Roxbury, Other VT Towns, To Wrestle With Impeachment (PHOTO of Woman's Iraq U.S. Dead Tally)

[Hissyspit]

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Claire Chomentowski of Roxbury tallies the number of U.S. war dead on a chalkboard on the front of her house. The number is now 3,164. On Town Meeting Day, she hopes voters will approve a resolution calling for Congress to consider impeaching President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Roxbury, other Vt. towns, to wrestle with impeachment question

Published: Saturday, March 3, 2007
By Sam Hemingway
Free Press Staff Writer

ROXBURY -- Claire Chomentowski was so upset the day President Bush was re-elected in 2004 that she decided to put up a chalkboard on the front of her home and use it to keep running track of the American soldier death toll in Iraq.

"It helped assuage my grief, I guess," said Chomentowski, who says she detests the war as much as she does Bush. "I think when I first put it up, people in town did not understand what I was doing. They thought it was just a number." They know what the number means now, she says. Tuesday, she hopes enough of them support a Town Meeting Day resolution calling for Congress to consider impeaching Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

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If Roxbury and a large number of other towns in the state support the impeachment drive next week, statewide organizers of the initiative think the message from Vermont could elevate discussion of impeachment to the national stage. "There's a real possibility Vermont can get the nation's attention focused on impeachment," said Dan DeWalt, a Newfane selectman who persuaded his town to back impeachment last year and now is leader of the statewide impeachment push. "We might be able to influence the course of the country."

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[Senator]

1. Keep that ground swelling folks

Impeachment is the only productive avenue for change.

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[DrRang]

2. Impeachment bill is still advancing through New Mexico legislature.

A big question is whether it will get any time for action in the remaining two weeks, with thousands of bills in the hopper.

[Hissyspit]

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[UTUSN]

4. What's to "wrestle," Roxbury??!!1 GO for it!!1 n/t