It's official, NM legislator introduces legislation to call for impeachment

[Warpy]

and removal of Stupid:

Legislator seeks Bush impeachment

SANTA FE -- The 60-session of the state Legislature convenes today with the agenda including cockfighting, water, minimum wages and a call for the impeachment of President Bush and his vice president.

Sixty days also allows lawmakers more opportunity to present pet projects and platforms like the resolution asking congress to begin investigation and impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

The author, Sen. Gerald Ortiz Y Pino, D-Albuquerque, said he's been getting calls and e-mails.

“Personal messages from people who said, ‘Wow, I'm glad you're doing it; it's something we should be doing.” Ortiz Y Pino said. “This particularly built up after the president's speech last week when people began feeling like this guy is not listening to anything going on in the country.”

http://www.krqe.com/expanded.asp?ID=19257

There you have it, MSM confirmation of what's been on blogs for ages.

That doesn't mean it'll pass, of course.

[fooj]

1. Right on!

[havocmom]

2. Thanks for posting, warpy

It's a warning shot across the bow of the errant SS Neocon.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Hooray for NM!

Is there a chance this can be passed?

[demnan]

4. We should be trying to do this in every state in the Union

I've just joined a committee here in Virginia in the 11th Congressional District to ask for impeachment.

[SoFlaJet]

5. I just E-mailed him-in support

Senator: Gerald Ortiz y Pino
District: 12
County(s): Bernalillo
Senator Since: 2005
Party: Democrat
Occupation: Social Worker
Address: 400 12th Street NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Capitol Office Phone: [phone]
Office Phone: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

[BayCityProgressive]

6. What is the possiblility of this passing??

[Peace Patriot]

7. What is the "possibility" of peace on earth any time soon? What was the

"possibility" of ending slavery? Was was the "possibility" of women ever having the right to vote?

Sometimes you put "possibilities" aside and think big. This is one of those times. The "possibility" thinkers have always been a drag on the great progressive movements in human history.

This could be the fire that ignites American Revolution II. Why don't you say that? Go for it, Mr. Ortiz y Pino! We're with you! This is the RIGHT THING TO DO. And we're going to help you make this an idea whose time has come.

You're thinking like an insurance broker. Start thinking like Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine and Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela and Eugene Debs and Rosa Parks! How to spark the revolution, not how to hose it down.

I understand strategic, realistic planning, based on tough-minded truth. But, when you have 70% to 80% of the American people wanting a war ended, and a defiant, out-of-control president escalating it instead, and someone ACTS to stop him, you really must put aside "the possibilities," and work for the success of that action (or devise you own). For Mr. Ortiz y Pino, the planning stage is over. HE, and those helping him, have already looked at "the possibilities." Now is the time to rally behind them, and put maximum pressure on other NM legislators, and to support similar measures in our own states.

[A Simple Game]

11. That's quite some attitude you have there Peace Patriot.

There is something about your outlook on life... that is just so...

so... RIGHT.

Good attitude thanks for the post, loved it.

[snappyturtle]

12. Thanks! We should all do this......I will right now. K&R n/t

[Eurobabe]

8. At least it's a start! Go New Mexico!

[Patchuli]

9. Yay! I just got the pleasure

of being the fifth vote for greatest page.

KICKED & RECOMMENDED!! :kick:

[Peace Patriot]

10. Here's the background on state legislature impeachment of Bush...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0604/S00294.htm

Illinois State Assemblywoman Karen Yarlborough last April discovered the provision of Jefferson's Rulers that clearly permits a state legislature to submit Articles of Impeachment to the US House, as a privileged resolution, requiring the US House to stop all business and consider it. She submitted such a resolution to the Illinois legislature last April. Vermont had meanwhile passed a mere letter to the US House calling for impeachment, but this is now being revised for submission to the US House as an impeachment resolution, under Jefferson's Rules. Other states with activity on this are California, Minnesota and Maryland. It only takes one state legislature to begin the process of impeachment in the US House. (In the case of a state bicameral legislature, it likely takes both state lawmaking bodies to submit to the US House.) But it would, of course, be best to have several, or many--or all!

Jefferson's Rules are the official rules of Congress. There is no greater authority on how impeachment can be started. (These Rules also permit a grand jury to submit Articles of Impeachment.) I believe that one and only one member of Congress is needed to accept the resolution from the state legislature(s), and get the ball rolling. And I read somewhere the other day--can't recall (maybe re NM)--that somebody had already volunteered.