Not every California city is worried about job creation and fixing potholes. In Santa Cruz, the City Council has been debating a measure to ask city voters in the Nov. 7. election to say whether they think President George W. Bush should be impeached. On Tuesday, the council finally voted 4-3 against putting the question on the ballot. Here's the Santa Cruz Sentinel's report on the emotional debate on Tuesday night.
Councilman Tim Fitzmaurice pushed the impeachment measure because of the war in Iraq and wiretapping of American citizens, according to the Sentinel. But a majority of the council decided that the symbolic measure shouldn't be on the ballot. But don't even think that was because the president has some supporters on the Santa Cruz council.
The council had its say on the Bush administration. According to the Santa Cruz newspaper, a resolution was passed that said "President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney have committed high crimes and misdemeanors" and that warrants "their impeachment and removal from office."
So there you have it. Why put the impeachment question on the ballot when the City Council can speak so clearly for its citizens?
Santa Cruz has joined the list of hundreds of counties and municipalities that have symbolicly expressed outrage at what are clearly high crimes and misdemeaners.This could only be happening in a climate where the citizenry feels unrepresented in Washington DC, and frustrated w/the mainstream media's 'short term memory' problem.
Many of us feel that fraudulent elections are an important story. Although it is gut-wrenching, everyone should read Robert Kennedy jr's well researched article in rollingstone mag.detailing how the election was stolen in Ohio, (this time)..........if Dick Cheney died,who would be next in line to be president?
If the voters of Santa Cruz disagree with their council's decision, they can make their preference known at the next election, if not sooner.
It can be fun to point at the foibles the "people's republic" and similar places like Berkeley, but you've got to admit that they make the state, and the country, a little more interesting.