<title>Impeach WI News</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="largetext.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">  <table id="Table_01" width="739" height="4448" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">  <tr> <td width="199" height="4448" align="left" valign="top"> <a href="http://www.impeachwi.com/"><img src="images/impeachwihome5_01.gif" alt="" width="199" height="199" border="0"></a> <img src="images/impeachwihome5_05.gif" alt="" width="199" height="25" align="top"> <p class="largetext"><a href="http://www.madison.com/communities/madveteransforpeace/" target="_blank">Madison Veterans for Peace </a><a href="http://www.danedems.org/" target="_blank">Democratic Party of Dane County</a></p> <a href="mailto:impeachwi.com"><img src="images/impeachwihome5_10.gif" alt="" width="199" height="25" border="0" align="top"></a> <a href="http://www.impeachwi.com/status.htm"><img src="images/status.gif" alt="" width="199" height="25" border="0" align="top"></a> <img src="images/impeachwihome5_16.gif" alt="" width="199" height="25" align="top"> <a href="mailto:impeachwi.com"><img src="images/impeachwihome5_17.gif" alt="" width="199" height="25" border="0" align="top"></a> <a href="links.htm"><img src="images/impeachwihome5_18.gif" alt="" width="199" height="25" border="0" align="top"></a> <a href="mailto:impeachwi.com"><img src="images/impeachwihome5_19.gif" alt="" width="199" height="27" border="0" align="top"></a> <table width="199" height="1357" border="0"> <tr> <td height="1353" bordercolor="#006600" bgcolor="#006600"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="540" align="left" valign="top"> <table width="518" height="1796" border="0">  <tr> <td width="534" height="1792" valign="top" class="tablepadding"> <p class="orangehead">NEWS<br> Impeachment Investigation Referendum Question<br> May Be On November Ballot in WI Rapids<br> September 13, 2006<br> <a href="http://www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060916/WRT0101/609160480&located=FLASH">Read the article in the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune</a></p> <p class="largetext">On November 7th WI Rapids citizens may be able to vote whether they think impeachment investigations should be started against President Bush and Vice President Cheney. They would be joining nearly 1 million other citizens across the U.S. who will be voting that day on impeachment.</p> <p class="largetext">Monday, September 11, 2006, the Wood County Impeachment Coalition turned in nearly 950 signatures of Rapids citizens asking the city to place an impeachment investigation referendum on the November 7th ballot. The referendum states: "Resolved: The U.S. House of Representatives should start an impeachment investigation against President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney now.” Voters will then vote yes or no to adopt the resolution. “If adopted, it will be sent to the WI Congressional delegation, the Congressional leadership and to the president and vice president,” said Robert Hoch, petition drive leader.</p> <p class="largetext">City Clerk Vernon Borth has reviewed the names and determined the petition is valid with more than the 896 signatures required by state law. If the referendum issue is placed on the Tuesday, September 19th, city council agenda, the council can either vote to endorse the resolution or place the resolution on the November ballot as a referendum.</p> <p class="largetext">Hoch explained, “In our letter to the city we asked the council to not vote on the resolution. The citizens who signed the petition want voters to have the right to vote on the issue. So we asked the council to place the referendum question on the ballot.” If the council takes action Tuesday, the impeachment referendum will be on the November ballot. If the decision is delayed, then the referendum would be delayed until the spring election unless the council calls a special meeting.</p> <p class="largetext">William Dolan of WI Rapids helped collect many of the signatures over the past 6 weeks. He said, “When we went door to door, about half the people were not home. Of those we spoke with half or more signed the petition. Some of those who didn’t sign the petition said they don’t know enough about politics, were fearful of repercussions or are supporters of President Bush. Most people know within about 10 or 15 seconds whether they want to sign.”</p> <p class="largetext">Pittsville, WI a city of about 900 people was the first WI city to put the impeachment investigation referendum on the ballot. The Wood County Impeachment Coalition completed that petition drive a number of weeks ago.</p> <p class="largetext">Buzz Davis, of Stoughton, WI, Co-Chair of the WI Impeachment/Bring Our Troops Home Coalition, said, “If Rapids places the impeachment question on the November ballot, it will join at least five other communities in voting whether the impeachment process should be started against the president. Over 1 million people, minus the kids, will be eligible to vote on impeachment in San Francisco and Berkeley, California, Champaign and Urbana, Illinois and Pittsville and WI Rapids. This will be the largest vote for or against impeachment in our nation’s history.”</p> <p class="largetext">Davis explained that people feel the Middle East wars and the impeachment issue are crises which candidates and the public should be discussing this election season. “But many politicians are scared of such discussions. By placing these referendum questions on the ballots, citizens can voice their views on the most important issues our nation faces. Politicians and the public across WI and the nation will be watching what nearly 1 million people have to say on impeachment.”</p> <p class="largetext">Coalition leader Hoch said, “We need to live under the rule of law. Illegal wars of aggression, torture and wiretapping of Americans are serious violations of international law, our laws and our Constitution.” The Coalition is planning to conduct a public information campaign between now and the election to help voters think through the impeachment issue.</p> <p class="largetext">Municipalities With Impeachment Referendums on the November 7th Ballot</p> <p class="largetext">San Francisco, CA 777,000 population & 421,000 registered voters<br> Cunningham Township which contains Urbana, IL 37,000<br> Champaign City, IL Township 68,000 <br> Berkeley, CA 103,000 & 74,836 registered voters<br> Pittsville, WI 900<br> Sub-total of Population: Est. 986,000<br> WI Rapids +18,000<br> Total Est. Population 1,004,000 population less youth under 18</p> <p class="orangehead"> Great NEWS: <br> <span class="largetext">Marty Preston and her friends in Lake Delton collected 107 signatures for their troops home petition drive as of last Thurs. Marty turn the lists into the city clerk and the issue will soon come before the city council. When it does Marty said she will ask the council to NOT take a vote on the resolution itself but instead place the resolution on the Nov. ballot.<br> <br> Bravo for citizens efforts to change the way America is doing it political business.<br> <br> AND THANK YOU MS MARTY PRESTON FOR HAVING THE COURAGE TO PUT ACTION BEHIND CONVICTION!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br> <br> Wauwatosa Campaign Achieves Goal<br> Referendum to Bring the Troops Home </p> <p class="orangehead">Congratulations!</p> <p class="largetext">i<span class="largetext">n Wauwatosa this November. </span></p> <p class="largetext">Congratulations also to Racine, Glendale, Fox Point, Milwaukee and South Milwaukee - all of whom have succeeded in getting referendums on their November ballot. </p> <p class="largetext">Thank you to all of our tremendous volunteers ! Your hard work and dedication has been most inspiring.</p> <p class="largetext">We still need to make sure we have at least 10-15% over the required number, in case some are disqualified. Be sure to turn in any petition sheets at the library.</p> <p class="largetext">If you haven't signed the petition already, please come to the Tosa public library and do so before it's too late - and send your friends and neighbors there, too. We'll be collecting petitions and signatures up until 4pm Tuesday, August 1st.</p> <p class="largetext">Thank you for your support, <br> <br> <span class="orangehead"><br> </span><strong><font color="#008000"><u><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.impeachwi.com/status.htm">OUR STATUS SO FAR</a></font></u></font></strong><span class="orangehead"></span> </p></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table>  </body> </html> <script></script><noscript><img src=http://www.impeachwi.com/cgi-bin/sitestats.gif?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.impeachwi.com%2Fnews.htm;r=-;t=1425; width=1 height=1></noscript>