Impeach Bush, California

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California

Contacts

If you are interested in working on impeachment referendums in California please contact us, or contact these groups near you:

BCImpeach.com - Los Angeles National Impeachment Center
pdsonoma.org - Progressive Democrats of Sonoma County
justiceforbush.com - Santa Barbara Impeachment Coalition
impeachbush-cheney.com - in the Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco area

Upcoming Events

12/4/07 - Santa Rosa City Council will vote on an Impeachment resolution. After 4 PM at 100 Santa Rosa Ave. For more details visit pdsonoma.org

Current Status

AJR39 died when the 2006 legislature adjourned. Activists are contacting state legislators and trying to introduce a new impeachment resolution for 2007.

News

12/4/07 - Santa Rosa City Council passed a resolution 5-1-1 calling on Congress to investigate and impeach Bush and Cheney. Over a hundred residents turned out in support. Several of the council members said that they were initially reluctant to vote for the measure. But they did some reading on their own and were moved support the measure.[PressDemocrat]

10/9/07 - Rohnert Park City Council in Sonoma County said they could not pass a resolution urging Congress to impeach because only Congress has the power to Impeach.... Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to us either. Read more...

11/7/06 - San Francisco, CA passed an impeachment measure by a 59.4% majority. Berkeley, CA passed theirs by a 68.9% majority.

10/24/06 - Santa Barbara Impeachment Coalition asked their City Council for an Impeachment Resolution. A video of the comments is available here.

8/8/06 - San Francisco placed an Impeach Bush advisory measure on the November ballot. [ADS]

7/19/06 - Santa Barbara Impeachment Coalition is working on a city council resolution. They are starting with Teach-In on July 19, followed by Town Hall on Aug. 15.

7/13/06 - Santa Cruz residents working on a November ballot initiative. [Sentinel]

7/5/06 - Town Council of Fairfax unanimously passes resolution to impeach Bush and Cheney. A new group is working in Marin County to have other towns pass similar resolutions.

6/27/06 - Berkeley City Council votes to place an Impeach Bush advisory measure on the November ballot. The measure is expected to pass in this city where only 5% of the registered voters are Republican. Berkeley has a reputation for being in the forefront with issues like abolishing apartheid that eventually become widely accepted across America. [CBS] [SFGate] [Text of Ballot Measure]

Berkeley Impeachment Ballot Measure Information Page

5/19/06 - The five-member City Council of Sebastopol unanimously passed an impeachment resolution criticizing Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for their handling of national security issues. [PressDemocrat]

5/16/06 - Lobbyist are asking CA state legislators to support Paul Koretz's impeachment resolution, AJR39. You can ask your club to send this letter of support.

4/29/06 - CA Democratic party adopts an impeachment proclamation at its state convention in Sacramento.

4/29/06 - Bush Impeachment Forum in Sacramento, CA Filled to Capacity

4/27/06 - The Castro Valley Democratic Club passed a resolution at our April 25th monthly general member meeting to "endorse Assemblyman Paul Koretz (D-Los Angeles) amended Assembly Joint Resolution No.39 calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheny and to urge our elected officials to endorse and work for the passage of AJR39."
The 4/22/06 press release from Assemblyman Paul Koretz office was read at the Castro Valley Democratic Club meeting and the resolution passed unanimously to sustained applause.

4/25/06 - The Berkeley City Council at its Tuesday meeting passed a resolution calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. The council unanimously approved the resolution and also took a step toward giving residents a voice. The Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission will give a recommendation about whether the city should ask voters for their opinion in an advisory ballot measure.That came about as result of Constitution Summer, a national grass-roots law student coalition that is pushing for ballot measures to build momentum for impeachment.

4/21/06 - California Assemblyman Paul Koretz Submits Impeachment Resolution

California State Assemblyman Paul Koretz (D-Los Angeles) submitted amendments on Friday, April 21, to Assembly Joint Resolution No. 39, calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney. The resolution references Section 603 of Jefferson’s Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives, which allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature.

The resolution bases the call for impeachment upon the Bush Administration intentionally misleading the Congress and the American people regarding the threat from Iraq in order to justify an unnecessary war that has cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives and casualties; exceeding constitutional authority to wage war by invading Iraq; exceeding constitutional authority by Federalizing the National Guard; conspiring to torture prisoners in violation of the “Federal Torture Act” and indicating intent to continue such actions; spying on American citizens in violation of the 1978 Foreign Agency Surveillance Act; leaking and covering up the leak of the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson, and holding American citizens without charge or trial.