Seven Congress Members for Impeachment

'at the present rate of co-signing to HR 333, we should have 30 co-signers by Thanksgiving. Then what?'

You're right! We can't go on at the present rate! I believe that once the subject enters the public dialogue, it will really snowball. The thing that really blows my mind is how completely this subject has been squelched in the news!

Olbermann was being interviewed not too long ago by Brian Lamb, he was asked why he quit his job at MSNBC originally. The response was that he had done 286 consecutive shows dealing with impeaching Clinton, and he didn't want to get 'typecast' into being a one-trick pony. The network wouldn't let him move off topic, so he left the network (and has since come back)

In contrast, David Swanson has written that he's been unable to get anybody to poll the impeachment question- even for cash!

I think we really need to look at this, why they were so successful with the media saturation, and why we have been so unsuccessful! When we can answer this question, we are well on the way. Until we can answer this question, we are spinning our wheels.

I think you're dead right about the republicans- everybody is focusing on the democrats, but I believe that the REPUBLICANS are the ones we need on board- the democrats at that point won't need much in the line of persuasion.

in honor of Br'er Blackburn:

you can blow out a candle
but you can't blow out a fire
once the flames begin to catch
the wind just takes them higher

- from BIKO by Peter Gabriel

Drysdale

The corporatists will never allow Bush to be impeached. He is their boy and they are raking in billions with him in office. Pelosi and the rest of the Congressional leadership have to do the bidding of their corporate masters.

Pelosi is my rep and she seems more interested in not making waves than doing what's right. I hope we can toss her out of office next year and replace her with someone that actually believes in protecting and defend ing our constitution.

How 3 Activists, 1 Minister, & 1 Administrator Helped a House Rep. Sign H. Res. 333

Here is the process that culminated in our Rep. making the call to cosponsor the bill to impeach Cheney!

1 - I went to DC to see my new Rep.Yvette Clarke, sworn in the first week of 2007. Had never met her, but I hung out in her office and met her supporters, staff, campaign advisors. Went into the celebration room in the Capitol where we saw her cermonial sweraing-in. I introduced myself as a constituent interested in participatory democracy. Networked. Met her scheduler.

2 - Back home, I called her scheduler, trying to set up a meeting. In late Feb. the scheduler agreed, and asked if the Rep. could come to MY home. I set up a meeting with 35 people, including 3 Christian ministers I know (I work part-time in a church and have met some liberal clergy), a couple of people who have run for local office, a couple business owners and just neighborhood folks.

3 - With just 2 other activists in my neighborhood, we had multiple weekly lobbying contacts with her office focused on the Lee bill, all the Iraq Supplemental votes, and Impeachment, esp. after H. Res. 333 came up (in the form of emails and calls).

4 - Meanwhile we periodically emailed all who had attended the Feb. meeting, apprised of our contacts with her and encouraged them to lobby her during crucial vote times. Some of those folks did.

5 - One of the ministers we kept in the loop turned out to know the Congresswoman, and was also quite concerned about the Iraq moral crisis, the constitutional crisis, and the gathering of political power almost exclusively in the Unitary Executive branch. We spoke at some length, and we set up a meeting in Washington to meet with her and her Chief of Staff.

6 - We prepared a 45-page packet for Clarke including our agenda for the meeting, letters from 5 other clergy, urging her to take the lead on peace and accountability issues, plus extensive documentation on our issues; i.e., Supplementals, Oil Benchmarks, Unitary Executive powers, and H.Res. 333 for Impeaching Cheney. (Three of us local grassroots activists had researched and prepared this packet over several months.)

7 - At the end of the meeting her Chief of Staff had another staffer call Kucinich's office in our presence to officially sign on to the bill! All in all there were only 4 constituents at the meeting, and we got her attention for about 40 minutes.
We have plans to continue our in-district netorking with other faith-based groups and keep building on this relationship with our Representative, continuing to advocate for peace and accountability and impeachment.

We also will share our experience with folks (from liberal groups, faith-based groups or wherever we find them) in nearby districts, recruit them to do their version what we've done, only with their Reps, and go to Washington en masse to go visit each Rep's office in Brooklyn advocating for peace and impeachment.
Anyone from Brooklyn who is called to get in on this kind of advocacy, please contact us. We are serious about this but also have some laughs together, and it is satisfying to get some results once in awhile!

Kim Hughes, M.S.ED., Dave Robinson, Linda Kolts
Brooklyn, NY
http://groups.google.com/group/WeThePeopleLeadNow
vote to impeach Cheney: http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php

The people of her district should make it absolutely clear to Nancy Pelosi that she will soon be finished with her career in Congress if she does not PUT IMPEACHMENT ON THE TABLE.

Pelosi and her ilk are systematically destroying the United States by letting Bush get away with all his crimes. What are they thinking? They have neither morals, values nor intelligence.

If Bush/Cheney are not impeached, Nancy needs to go.