Some Democrats are heading to their party’s convention in Worcester today to support their guy for governor or take part in a good old-fashioned partisan pep rally. Delegate Anthony Palmer of Hudson is going to try to impeach the president.
Palmer hopes the thousands of Democratic delegates will vote on a resolution he crafted calling for the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Palmer, vice chairman of the Hudson Democratic Town Committee, said he takes issue with the GOP duo for, among other things, their handling of the war in Iraq.
Palmer needs 50 delegates to sign on the resolution by noon today for it to be voted on by all the delegates in the afternoon. He said he had 27 signatures yesterday afternoon, before he ventured to the DCU Center in Worcester for the kickoff of the Democratic State Convention last night, where he was confident he would snag the remaining signatures. "I have no doubt in my mind that it will pass," said Palmer, 74, who teaches music for Boston University.
Palmer said he wants Bush and Cheney out now and does not want to wait until their terms expire in 2009, saying he fears Bush could order a nuclear attack on Iran. "I’m kind of a progressive Democrat and I’m really upset that the Democratic party has not stood up to this person in the White House," Palmer said.
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Brookline’s Town Meeting on Tuesday passed a resolution calling for the state’s congressional delegation to impeach Bush. Cambridge and other communities around the county have backed similar measures.
Democratic delegates passed a similar symbolic resolution at last year’s state convention in Lowell calling for ending the "occupation of Iraq."
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