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Santa Rosa, CA City votes for impeachment tonight!

By city council meeting attendee  Posted by Kathryn Smith (about the submitter)       (Page 1 of 1 pages)   3 comments
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THIS IS GREAT! PLEASE ASK YOUR LOCAL CITY TO PASS SUCH AN IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION, AND YOUR COUNTY SUPERVISORS TOO! APPLAUSE, CHEERS AND POPPING CHAMPAGNE CORKS TO SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA!

 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 02:29:00 -0800 (PST)
> To:

> Subject: the people win, the Constitution wins
>
> Tonight the City Council of Santa Rosa failed to remain silent; they
> failed to close their eyes to the outside world. Tonight, near midnight,
> after discussing where to save huge sums in the annual budget, after
> considering green building practices and campaign finance reform, they
> took up a resolution that called upon the House of Representatives to
> Impeach Bush and Cheney. Two thousand residents in this city of 160,000
> had signed a petition calling on them to enact this resolution. Two
> hundred residents showed up for the hearing and a hundred, still there at
> midnight, erupted in joy as the council members individually stated their
> reasons for acting. Tonight in a 5-1-1 vote, the City of Santa Rosa
> through their council said enough to the tyranny of this Bush-Cheney
> administration.
>
> Tonight Santa Rosa, the seat of Sonoma County government, the county of
> Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and Congressman Mike Thompson, sent a petition
> to the House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against
> Bush and Cheney. Tonight the City Council of Santa Rosa took a stand
> against the destruction of our representative form of government, took a
> stand for the rule of law, for defending our Constitution. They took
> seriously their oath of office and the expressions of concern that Santa
> Rosans regarding the harm that the Bush-Cheney administration is having on
> our persons our city, our nation, and our world.
> Santa Rosa
> 12-5-2007 2 AM

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This quote summarizes the nature of my concerns and the content of personal experiences which stir my activism: "Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves". --Paul (more...)
 
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