{"id":4842,"date":"2008-02-16T13:57:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T19:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2017-05-21T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T21:12:47","slug":"press-release-milwaukee-impeachment-event-5-pm-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/press-release-milwaukee-impeachment-event-5-pm-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Impeachment Committee Event at 5 p.m. today"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PRESS RELEASE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

At 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 16, 2008, the Milwaukee Impeachment Committee (MIC) will hold a press conference at the main entrance of the Midwest Airlines Center , 400 W. Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee .<\/span> <\/span>The purpose of this event is to remind the Democratic presidential candidates of their oaths to defend the Constitution, which includes holding President Bush and Vice-President Cheney accountable for their abuse of executive powers. We will distribute copies of George McGovern’s statement in favor of impeachment to press members and the public, and we will be available to answer questions from the press.<\/p>\n

The February 16th event is part of MIC’s continuing pressure to hold Congress accountable to its duty to the Constitution. <\/span>Congress should pursue the accountability of elected officials, and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as members of Congress should include this issue in their campaigns and in the national Democratic platform. <\/span>We, the voters, want the Democratic candidates to follow the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s six 2007 resolutions calling for impeachment. <\/span>We, the voters, want the Democratic candidates to follow the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s six 2007 resolutions calling for impeachment. Wisconsin is an appropriate state to make this demand: in 2006.<\/span> <\/span>Our state Democratic Party was the first to include the impeachment of Bush and Cheney in its platform. <\/span>Since then, two of our Democratic Representatives, Tammy <\/p>\n

Baldwin (WI-02) and Gwen Moore (WI-04), have signed H.Res.333 calling for Cheney’s impeachment and Rep. Wexler’s letter calling for impeachment hearings by the House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n

MIC calls for impeachment on numerous grounds, four of the most obvious being:<\/p>\n