{"id":387,"date":"2007-03-02T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2017-06-17T14:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T20:19:39","slug":"salt-lak-city-mayor-calls-for-impeachment-before-washinton-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/salt-lak-city-mayor-calls-for-impeachment-before-washinton-state-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lake City Mayor calls for Impeachment before Washington State Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/rocky_reception1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/rocky_reception.thumbnail1.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Statement of Ross C. &#8220;Rocky&#8221; Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City<br \/>\nBefore the Washington State Senate<br \/>\nGovernmental Operations Committee<br \/>\nMarch 1, 2007<\/p>\n<p>I am honored to address you today and am pleased that you, unlike so many members of Congress and most state legislatures, have recognized your solemn responsibility to examine whether proceedings should be commenced for the impeachment of the President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Never before has there been such a compelling case for impeachment and removal from office of the president of the United States for heinous human rights violations, breaches of trust, abuses of power injurious to the nation, war crimes, misleading Congress and the American people about threats to our nation&#8217;s security and the supposed case for war, and grave violations of treaties, the Constitution, and domestic statutory law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100427005803\/http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org:80\/node\/19147\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script language=\"javascript\">var MyShoutItURL = \"http:\/\/www.shoutwire.com\/comments\/55451\";<\/script><script <img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/MyShoutIt.js\" language=\"javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement of Ross C. &#8220;Rocky&#8221; Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City Before the Washington State Senate Governmental Operations Committee March 1, 2007 I am honored to address you today and am pleased that you, unlike so many members of Congress and most state legislatures, have recognized your solemn responsibility to examine whether proceedings should be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,4,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-news","category-utah","category-washington"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Salt Lake City Mayor calls for Impeachment before Washington State Senate &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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