This is just another bullet in their gun as the RATS take shot after shot at President Bush. IMHO, they're loading up for impeachment hearings. They are really, really pissed that he is president.
Posted on 01/04/2005 5:22:17 PM PST by monkapotamus
Petitions urge Boxer to raise vote challenge
Groups hope senator will join House members who plan to question Electoral College results
By Josh Richman, STAFF WRITER
With the presidential election two months behind and Inauguration Day just 16 days away, some Northern Californians still aren't giving up the ghost.
Protesters gathered Monday at the San Francisco office of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., to deliver petitions urging her to challenge Thursday's congressional ratification of the Electoral College tally, based on alleged voting improprieties — voter intimidation and suppression, machine error, fraud and so on — in Ohio and other states.
"We expect several members of the House to call for a challenge, but without a single supporter from the Senate, Congress cannot act," said Dan Goldmacher, chairman of the Berkeley-based Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club's Voting Rights Task Force.
"This is the scenario we faced after the last election — memorialized so well in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' — when no U.S. senator stood up to support members of the Congressional Black Caucus," he said. "We can't let that happen again. As Jesse Jackson has said, 'We are not whining for a lost election, but crying out for a fair one.'"
If at least one member of each house of Congress makes a written challenge during Thursday's joint session, lawmakers will return to their respective chambers for a time-limited debate on the election results.
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., is leading the effort in the House, and he's seeking support from 29 senators, including Boxer. Boxer spokesman David Sandretti said Monday he didn't know where the senator stood on this, although he was sure she would take it under consideration, as she would any issue brought to her by any constituent.
Calls for a congressional challenge will be aired again tonight at a "Rally for the Republic" at San Francisco's Herbst Theater. It's sponsored by the Committee to ReDefeat the President, a federal PAC better known by the name of its popular ReDefeatBush.com Web site.
The event will feature a presentation by Emily Levy, reporting on her work with statistician Richard Hayes Phillips studying alleged anomalies in Ohio's election results, as well as a short film on alleged voting irregularities in Columbus, Ohio.
And as Congress convenes Thursday, Green presidential candidate David Cobb of Eureka and activist Medea Benjamin of San Francisco will be among speakers at a Washington, D.C., rally urging rejection of Ohio's electoral votes.
"Ohio's Electoral College votes are tainted by the widespread irregularities and allegations of fraud which took place both on Election Day and in the course of the flawed recount of the vote," Cobb said, adding that Congress must reject these votes "to preserve the integrity of our democratic process."
Contact Josh Richman at jrichman@angnewspapers.com.
To Barbara Boxer: "SHUT UP!"
tO jESSE jACKSON: "SHUT UP!"
TO: John Conyers: "SHUT UP !"
I just love the part when they complain that some of the voters in Ohio had to stand in the rain for 6 hours to vote, so that is why the election was not fair?!
First of all---get an umbrella, fool.
Second of all--a 6 hour line would have had to have been miles long, dang!
Third of all---I bet the people in Afghanistan and Iraq would trade places with them in a suicide bomber's heartbeat.
Get over poor pitiful selves.
Gotta start previewing before posting-
Last line= Get over YOUR poor pitiful selves!!!
PULLLLEEEEASE don't contest the results and btw PULLLLEEEEEASE don't throw me into the briar patch
What's Fahrenheit 9/11 and who is Boxer?
Ditto!
This is just another bullet in their gun as the RATS take shot after shot at President Bush. IMHO, they're loading up for impeachment hearings. They are really, really pissed that he is president.
But the democrats don't control the House . . . Unless Bush was found to be doing something really egregious, I think the dems can count on the republicans jumping aboard as much as the gop with the dems could during Clinton's impeachment. In other words, not likely to happen.
NUTS!
Yeah make Cheney President...har...impeach away.
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I'll bet they're still doing this when they're losing elections by 10, 20 points. The Democrats are irrelevant to the problems Americans face today. They're still trying to build a bridge to the 21st century, and the rest of us are already here.