Land of Enchantment and Impeachment

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Land of Enchantment and Impeachment
Monday, 15 January 2007, 10:11 am
Opinion: David Swanson

Land of Enchantment and Impeachment

By David Swanson
There is a decent chance that within the next month or two the New Mexico State Legislature will ask the U.S. House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney. And there is the definite possibility that a Congress Member from New Mexico will take up the matter when it gets to Washington. The Jefferson Manual, rules used by the U.S. House, allows for impeachment to be begun in this manner. It only takes one state legislature. No governor is needed. One Congress Member, from the same state or any other, is needed to essentially acknowledge receipt of the state's petition. Then impeachment begins.

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We should be encouraging our Congress Members to proceed immediately with key investigations < http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/investigations > and to not be afraid to use subpoenas. We should also be encouraging state legislators in our own and other states who take up the cause of democracy. We need them to do so from their positions as elected officials closer to the people and further from the big dollars.

In New Mexico, a leading light of that state's politics, State Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino of Albuquerque, will be leading the way on impeachment. He deserves the support of all the world, and you can thank him at [e-mail] or 505-986-4380. Let's help him make New Mexico the land of enchantment and impeachment.