Santa Cruz to ask Congress to look into impeaching Bush

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/09/06/state1822EDT0087.DTL

The city of Santa Cruz is no stranger to left-leaning political firsts and it's poised to add another as the city council looks to become the first lawmaking body in the nation to ask Congress to look into impeaching President Bush.

Santa Cruz leaders want to see Bush dumped, charging he misled the American public about the war on Iraq and ran roughshod over civil rights. The council will consider Tuesday a measure that, if passed, would give members the the go-ahead to send a letter of inquiry to Congress.

"You need to speak up when you see evil being done," said councilman Mike Rotkin, who has also previously served three terms as mayor for quirky Santa Cruz.

Rotkin insists that it is important to divulge the `truth' about the Bush administration's assertions that Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.

[Dookus]

1. yay...

this is MY town! i LOVE it here!

[Eloriel]

15. Man, I just drove through it once

and fell in love.

Eloriel

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. I guess now we can stop guessing about

where the next mega-terrorist attack will take place...

:nuke:

[bearfan454]

10. Yes

i think you're right on that. These gop evildoers do hold grudges.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

3. LOL! I love this town!

I figured our city leaders renounced Bush as president a long time ago.

But I'm equally sure that anything with a 95060 zip code on the return address gets forwarded to the trash (or maybe to the FBI) in Washington.

Mike Rotkin was one of my professors at UCSC many years ago, he's a hardy socialist and a heck of a guy.

Go Santa Cruz!

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. My only problem with this is

that it is taking them too long to do it.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

8. Ha, then you would love to see...

the holes in the ground that remain from the earthquake in 1989.
Some things happen just a little slower around here...

On the other hand, we were the first town (and the only?) to start a Jerry Garcia Grief Support Group, right after he died. :)

[General Discontent]

5. Another Santa Cruzan checking in!

I love my quirkly little town. A shout out to you other SCDU'ers!

:toast:



D Wolfman

[ParanoidPat]

6. Up the hill here in Felton!

Love ya Santa Cruz! :evilgrin:

[RevolutionStartsNow]

7. Hi guys!

Figures there are bunch of DUers in this county...

Hi from Aptos! :hi:

[Wazzup]

9. Small World

...another Aptos dweller here.

[newyawker99]

19. Hi Wazzup!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[booksenkatz]

11. Even if the place really is quirky

I think that the use of that word here seems to indicate that the idea of impeaching Bush is quirky. "Those crazy loons from Santa Cruz, get a load of what these fruitcakes wanna do now!"

[eauclaireliberal]

12. Problem:

Impeaching Too Stupid to Flip Burgers, Jr. will do nothing. There is a much bigger cabal at work here (you all know that already).

Removing Dubya will only make him the Lee Harvey Oswald of the 21st century. Removing a puppet will not change the plans of the puppetmasters.

Sorry...I didn't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but this is the truth when you think about it. If you are going to impeach W, you have to put in Cheney, Rumsfeld et al to do this right.

[sistersofmercy]

13. I agree, Rummy 1st, cheney 2nd, impeach next....

Hey love the "too stupid to flip burgers" jr, made me laugh. Thanks

[Pepper]

14. Another Santa Cruzer Here!

The best place I've ever lived :)

Hi all you locals!!!

[RevolutionStartsNow]

16. Hi!

And isn't it a beautiful day in Santa Cruz today??

The kids are back in school, tourists have gone home, waves are starting to come up...

I've lived all around the world, and I can't imagine living anywhere else but here.

[Pepper]

17. Hi Amerikav60!

It's absolutely beautiful :)

I am making sandwiches and heading out to the beach in a little bit...

I wouldn't live anywhere else!

[Dookus]

18. wow...

I didn't know we had so many Cruzers here.....

Howdy all!

[newyawker99]

20. Hi Pepper!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: