Constituent members of the Silicon Valley Impeachment Coalition (SVIC) gathered at the Campbell office of Representative Mike Honda (D-15) on October 22, 2007 to present an SVIC ad in the Mountain View Voice to Mike Honda.
In the ad the SVIC demands an answer to whether Dick Cheney has committed impeachable offenses.
We also presented the following letter.
Silicon Valley Impeachment Coalition
PO Box 390601
Mountain View, CA 94039-0311
22 October 2007
Congressperson Mike Honda
1999 South Bascom Ave
Suite 815
Campbell, CA 95008
Re: District 15 constituents demand answers regarding executive wrongdoing, as stated on page 3 of The Mountain View Voice, Volume 15 No. 41.
Dear Congressperson Honda:
Despite our repeated questions, appeals and demands, you have not answered whether or not you think or believe that Vice President Cheney has committed impeachable offenses.
Nor have you answered whether or not you think or believe that Vice President Cheney continues to commit impeachable offenses.
As far as we know, you have not answered these questions in any public speech, printed publication, e-mail communication, website posting or other media accessible to your constituents.
You also did not adequately address our questions, appeals and demands that we expressed at your recent Town Halls held in the 15th District.
Your constituents have a right to know your position on these important questions as these questions involve and pertain to serious issues of constitutional right. Our privacy, our security from unwarranted surveillance, our right to trial, our right to habeas corpus and numerous other constitutional protections are involved.
The Silicon Valley Impeachment Coalition (SVIC), on behalf of District 15 constituents, demands your answers to the questions published in the ad on page 3 of The Mountain View Voice, Volume 15 No. 41. We also demand an explanation of your answers.
The published demand in The Voice is enclosed with this letter.
We look forward to your reply published in The Mountain View Voice.
On behalf of your District 15 constituents and other Bay Area residents,
SVIC members
This is a very strong approach toward Representatives. Don’t go for all of it – demanding to cosign H. Res. 333 – but insist that they answer the question as to whether Cheney alone has committed impeachable offenses. The rest follows very logically and rationally. If yes, then the cosigning of 333 is the obvious next step in honoring his or her oath of office. If no, then the list of acceptable offenses to the Representative clarifies their complicity.
Great approach.