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City Council Strongly Backs Bid to Impeach Bush, Cheney
Lisa Moscatiello helped create a resolution that calls for removing the president and vice president from office.
(By Susan Biddle -- The Washington Post)
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She helped organize a meeting with state Sen. Jamie B. Raskin, a professor at American University who represents Montgomery County. The Democratic lawmaker told the group of about 40 people not to worry about convincing Congress, but instead to move large groups of people and Congress would follow, Moscatiello said.
Moscatiello, who has lived in Takoma Park since 1988, collected petition signatures outside the Takoma Metro station and at the town's farmers market, and she went door-to-door.
As she talked to people, one thing frustrated her: While some said they strongly disapproved of Bush's actions, they questioned Moscatiello's strategy. These people wanted to avoid doing anything that Republicans could take advantage of in 2008.
"This is not very politically sophisticated," a gray-haired man told her at the farmers market.
In Vermont, Moscatiello said to herself, people probably have an easier time making decisions based simply on what they think is right or wrong.
For all of Takoma Park's liberal bona fides, the city is somewhat late to the locally based impeachment-drive movement. As of yesterday, 81 towns, cities or counties had passed an impeachment resolution, according to the Web site impeachpac.org.
It's a list heavily represented by locales in Vermont. Also on the list: San Francisco, Detroit and Berkeley, Calif. Asked to look through the list, Moscatiello saw real progress.
There are entries "not among the usual suspects," she noted. "Chapel Hill [N.C.]. It's in the South. Whatley, Massachusetts, that's a rural town in the middle of Massachusetts, far from Cambridge. Telluride, Colorado, a lot of Republicans vacation there."
The Takoma Park resolution isn't timid. A small portion of it:
"WHEREAS, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney conspired with others to defraud the United States of America by intentionally misleading Congress and the public . . .
"Our senators and representatives in the United States Congress be, and they are hereby, requested to cause to be instituted in the Congress for the investigation . . . that they may be impeached and removed from office."
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