McKinney Says People Must 'Flip the Script" Again, Urges Mass Mobilization Supporting Impeachment

In a prepared statement released today, six-term former Georgia Congresswoman and candidate for the 2008 Green Party Presidential Nomination urged the broad and diverse Coalition forming around her campaign to "take any and all steps necessary" to build support for action on H.Res. 1258, the Kucinich resolution to impeach President George Bush.

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, on Monday, June 9th, spent five hours on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, reading thirty-five Articles of Impeachment laying out the case that George Bush ought to be removed from office for 'high crimes and misdemeanors'. In her statement, Ms. McKinney extends her appreciation to her former colleague "for his courage and tenacity, for the comprehensiveness of his research, and for the leadership he exhibited to press forward the democratic demands of the People for accountability and justice." On the Ohio Congressman's motion, his Impeachment Resolution was then referred to the House Committee on Judiciary in a recorded 251-166 vote.

Ms. McKinney became the first Member of Congress to introduce Articles of Impeachment against the Bush Administration, naming Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice in charges which she introduced during the 109th Congress. McKinney parted ways with the Democrat Party partly for their failure to fulfill their Constitutional responsibilities, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took impeachment 'off the table'.

Ms. McKinney drew particular attention to the Kucinich Resolution's charges related to 'Tampering with Free and Fair Elections' (Article 28), 'Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965' (Article 29) and 'Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency' (Article 31). She called on "the forces of the Black movement nationwide -- whether they currently support my presidential bid or the candidacy of Senator Obama -- along with all my Green and Reconstructionist supporters, Katrina survivors and their supporters, the election protection movement, and all progressive forces, to organize a mass mobilization" to demand action from the House Judiciary to hold hearings, build an evidentiary record and send this resolution back to the Floor of the Congress for action.

"We have seen in this very election cycle how the mobilized masses, with Black America as their indispensable animating force, can 'flip the script' on the Powers That Be," wrote Ms. McKinney, who stressed the timeliness of action pointing out that the Administration's crimes are ongoing. "The time is now for us to do it again."

McKinney's Call to Action on Impeachment http://www.runcynthiarun.org/Impeachment/CallToAction
http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/Impeachment/CallToAction

Text of Kucinich Impeachment Resolution
http://www.runcynthiarun.org/Impeachment/HRes1258

Recorded vote on Kucinich Motion to Refer H. Res. 1258 to House Committee on Judiciary
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll401.xml

Text of McKinney Impeachment Resolution, 109th Congress
http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com/I_text14.pdf