www.ImpeachforPeace.org

by Mikael Rudolph – IFP cofounder

Updated 5:15 p.m. Central Time Feb. 25th



A spokesperson in Minnesota Representative and House Judiciary Committee member Keith Ellison’s office confirmed today that Representative Ellison has added his name to Florida Representative Robert Wexler’s letter calling for the HJC to immediately commence impeachment hearings investigating Vice President Richard B. Cheney for possible impeachable offenses.



Wexler has also gathered over 230,000 online citizen signatures in support of Cheney’s impeachment at: www.WexlerWantsHearings.com.



Ellison spearheaded an effort to initiate impeachment proceedings while he was a state legislator in Minnesota and was an early cosigner onto H. Res. 333 (now 799) authored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and has continued to consistently support efforts to impeach the Vice President and President George W. Bush.



A list found on Wexler’s campaign website: www.WexlerforCongress.com just added Ellison’s name and lists three other members of the HJC as signatories, Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) along with Rep. Wexler. Ellison’s signing means that five of the twenty two Democrats on the committee have cosigned Wexler’s letter.

Three other HJC members signed onto H. Res. 333: Hency ‘Hank’ Johnson (D-GA), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) last year and one more, Anthony Weiner (D-NY), has publicly stated that he will sign Wexler’s letter which brings a total of nine HJC members publicly favoring impeachment and thirteen not yet in support.



HJC Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and powerful member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) were impeachment advocates but have changed positions in the new congress, seemingly heeding the call of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to keep impeachment “off the table”.



Here is the list from Wexler’s site with Ellison’s name added:

(*= member of the Judiciary Committee)

Abercrombie, Neil, HI, 1st

Baldwin, Tammy, WI, 2nd *

Capuano, Michael E., MA, 8th

Clarke, Yvette D., NY, 11th

Clay, Wm. Lacy, MO, 1st

Cohen, Steve, TN, 9th *

DeFazio, Peter, OR, 4th

Ellison, Keith, MN, 5th *

Farr, Sam, CA, 17th

Grijalva, RaÃºl M., AZ, 7th

Gutierrez, Luis V., IL, 4th *

Kucinich, Dennis J., OH, 10th

Lee, Barbara, CA, 9th

Moore, Gwen, WI, 4th

Moran, James P., VA, 8th

Thompson, Mike, CA, 1st

Towns, Edolphus, NY, 10th

Woolsey, Lynn, CA, 6th

Wexler, Robert, FL, 19th *

Wynn, Albert Russell, MD, 4th