After Downing Street, Andrea Miller — I joined the impeachment rally yesterday at Bobby Scott’s office; it was excellent and there were about 15 people. Everyone at the rally went upstairs to Bobby Scott’s office and Chris Dorsey spoke eloquently about the need for impeachment and how the Cheney/Bush impeachment has nothing to do with partisanship. Most notably we had the Ron Paul Virginia coordinator with us (though the office did not know about this affiliation). Allan added that we are recruiting new blood for Congress that will support impeachment as the will of the people. He told the staffer that there are new candidates in the 8th, 1st and 10th; I added that I was running in the 4th.

I think this double-tack may help to have an impact. As new people step up to run, this should encourage the old guard to carefully consider where they stand with their constiuency and are they out of touch. Bobby Scott’s office is in a predominantly African-American neighborhood and we got honks for impeachment from everyone driving by including police and fire folks driving official vehicles.

I think we need to now have the “suits” approach Bobby Scott as well as the extreme activists. We need to show support in the movement from all walks of life (in short everybody that votes for Bobby Scott — or the new candidate that more closely reflects their political goals and ideals.)