Wexler to present IMPEACHMENT petition to Congress on Wednesday. Here's what we can do to help.

[garybeck]

http://www.mass-impeach.org/2008/01/14/support-wexlers-impeachment-presentation-to-congress-on-wednesday-january-16/

Last month, Congressman Robert Wexler (D – Florida, 19th) and two fellow members of the House Judiciary Committee and launched a high-profile effort to lobby other HJC members to support the Cheney Impeachment Resolution, H. Res. 799. Wexler started an online petition urging Cheney’s impeachment that so far has garnered nearly 200,000 signatures, and will be presenting his petition to Congress this Wednesday, 1/16/08.


Here’s what you can do, specifically, to join the effort:

1. Sign Congressman Wexler’s petition urging the immediate impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney, if you haven’t already done so:
http://wexlerwantshearings.com

2. Make toll-free calls to the Capitol Switchboard at 1-800-828-0498, and ask to speak to your own congressperson, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, and each of the nine Democratic members of the HJC opposed to impeachment (the “Ninny Nine,” listed below). 15 minutes is all it takes to make these calls. Congressman Jerold Nadler is the chairman of the HJC subcommittee where the Cheney impeachment resolution is currently stalled … and so right now it’s especially important to contact Mr. Nadler in every way possible, as often as possible.

3. Compose a short letter template, and fax personalized copies of it to Chairman Conyers and the “Ninny Nine” (snail-mail letters likely won’t arrive in time before 1/16/08, but are always good for follow-up). See below for a complete listing of names and full contact info.

4. Send a link to this post to as many people as possible who may be interested in spending some energy to support the cause of impeachment at this critical time.

I’ve received reports that at 11am on Monday, 1/15/08, Cindy Sheehan will be delivering between 7,000 and 10,000 pro-impeachment letters to Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco’s office. Pro-democracy activists will also be on hand at Pelosi’s office to deliver thousands of petition signatures urging Cheney’s impeachment. Your additional calls and faxes to Nancy Pelosi’s office, sent in conjunction with PDSC efforts this week (see Pelosi’s contact info, below), would have an even greater impact right now.

Finally, a call to Congressman Wexler thanking him for his principled, patriotic stand in support of impeachment is certainly called for and always greatly appreciated. Just use the toll-free Capitol Switchboard number: 1-800-828-0498.

Call or Fax The House Judiciary Committee:

Hon. Howard Berman
2221 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Hon. Frederick Boucher
2187 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Hon. Artur Davis
208 Cannon H.O.B.
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Hon. William Delahunt
2454 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Hon. Zoe Lofgren
102 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Hon. Jerrold Nadler
2334 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Hon. Linda Sanchez
1007 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Hon. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
118 Cannon H.O.B
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Hon. Adam B. Schiff
326 Cannon House Office Building
Washington D.C. 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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Chairman John Conyers, Jr.
House Judiciary Committee
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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To find your own congressional representative (on any other congressperson), click here
http://www.house.gov/

EDITED TO ADD

This post was copied from the URL at the top. To it I would like to add one more thing we could possibly do:
CONTACT CSPAN AND ASK THEM TO TELEVISE WEXLER'S PRESENTATION!

CSPAN:
Main Number: [phone]
To Suggest Events: Submit a public event that you think C-SPAN should cover - Fax us at 202-737-6226

[Mojorabbit]

1. Crossing my fingers

this will move.

[EFerrari]

2. K&R

[avaistheone1]

3. Will do!

Thanks for the heads up.

[garybeck]

4. One more thing we can do - Contact CSPAN and ask them to televise it

CONTACT CSPAN AND ASK THEM TO TELEVISE WEXLER'S PRESENTATION!

CSPAN:
Main Number: [phone]
To Suggest Events: Submit a public event that you think C-SPAN should cover - Fax us at 202-737-6226

[Kurovski]

5. K&R. (nt)

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. K&R.

[L. Coyote]

7. 188,515 - E-mail all your politico buddies too. Tell them to pass it on.

http://wexlerwantshearings.com

[avaistheone1]

8. Quit reading my mind.

[slipslidingaway]

9. From Conyers in 2006...might be good to include what he said a

year ago.

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/48/18010

"...Unless the congressman intended some sort of symbolic gesture, self-serving and harmless, what did he hope to prove or to gain? He answered the question in early January, on the phone from Detroit during the congressional winter recess.

"To take away the excuse," he said, "that we didn't know." So that two or four or ten years from now, if somebody should ask, "Where were you, Conyers, and where was the United States Congress?" when the Bush Administration declared the Constitution inoperative and revoked the license of parliamentary government, none of the company now present can plead ignorance or temporary insanity, can say that "somehow it escaped our notice" that the President was setting himself up as a supreme leader exempt from the rule of law.

A reason with which it was hard to argue but one that didn't account for the congressman's impatience. Why not wait for a showing of supportive public opinion, delay the motion to impeach until after next November's elections? Assuming that further investigation of the President's addiction to the uses of domestic espionage finds him nullifying the Fourth Amendment rights of a large number of his fellow Americans, the Democrats possibly could come up with enough votes, their own and a quorum of disenchanted Republicans, to send the man home to Texas. Conyers said:

"I don't think enough people know how much damage this administration can do to their civil liberties in a very short time. What would you have me do? Grumble and complain? Make cynical jokes? Throw up my hands and say that under the circumstances nothing can be done? At least I can muster the facts, establish a record, tell the story that ought to be front-page news."

Which turned out to be the purpose of his House Resolution 635-not a high-minded tilting at windmills but the production of a report, 182 pages, 1,022 footnotes, assembled by Conyers's staff during the six months prior to its presentation to Congress, that describes the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq as the perpetration of a crime against the American people..."

[L. Coyote]

10. 188,888

[AzDar]

11. K & R....

:kick:

[Psyop Samurai]

12. 189,185 ...k/r

[L. Coyote]

13. 189,725