http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/81F741F283ED616C05257295005D022D?OpendocumentGrassroots effort under way to force impeachment of Bush and Cheney Rachel_Ganong@TimesRecord.Com
03/05/2007
BRUNSWICK — Organizers of a grassroots effort to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney before their terms end in 2009 hope that the "As Maine goes, so goes the nation" adage holds true for their plans.
About 80 people gathered from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick as part a petition drive to gather 10,000 residents' signatures in March to launch a congressional impeachment investigation, according to Brunswick resident and meeting organizer Stan Lofchie.
Petition organizers say they hope that number of signatures will motivate the Maine Legislature to vote on an impeachment investigation resolution, to be conveyed to U.S. House of Representatives and implemented by the House Judiciary Committee. About 2,500 residents have signed the petition, led by the Maine Campaign to Impeach, according to the campaign's Web site.
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As to whether her organization can achieve its goal of the president's impeachment or resignation in the next year and a half, Sweet says it's possible.
"Probably, if you talk to lead Democrats, it's not realistic at all, but leading Democrats in 1973 also weren't willing to consider impeaching Nixon, given he had just won by a landslide victory," she said, referencing the 1972 Watergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon before impeachment proceedings.
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