Vermont Towns Debate Impeaching Bush
AOL Wire Services
CALAIS, Vt. (March 7) - Packed into their 140-year-old Town Hall on a clear, frigid morning, the people of Calais -- population 1,552 -- took care of business Tuesday.
In a scene played out at Town Meetings across Vermont, supporters of the measure said Bush and Cheney misled America about the threat posed by Iraq , condoned prisoner torture and approved illegal eavesdropping of citizens, while critics defended them, calling impeachment inappropriate.
Town Meeting is a colonial-era tradition in which voters gather in town halls and gymnasiums to debate issues big and small.
At least 29 towns approved calls for impeachment investigations, according to the Rutland Herald and Times Argus and Dan DeWalt, a Newfane select board member who organized the impeachment resolution drive. Dorset and Stamford rejected the resolution, and moderators in some other towns blocked it from being considered, according to DeWalt, who barnstormed across Vermont with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan last weekend to drum up support for the measures.
At least 16 towns also approved a companion measure calling on Washington to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. It was unclear how many towns had put the resolutions to a vote, and the results of all the Town Meetings in the state of about 609,000 people may not be known for days
2007-03-07
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