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Town of Fairfax Urges Congress to Impeach Bush and Cheney

Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2006-07-10 15:50.

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The Town of Fairfax California voted unanimously last night to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney. Their resolution will be sent to representatives in Congress and to the House Judiciary Committee urging them to investigate and impeach the President and Vice President on a variety of charges.

The most serious charge was for intentionally misleading Congress about the threat from Iraq as justification for war. Other charges related to the torture and illegal detention of prisoners, and the illegal wiretapping of American citizens.

The resolution also tied into local issues by describing how White House actions are negatively impacting Fairfax. The town was hit heavily by floods last winter. The resolution describes how there is less money available for disaster relief, and fewer National Guard troops available for emergency aid, because of the war in Iraq.

A sign of how strongly Fairfax supports impeachment is the fact that two resolutions were being worked on independently. A group of Marin County citizens had prepared a resolution and were planning to have it voted on in August after slowly building grass roots support. In the meantime, Millie Barrett of Fairfax, feeling a sense of urgency because of the ongoing war in Iraq, started her own resolution without realizing one was already in progress. She quickly collected 200 signatures and was able to get the resolution on the Town Council agenda for July.

When the two groups realized that they were both working on impeachment they immediately joined forces. Millie wanted to add Dick Cheney to her original resolution because many people signing the petition had expressed concern over having Cheney replace Bush. When she learned that the other group's resolution was very similar but included Dick Cheney, she graciously agreed to use it instead of hers.

At the meeting Wednesday night in Fairfax, David Glick read the text of the resolution he had prepared. Many people from the town spoke in favor of the resolution charging Bush with violating our Constitution.

Two people expressed opposition to the resolution citing concern over whether it was inappropriate town business, or that it would be ineffective. Larry Bragman, Vice Mayor, said that even though the resolution is largely symbolic, it was better to do something than to do nothing.

David Glick said after the vote that he was "proud of our town council for considering and passing the impeachment resolution against the President and Vice President because there are always elements in the town that are opposed to local town councils addressing national issues. In this case I feel our town council understood that we are undergoing a true crisis of democracy and that they needed to live up to their oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution".

Millie Barrett was also pleased with the outcome saying "I am very proud to live in the liberal town of Fairfax. It's wonderful being in a community that cares about what's going on in the rest of the nation. I hope people get involved because one voice matters. It's very important for people to speak out."

Several of the folks present at the meeting had spoken out the day before by marching in a 4th of July parade in the nearby town of Sausalito. All along the parade route the crowds on the sidewalk spontaneously applauded and cheered when they saw the "Impeach Bush" banner. "I feel this is patriotic." said one marcher. "My loyalty to the Constitution is just greater than my loyalty to the politicians."

A final draft of the Fairfax resolution is available here.

http://www.impeachbush.tv/news/fairfax_vote_060706.html

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