[GPCA Updates] NEWS ADVISORY: Soon-to-be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi betraysvoters by not backing Bush impeachment

[Green Party of California Updates]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, December 8, 2006



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.