

[UPDATED 12:34AM, THU, FEB 7TH]

ImpeachforPeace.org

by Mikael Rudolph – IFP cofounder

With record turnout last night to the DFL (Democratic Farmer-Labor) Party precinct caucuses all over the Twin Cities, impeachment resolutions passed in a number of areas. In my precinct in Senate District 62, Precinct 11/7, the small group that remained until the end of a long night voted narrowly to pass my very strongly worded resolution in support of efforts to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.

Barrack Obama won our highly progressive and very involved precinct’s support 355-120 over Hillary Clinton and went on to resoundingly win Minnesota’s delegates as well. Last caucus 170 people voted in total so this represents a huge increase in voter participation.



I received a phone call from Tom Lobello this morning who reported that his similar impeachment resolution, taken directly from our website, had passed resoundingly by voice vote in SD 58, Precinct 4/6 in ‘Nordeast’ Minneapolis.



Impeach for Peace cofounder Jodin Morey had similar success at his St. Paul caucus, stating:



“Mine passed (ST. PAUL W-3 P-12). I don’t have an exact count, but it was about 70-4!!!

I also had a friend in MINNEAPOLIS W-13 P-03 who indicated their impeachment resolution passed. Another friend reported a UNANIMOUS passing of an impeachment resolution in ST. PAUL W-4 P-16.”

Kristin Rafferty checked in from another area of St. Paul with good news as well:

“I had the resolution from your website all printed up and ready to go. All I had to read was “Resolution to Impeach Richard B. Cheney” and before I began to read anything more, the whole room loudly voted in favor. One man in the room said, “How about indictment?” The guy running the meeting pointed out that he remembered me bringing forward that same resolution at one of the last caucuses I attended.”

It turns out that Ms. Rafferty had introduced an impeachment resolution four years ago that had also been unanimously passed.

From Soren Sorenson:

“Mine passed in SD 61 Precinct 6-4, I saw it submitted in Precinct 6-5 as well, and expect someone took it to precinct 6-3. I doorknocked and talked impeachment in Comstock Hall yesterday, and I hope students took the resolution to caucus at Coffman Union. Another friend who attended my pre-caucus feed was going to caucus at Wiley Hall, so that should equal multiple submission sites in SD 59.

My mom took one to SD 40 Precinct 1-10 (Bloomington) and it was amended during debate to also include the impeachment of President Bush and it passed.

I had hundreds of website hits from around the state, and I e-mailed out the link to where the resolution could be downloaded to people across the state in every congressional district.

I am on the pre-convention resolutions committee for SD 61.”

“Mikael, this is Delia Jurek reporting from Center City MN. After spirited discussion we PASSED!!! an impeachment resolution, unanimously, which I authored. I am also a delegate, hoping to spur it forward. Center City is in the 8th Congressional District, Senate District 17, legislative Dist. 17B,precinct 15. I was WOWed. I am calling Oberstar, my representative, today to tell him of this and ask him to support Kucinich and Wexler work to get this before the judiciary. See you in DFL convention. Thanks for your work.Power to the People!! ”

Another one found online:

“Minneapolis, MN:

She said there had been a motion submitted and passed to impeach Bush (merely symbolic, but inspiring), as well as one for restrooms for the Airport Taxi employees (“Let ’em piss!” cheered one supporter).”

This page will be updated as others report in. Please e-mail me at: [email protected] if you have any news of how impeachment resolutions fared around Minnesota and around the rest of the country.

This from Colorado:

“Being a recent transplant to Colorado, not only had I never caucused before but I had never even lived in a state that held caucuses before, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. Nevertheless things went pretty smoothly overall, given the circumstance of a turnout that was a little too much for the location to handle.

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After the presidential vote there were a few other items of business, but most people didn’t stick around for that, nor did I after a certain point. The interesting thing about this part is that you can vote on party resolutions, which are just basically statements that are supposed to influence the policy positions of the democratic party in your district, and on up the chain, etc. You can introduce resolutions there at that time, but there are also ones that are already prepared. I wasn’t prepared for this, and thus didn’t introduce anything. But, this seems like a good opportunity for introducing a resolution on separation of church and state, which is something that I will keep in mind for the future. The obligatory “Impeach Bush and Cheney” resolution came up, which got resounding cheers, 100% support, and a few chants of “send ’em to prison”.”

http://secularvoters.org/blogs/announcements/archive/2008/02/06/super-tuesday-caucusing-experience.aspx