I was pleasantly surprised to find this in my email this morning:
Maine Congressman Mike Michaud calls for impeachment hearings!!
On December 21, Maine Congressman Michael Michaud sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers requesting that the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begin impeachment hearings of Vice President Cheney.
This is a very big development and one of the reasons 15,000 of us signed the MaineImpeach petition.
Mainers have been pushing our two Congressman to support impeachment of Dick Cheney and George W Bush for months now and it is great that our efforts have begun to pay off.
You can call Mike Michaud to say thanks at one of the following numbers:
Rep. Michaud's Lewiston office - 207- 782-3704
Rep. Michaud's Bangor office - 207- 942-6935
Rep. Michaud's DC offce - 202-225-6306
If you are in Maine, or even if you're not, please call Congressman Tom Allen's office and ask him to support impeachment as well. Mainers have already sent him petitions, rallied in Portland and gone to his office to voice their concerns, but so far Allen has refused to support impeachment even though he has admitted that he believes the Bush administration has committed impeachable offenses.
But he is currently trailing in the polls for his Senate run against Susan Collins. The last one I saw had him down 20 points. Michaud and Collins are both from the Northern part of Maine which tends to be more rural and conservative. Michaud's seat is not in jeopardy, and if he is supporting impeachment in the conservative part of the state, Tom Allen should be in no danger by doing so either. It could be just the thing to separate him in the voter's minds from the Bush-enabling Susan Collins.
You can call Tom Allen at:
Portland Office - 207-774-5019
DC Office- 202-225-6116
And if you haven't seen Congressman Wexler's efforts to start impeachmnet investigations, you can add your name to his petition here. 179,000 citizens so far and counting.
Keep the pressure on and throw the bums out!