[Sosfbay-discuss] Cynthia McKinney Urges Mass Mobilization for Impeachment

[Drew Johnson]

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Monday, June 16th, 2008

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McKinney Says People Must 'Flip the Script" Again
Urges Mass Mobilization Supporting Impeachment

In a prepared statement released today, six-term former
Georgia Congresswoman and candidate for the 2008 Green
Party Presidential Nomination urged the broad and diverse
Coalition forming around her campaign to "take any and all
steps necessary" to build support for action on H.Res. 1258,
the Kucinich resolution to impeach President George Bush.

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, on Monday, June 9th, spent
five hours on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives,
reading thirty-five Articles of Impeachment laying out
the case that George Bush ought to be removed from office
for 'high crimes and misdemeanors'.  In her statement,
Ms. McKinney extends her appreciation to her former colleague
"for his courage and tenacity, for the comprehensiveness of
his research, and for the leadership he exhibited to press
forward the democratic demands of the People for accountability
and justice."  On the Ohio Congressman's motion, his Impeachment
Resolution was then referred to the House Committee on Judiciary
in a recorded 251-166 vote.

Ms. McKinney became the first Member of Congress to introduce
Articles of Impeachment against the Bush Administration,
naming Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State
Condoleeza Rice in charges which she introduced during the
109th Congress.  McKinney parted ways with the Democrat Party
partly for their failure to fulfill their Constitutional
responsibilities, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took
impeachment 'off the table'.

Ms. McKinney drew particular attention to the Kucinich
Resolution's charges related to 'Tampering with Free and Fair
Elections' (Article 28), 'Conspiracy to Violate the Voting
Rights Act of 1965' (Article 29) and 'Katrina: Failure to Plan
for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to
Respond to a Civil Emergency' (Article 31).  She called on
"the forces of the Black movement nationwide -- whether they
currently support my presidential bid or the candidacy of
Senator Obama -- along with all my Green and Reconstructionist
supporters, Katrina survivors and their supporters, the election
protection movement, and all progressive forces, to organize a
mass mobilization" to demand action from the House Judiciary
to hold hearings, build an evidentiary record and send this
resolution back to the Floor of the Congress for action.

"We have seen in this very election cycle how the mobilized
masses, with Black America as their indispensable animating
force, can 'flip the script' on the Powers That Be," wrote Ms.
McKinney, who stressed the timeliness of action pointing out
that the Administration's crimes are ongoing.  "The time is
now for us to do it again."

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McKinney's Call to Action on Impeachment
http://www.runcynthiarun.org/Impeachment/CallToAction
http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/Impeachment/CallToAction

Text of Kucinich Impeachment Resolution
http://www.runcynthiarun.org/Impeachment/HRes1258

Recorded vote on Kucinich Motion to Refer H. Res. 1258
to House Committee on Judiciary
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll401.xml

Text of McKinney Impeachment Resolution, 109th Congress
http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com/I_text14.pdf