TEXAS Impeachment Resolution Introduced (Along With Missouri, Makes EIGHT States Now!)

[Hissyspit]

This in addition to my Missouri post earlier: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=534087&mesg_id=534087

Almost 1/6th of state legislatures have had impeachment resolutions introduced. Both Missouri and Texas are Republican-dominated, but this is still important, if only at the very least on a symbolic level.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/29/113716/891

State-initiated impeachment reaches Missouri and... Texas.
by Kagro X
Thu Mar 29, 2007 at 12:02:55 PM PDT
First it was California, Illinois, and Vermont. Then Minnesota. And then New Mexico and Washington.

Now it's Missouri and Texas: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/html/HC00154I.htm

Yes, Missouri and Texas.

Hat tips and deep bows of gratitude to Missouri State Rep. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis), and Texas State Rep. Lon Burnam (D-Ft. Worth) for telling it like it is. Chances of passage? Not much. Both state legislatures are dominated by Republicans.

Not that having a state legislature dominated by Democrats is any help in the matter, though. Up in Vermont, where 35+ Town Meetings adopted impeachment resolutions, and the State Democratic Party recently adopted its second such resolution in two years (this one specifically directing the Dems of the state legislature to act), House Speaker Gaye Symington continues to sit on the resolution, despite its endorsement by Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin.

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UPDATE: I've just heard from someone who tells me that this bill in Missouri was essentially the result of simple, straightforward e-mail contact with a sympathetic state legislator. The draft resolution came from impeachbush.tv, and all it took was an email explaining why it was important to submit such a bill, even against such long odds. Two weeks later, it was done.

[kimmerspixelated]

1. Ya-hoo! Go Tejas!

My Home state!

[ClassWarrior]

5. .

[The Cleaner]

2. Good for Burnam - but no chance in hell TX will send up an impeachment resolution.

n/t

[Hissyspit]

3. .

[ClassWarrior]

4. It's getting easier to Visualize It every day...

:patriot: Tejas.

NGU.

[porphyrian]

6. That's gotta sting a bit. - n/t

[CrazyOrangeCat]

7. Rockinest thang to come out of Misery . . .

. . . since Mark Twain.

Go Mizzou!

[WiseButAngrySara]

8. Go Texas! ....n/t

[Canuckistanian]

9. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been hearing this for years.

First it's New Mexico(?). Then Vermont. Then Maine.

Now, recently, Missouri and TX.

Tommorrow, Alabama. Followed closely by Utah.

Exactly when do any of these state-level resolutions rise to the House level?

Sorry for the skepticism, but we've been down this path before.

[Hissyspit]

10. It won't reach the House. That's not the point.

The point is eight states have now had impeachment resolutions submitted. And this is TEXAS, the pResident's "home state."

The rest of the country is trying to tell our national leaders something.

[Canuckistanian]

11. I beg to differ

In the House there are various methods of setting an impeachment in motion: by charges made on the floor on the responsibility of a Member or Delegate; by charges preferred by a memorial, which is usually referred to a committee for examination; by a resolution dropped in the hopper by a Member and referred to a committee; by a message from the President; by charges transmitted from the legislature of a State or territory or from a grand jury; or from facts developed and reported by an investigating committee of the House. < House Rules Manual, section 603>

I see nothing that permits states convening their own legal impeachment hearings.

The House owns the impeachment initiation process.

[mopinko]

12. just fyi- illinois resolution is dead

sent to rules, and died with the legislative session. no word of it's return this session.

[loudsue]

13. What is really astonishing to me is that there seems to be so much

TALK about it. States didn't act like this over Clinton OR Nixon! In fact, I've never heard of so many state legislatures ever bringing up anything like this. Even though the vast majority of state legislatures would shy away from actually PASSING such legislation, just the fact that bush's crimes are known so far & wide as to even get these resolutions INTRODUCED by elected state officials (who have to face the voters), is just....WOW!

I just keep wishing that ALL the dirty deeds will come to light, and the people will rise up and DEMAND changes in government that will make corruption much more difficult, if not impossible, to get away with.

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