Monday, June 16th, 2008

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McKinney Says People Must ‘Flip the Script» Again Urges Mass
Mobilization Supporting Impeachment

In a prepared statement released today, six-term former Georgia
Congresswoman and candidate for the 2008 Green Party Presidential
Nomination urged the broad and diverse Coalition forming around her
campaign to «take any and all steps necessary» to build support for
action on H.Res. 1258, the Kucinich resolution to impeach President
George Bush.

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, on Monday, June 9th, spent five
hours on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, reading
thirty-five Articles of Impeachment laying out the case that George
Bush ought to be removed from office for ‘high crimes and
misdemeanors’. In her statement, Ms. McKinney extends her
appreciation to her former colleague «for his courage and tenacity,
for the comprehensiveness of his research, and for the leadership he
exhibited to press forward the democratic demands of the People for
accountability and justice.» On the Ohio Congressman’s motion, his
Impeachment Resolution was then referred to the House Committee on
Judiciary in a recorded 251-166 vote.

Ms. McKinney became the first Member of Congress to introduce Articles
of Impeachment against the Bush Administration, naming Bush, Vice
President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice in
charges which she introduced during the 109th Congress. McKinney
parted ways with the Democrat Party partly for their failure to
fulfill their Constitutional responsibilities, when House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi took impeachment ‘off the table’.

Ms. McKinney drew particular attention to the Kucinich Resolution’s
charges related to ‘Tampering with Free and Fair Elections’ (Article
28), ‘Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965’ (Article
29) and ‘Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of
Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency’ (Article
31). She called on «the forces of the Black movement nationwide —
whether they currently support my presidential bid or the candidacy of
Senator Obama — along with all my Green and Reconstructionist
supporters, Katrina survivors and their supporters, the election
protection movement, and all progressive forces, to organize a mass
mobilization» to demand action from the House Judiciary to hold
hearings, build an evidentiary record and send this resolution back to
the Floor of the Congress for action.

«We have seen in this very election cycle how the mobilized masses,
with Black America as their indispensable animating force, can ‘flip
the script’ on the Powers That Be,» wrote Ms. McKinney, who stressed
the timeliness of action pointing out that the Administration’s crimes
are ongoing. «The time is now for us to do it again.»

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McKinney’s Call to Action on Impeachment
http://www.runcynthiarun.org/Impeachment/CallToAction
http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/Impeachment/CallToAction

Text of Kucinich Impeachment Resolution
http://www.runcynthiarun.org/Impeachment/HRes1258

Recorded vote on Kucinich Motion to Refer H. Res. 1258
to House Committee on Judiciary
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll401.xml

Text of McKinney Impeachment Resolution, 109th Congress
http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com/I_text14.pdf