[NYTr] 100,000 Impeachment Petitions Arrive at Congress Today

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100,000 Petitions Arrive at Congress

Contact: 
David Swanson 202-329-7847, 
Jonathan Schwarz 301 928 7579 

Congressman Dennis Kucinich To Receive More Than 100,000 Petitions From
Supporters Seeking Impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney

Thursday, August 2, 2007

HC-8 in the U.S. Capitol

10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Congressman Kucinich will receive petitions from people throughout the
country who support impeaching Vice President Dick Cheney. 

Kucinich introduced H. Res. 333, which proposes articles of impeachment
against the Vice President on April 24, 2007.

Petition signatures in support of impeaching Vice President Cheney have
been collected at http://www.impeachcheney.org by a coalition that
includes Brave New Films, A28, AfterDowningStreet, Backbone Campaign,
True Majority, Iraq Veterans Against the War, BuzzFlash, Democracy
Rising, Democrats.com, Grass Roots America, Hip Hop Caucus,
ImpeachBush.tv, Impeach for Peace, Impeach Space, The Nation, National
Lawyers Guild, OpEdNews, The People's Email Network, Progressive
Democrats of America, Code Pink, United for Peace and Justice, Velvet
Revolution, World Can't Wait.  The coalition will present Congressman
Kucinich with 113,000 signatures, plus additional petition signatures
from some individual groups.

Working Assets, the only wireless company fighting to impeach Vice
President Dick Cheney, has collected over 50,000 of its members'
signatures to submit to their Congressional representatives calling for
his impeachment.  True Majority has collected 49,000 signatures.
Democrats.com and AfterDowningStreet have collected an additional
28,000 signatures in support of impeaching the Vice President.  And
Impeach for Peace has brought together thousands of hand-written
memorials, in accordance with the rules of the Jefferson Manual, from
individuals around the country urging the impeachment of Dick Cheney.  

Representatives from several of these organizations will take part in
Thursday's event.

There are currently 16 co-sponsors of H.Res. 333: Rep. Tammy Baldwin
(D-WI), Rep. Robert Brady (D-PA), Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Rep.
William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Rep. Sam Farr
(D-CA), Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA), Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), Rep. Barbara
Lee (D-CA), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), Rep.
Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rep. Maxine Waters
(D-CA), Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), and Rep. Al Wynn (D-MD).