin.
Link