Vermont: Impeachment Mountains

You are invited!

Who: Peter Welch wants to hear why Vermonters support impeachment!

What: Public Forum to discuss Impeachment, the Constitution, and Democracy

Where: Hartford High School, White River Jct., VT

When: Saturday May 12, 2007, 11am-12:30pm

Why: The most corrupt administration in history continues to escalate its abuses of absolute power in the executive office. We, the people, need to escalate our dissent!

Rep. Welch Agrees to Town Meeting on Impeachment

House to take up impeachment on April 25, 2007: Join Rally to Assure Passage.

Vermont House Speaker to allow floor vote on impeachment.

Vermont's efforts make Italian TV News.

A very short clip from an hour long conversation with Rep. Gaye Symington and Sen. Peter Shumlin at the Montpelier statehouse in regards to a VT Resolution to Impeach President Bush: VIDEO.

Stepping Toward the Day of Reckoning

Text of resolution passed by Vermont Senate.

April 20, 2007, Vermont Senate Calls for Impeachment of Bush and Cheney: Vermont Guardian; Burlington Free Press; Reuters; AFP; AP

April 2007: Report from citizen lobbying effort in Montpelier.

April 2007: Call by Vermont's 3rd-largest newspaper for impeachment.

Vermont is passing impeachment resolutions in town meetings, and is now working on the state legislature as well. Catch up with the March 2-4, 2007, tour with Cindy Sheehan and John Nichols.

Ask the Vermont media to report on the tour and the resolution.

How a state legislature can compel the U.S. House to begin impeachment proceedings: Explanation.

Representative Daryl Pillsbury (I. Brattleboro) introduced a resolution on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007: JRH-15. It's headed for the Judiciary Committee.

Bill Text

Bill Status including cosponsors

If you live in Vermont, please contact your state representative to the Vermont House and ask him or her to please cosponsor.

Here are Judiciary Committee Members:
Bill Lippert chair - 482.3528, wlippert@leg.state.vt.us

Maxine Grad - Moretown 496.7667, maxig@wcvt.com

Margaret Flory - Pittsford 483.6854, mfk3229@yahoo.com

Alison Clarkson - Woodstock 457.4627, ackarkson@leg.state.vt.us

Andrew Donaghy - Poultney 287.9693, andy05764@aol.com

Avis Gervais - Enosburg 933.4794, agervais@leg.state.vt.us

Willem Jewett - Ripton 388.0320, wjewett@adelphia.net

Patty Komline - Dorset 442.8613, pkomline@leg.state.vt.us

Kathy Pellet - Chester 875.1372, kathy4house@vermontel.net

Speaker Gaye Symington also requires some persuasion: 899.3324, speaker@leg.state.vt.us

You can also email all reps with first initial, last name @leg.state.vt.us

If you're from Vermont, you can sign up to get involved by...

If you're from anywhere, you can sign up to stay informed, contact your U.S. representative and senators, and add your voice to a national call for impeachment by...

signing this petition for impeachment.

Contact local organizer Dan Dewalt and get involved at: http://www.vtimpeach.com

Audio interview with Dan DeWalt on impeachment, February 5, 2007.

Audio interview with Vermont Representative Daryl Pillsbury about impeachment, February 10, 2007.

Audio interview with Vermont Representative David Zuckerman about impeachment, February 11, 2007.

Audio interview about passage of anti-war resolution in Vermont House, February 13, 2007, with Representative Pillsbury.

Audio interview with Vermont State Representative Daryl Pillsbury, Feb. 20, 2007.

Impeachment in Vermont, By John Nichols

Sheehan will have floor to herself at Statehouse

Vermont: Land of Hope, by Cindy Sheehan.