IMPEACHMENT is "ON THE TABLE" in LOS ANGELES

Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles joined the Westside and Los Angeles Greens and the Santa Monica Democratic Club to open the first national impeachment center on the 4th of July using this day to demand that Congress hold Bush and Cheney accountable.

The Los Angeles Impeachment Center is at the Peace Center near the Beverly Center  at 8124 W. Third St. just west of Crescent Hts...a familiar location to anti-war activists. It was opened to coordinate and bring together all the various groups who have become enraged by the destruction of our constitution and the lies that took us into the ongoing war in Iraq.

The small room used for the inaugural ceremony and opening of the center was bursting with television crews, radio reporters, as well as the Los Angeles Times.

Press conference speakers included Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who has just become a sponsor on Congressman Dennis Kucinich's HR333 bill to impeach Cheney, former Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, and former congressional candidate Byron De Lear. All spoke later at the picnic in La Cienega Park where they were joined on the podium by former Assemblyman Paul Koretz, Shakeel Syed (Exec Dir of Islamic Shura Council, S.CA), Anthony St. Martin (pledgetoimpeach.org), and Ricco Ross (PDLA member and delegate in CA's 42nd AD).

Koretz was author of AJR39 introduced into the CA State Assembly in '06 to impeach both Bush and Cheney. It died in the rules committee at the end of the last session, Koretz was termed out, and no assembly member is now willing to re-author and introduce the bill. All those approached have stated that Speaker Fabian Nunez doesn't want the bill introduced, thus leading to the inevitable conclusion that he does NOT support impeachment.

Link to the Los Angeles Times story by Howard Blume:

http://www.latimes.com/...

The website for the Los Angeles Impeachment Center is: bcimpeach.com

Peter Thottam, the executive director of the center, plans to meet with activists at the center every Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. and is currently circulating petitions to be used in lobbying our elected officials who are not responding to their constituents' demands.

Thottam reports that web hits to his site have increased by 2000% after the event Wednesday!!!

•  Fantastic!

  It is sweet and fitting to impeach for one's country.

  Tell everyone you know about Iraq Moratorium Day!
  

  by chesapeake on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 01:05:14 PM PDT

•  Impeach!

  Thanks for this diary.

  I did a bit of tweeking on your tags.  I added first names for Bush & Cheney - added the W to distinguish 43 from his dad.

  I added the tag h. res. 333-110 - if you select that tag you'll find over thirty diaries that refer to the impeachment effort in the House.  There are probably oodles of diaires to which that tag should be added.

  Original tags:

  Los Angeles Impeachment Center, impeachment, Bush, Cheney, Maxine Waters, Paul Koretz, Fabian Nunez, Peter Thottam, Anthony St. Martin, bcimpeach.com, PCLA, Progressive Democrats of America

  New & improved tags:

  h. res. 333-110, Los Angeles Impeachment Center, impeachment, Geore W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Maxine Waters, Paul Koretz, Fabian Nunez, Peter Thottam, Anthony St. Martin, bcimpeach.com, PCLA, Progressive Democrats of America

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  peace
  
  

  by peace voter on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 01:06:56 PM PDT

  •  tag should have been PDLA

    by tenayaca on Tue Jul 10, 2007 at 10:20:08 PM PDT

•  Cheney first...

  by CTDemoFarmer on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 01:22:58 PM PDT

•  I.-I.-I.-I.!!! Invoke, Impeach, Indict, Imprison!

  I.-I.-I.-I.!!!  Invoke, Impeach, Indict, Imprison

  INVOKE: articles of impeachment against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

  IMPEACH: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors.

  INDICT: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for the commission of criminal acts.

  IMPRISON: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for crimes against humanity for THE REST OF THEIR LIVES!!!

  IT'S THE PATRIOTIC THING TO DO!!!

  by Linda Milazzo on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 01:54:54 PM PDT

  •  Henry Waxman still not on board with 333

    Waxman is constantly doing these wonderful investigations and hearings, but to what end?
    IMPEACHMENT is a natural outcome of all that he's found, so what is his problem?

    by tenayaca on Tue Jul 10, 2007 at 10:22:15 PM PDT

•  Great stuff!

  by Free Paris Hilton on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 02:15:01 PM PDT

•  We Have At Least Two L.A. Area Reps

  on the house judiciary panel. Sherman and Schiff. I've been calling Sherman telling him he would be a hero if he put impeachment on the table. Rasmussen has a poll out that shows the historic nature of Bush's unpopularity. Biggest chunk of any approval rating on a 4 point scale is "Strongly Disapprove", hovering around 50%. If Bush doesn't get impeached, just delete the clause from the constitution.

  by HL Mungo on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 02:16:04 PM PDT

  •  Berman makes three!

    N. Hollywood and Van Nuys, etc. should be lighting up the switchboard in D.C. and in local offices to tell Rep. Howard Berman it is time to impeach! Berman is also on the house judiciary committee, and I have a little bit of proff that some of the people living and transacting business in his district are on board with impeachment:

    Penthouse pet Sasha Grey modeling the PDA impeachment sticker in a Hollywood bar:

    

    by ImpeccableLiberalCredentials on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 03:02:43 PM PDT

    •  What Sasha Said!

      If "babes with impeachment tattoos" became a porn sub-genre, I would visit them more than the double-d midget sites that I usually go to.

      by HL Mungo on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 03:14:20 PM PDT

      •  Bwahahaha n/t

        by FLDemJax on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 05:00:10 PM PDT

  •  What has Brad been using for an excuse?

    It is INCOMPREHENSIBLE to me that these California Democrats are so spineless that they will not step up to the plate and save our democracy.

    by tenayaca on Tue Jul 10, 2007 at 10:24:35 PM PDT

•  yo Tenayaca! congratulations!

  Hi from Oakland CA; congratulations, you beat us to it!  The righties won't be able to blame this on "San Francisco values."  

  Best wishes, and may Cheney go first (so Congress will get to vett his replacement).

  Hey here's a suggestion for a fundraiser.  Get a couple of oldschool prison uniforms, the ones with black & white stripes, in the correct clothing sizes for Cheney, Bush, and Gonzales, and auction 'em off.  (You can probably get these from companies that sell theatrical costumes.)  

  by G2geek on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 02:28:54 PM PDT

•  Thanks for the update!

  I first heard about this yesterday, half an hour before everything was going to start.  I read the article in the LA Times this morning on the I-Center and I was so proud to be an Angeleno!

  by fabooj on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 03:28:27 PM PDT

  •  On a side note

    One thing I did notice was that the location of the of the Impeachment Center is the old Kucinich headquarters.  I used to live near the area.  One day in early '04, walking with my family from our Hollywood apt., we wound up on 3rd street in front of the bldg.  There was a guy out there registering people to vote, getting them to sign petitions and trying to raise Kucinich's profile.  Unfortunately, he couldn't pronounce Kucinich, so most of the crowd around him was just mocking him.

    by fabooj on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 03:31:27 PM PDT

•  Good on you! Sign of life! Proud of LA! (nt)

  by wardlow on Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 03:34:25 PM PDT