[Sosfbay-discuss] Green Party challengers urge soon-to-be House Speaker to impeach Bush

[Andrea Dorey]

It's statements like these in Drew's posting that make me proud to be  
a Green Party member!

On Dec 9, 2006, at 10:33 AM, JamBoi wrote:

> Green Party challengers urge soon-to-be House Speaker to impeach Bush
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> Friday, December 8, 2006
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> Green Party challengers urge soon-to-be House Speaker
> Nancy Pelosi to impeach Bush for 'crimes against humanity,'
> note Pelosi's failure to support impeachment is betrayal of voters
>
> SAN FRANCISCO (December 8, 2006)  The failure of soon-to-be House
> Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) to call for the impeachment of
> President George W. Bush and members of his administration should be
> considered a "betrayal" of her oath of office, said two former Green
> Party congressional candidates today.
>
> Pelosi, who has stated that impeachment is off the table, should "call
> George Bush before the U.S. Congress to be fully investigated for high
> crimes and misdemeanors, including crimes against humanity from  
> Baghdad
> to Biloxi," said Krissy Keefer, who opposed Pelosi in November as the
> Green Party candidate in the 8th CD.
>
> Not only did Keefer receive 7.5 percent of the vote running an anti- 
> war
> campaign with virtually no budget against an incumbent, San Francisco
> voters also approved Measure J, which asks their representatives to
> impeach Bush and vice president Dick Cheney.
>
> And, on Sunday, San Franciscans will be holding a giant "impeachment
> rally" at UN Plaza.
>
> "The war in Iraq, the botched response to Hurricane Katrina and the
> erosion of the Constitution cannot be overlooked. We have the moral
> responsibility to impeach. Failing to impeach will increase the
> likelihood that we may get someone capable of such crimes again,"
> Keefer said.
>
> And, Carol Brouillet, the Green Party candidate for Congress in the
> nearby 14th CD (Palo Alto), said she believes Pelosi has a "duty and
> obligation to impeach the Bush Regime. Silence in the face of an
> avalanche of evidence of criminality would be a betrayal of their oath
> of office, the people of this country, and our hopes for the future.
>
> "The Bush Administration has flagrantly violated our Constitution,
> trashed the Bill of Rights, launched illegal, immoral wars, lied about
> matters of utmost importance to the American people. These people are,
> truly, terrorists on an unprecedented scale. It is up to us, the
> people, to force our elected representatives to recognize and  
> adhere to
> their duty and hold top officials accountable for their heinous  
> crimes,
> that means impeachment," Brouillet added.
> -30-
>
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> JamBoi
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