13 State Democratic Parties Demand Impeachment

May 19, 2007
13 State Democratic Parties Demand Impeachment

Thirteen state Democratic parties have now passed resolutions demanding impeachment, nine of them since Nancy Pelosi ordered the Democratic Party away from impeachment.

"Whereas George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have:

• Deliberately misled the nation about the threat from Iraq in order to justify a war;
• Condoned the torture of prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention & US law;
• Approved illegal electronic surveillance of American citizens without a warrant."

The majority of these resolutions have never been reported in the media. Therefore, this list is almost certainly incomplete. So are the following tallies:

• Cities and towns that have backed impeachment by resolution, public vote, or both: 79.
  
• Largest cities: Detroit, home of the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and San Francisco, home of the Speaker of the House.
  
• Earliest and most frequent city: Santa Cruz beginning in 2003.
  
• States where impeachment has been introduced into the legislature at least once: 10 (California, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, Vermont).
  
• State legislative bodies that have voted on impeachment: 3 (Vermont Senate, Vermont House, New Mexico Senate).
  
• State legislative bodies that have passed impeachment resolutions: 1 (Vermont Senate).
  
• National political parties backing impeachment: 1 (Green).
  
• Non-Democratic state political parties backing impeachment: 2 (Vermont Progressives, California Greens).
  
• Democrats Abroad Chapters backing impeachment: 1.
  
• Local political party organizations that have backed impeachment: 32.
  
• Labor unions backing impeachment: 1.
  
• Page listing all these resolutions: http://impeachpac.org/resolutions-list
  
• How to make corrections or additions to the list: http://afterdowningstreet.org/listadditions
  
• Organization helping promote Democratic Party resolutions, including those recently passed in Massachusetts and California: http://pdamerica.org
  
• Articles of impeachment introduced against Bush: 3 (by Rep. Cynthia McKinney).
  
• Articles of impeachment introduced against Cheney: 3 (by Congressman Dennis Kucinich, H Res. 333, http://www.impeachcheney.org ).
  
• Impeachment Resource Center: http://afterdowningstreet.org/resourcecenter