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February 6, 2008 at 10:01:53

Headlined on 2/6/08:
Multiple Impeachment Resolutions pass in Minnesota Democratic Party precinct caucuses

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With record turnout last night to the DFL (Democratic Farmer-Labor) Party precinct caucuses all over the Twin Cities, impeachment resolutions passed in a number of areas. In my precinct in Senate District 62, Precinct 11/7, the small group that remained until the end of a long night voted narrowly to pass my very strongly worded resolution in support of efforts to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.

Barrack Obama won our highly progressive and very involved precinct's support 355-120 over Hillary Clinton and went on to resoundingly win Minnesota's delegates as well. Last caucus 170 people voted in total so this represents a huge increase in voter participation.

I received a phone call from Tom Lobello this morning who reported that his similar impeachment resolution, taken directly from our website, had passed resoundingly by voice vote in SD 58, Precinct 4/6 in 'Nordeast' Minneapolis.

Impeach for Peace cofounder Jodin Morey had similar success at his St. Paul caucus, stating:

"Mine passed. I don’t have an exact count, but it was about 70-4!!!"

Kristin Rafferty checked in from another area of St. Paul with good news as well:

"I had the resolution from your website all printed up and ready to go. All I had to read was "Resolution to Impeach Richard B. Cheney" and before I began to read anything more, the whole room loudly voted in favor. One man in the room said, "How about indictment?" The guy running the meeting pointed out that he remembered me bringing forward that same resolution at one of the last caucuses I attended."

It turns out that Ms. Rafferty had introduced an impeachment resolution four years ago that had also been unanimously passed.

This page at: http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?p=4730 will be updated as others report in. Please e-mail me at: MikaelMN@earthlink.net if you have any news of how impeachment resolutions fared around Minnesota and around the rest of the country.

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4 comments

Brett Paatsch is an Australian born secular humanist with degrees in management and science and an interest in politics. He is a former pro-American that wishes to be pro-American again and thinks the impeachment and repudiation of President George W Bush for the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 is necessary to reestablish trust in American signatures on international treaties and confidence in the global rule of law.
Brett PaatschBrett Paatsch is an Australian born secular humanist with degrees in management and science and an interest in politics. He is a former pro-American that wishes to be pro-American again and thinks the impeachment and repudiation of President George W Bush for the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 is necessary to reestablish trust in American signatures on international treaties and confidence in the global rule of law.

Good work Mikael

Please be aware that there is a golden opportunity to push the impeachment cause forward right now if Congressional Democrats call the Presidents bluff to veto any FISA bill brought before him that doesn't give immunity to the teleco that worked with him to spy on Americans.

It was spying on Americans that got Nixon removed.

Both Ted Kennedy and Keith Olbermann have pointed out that Bush has claimed the FISA amendments are necessary to protect American lives and yet he has also said that he will not accept them unless they include immunity for the telcos. That is an utterly untenable position politically and all the Democrats have to do is call his bluff by bringing a FISA bill to him without immunity. Immunity for the telcos isn't necessary to save American lives. Bush as President could pardon the directors of the telecos but the American victums of the telcos could still sue them.

If Bush vetos that FISA amendment bill he will by his own standards be stopping a law coming into being that he says will save American lives in order to give immunity from the law to those companies that with him helped break it.

All Democrats have to do to get a win here is call Bush's bluff. The media would then report the use of the veto. And again this is the issue that got Nixon removed ahead of impeachment.

by Brett Paatsch (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 22 diaries, 1041 comments) on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 7:01:15 PM

retired comm. fisherman, former teacher of the deaf-blind, Grandfather in a wonderful family (I'm a lucky/blessed man), environmental and radical/progressive political activist, Aging Hippie (60), Refusenik in the Vietnam era, served 2 years alternate service as a "judicial conscientious objector", counselor to young people on alternatives to military service.
Papawhaleretired comm. fisherman, former teacher of the deaf-blind, Grandfather in a wonderful family (I'm a lucky/blessed man), environmental and radical/progressive political activist, Aging Hippie (60), Refusenik in the Vietnam era, served 2 years alternate service as a "judicial conscientious objector", counselor to young people on alternatives to military service.

RE: Dems strategy

Let's hope that they can at least get this done and call Bush's bluff without screwin' up again or just folding and givin' His Dumbness what he wants, as usual. I await the train wreck, cynic about the Dems that I am.

by Papawhale (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 63 comments) on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 8:00:40 PM

retired and loving it
dave stanleyretired and loving it

Take

Note that one Telco company did not go along with the spying,the name escapes me at the moment I would organise a botcott of the companies that did spy.

by dave stanley (5 articles, 1 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 286 comments) on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 3:27:28 AM