AP: Democrats in Vermont to weigh impeachment

Democrats in Vermont to weigh impeachment

By David Gram, Associated Press Writer | March 28, 2006

MONTPELIER, Vt. --Leading Democrats in Vermont plan to decide in April
whether to urge state lawmakers to petition for President Bush's impeachment
using a little-known provision in the rules of the U.S. House.

Democratic committees in at least half of the state's 14 counties have passed
resolutions calling for impeachment, citing a rule in "Jefferson's Manual,"
a book of parliamentary guidelines written by Thomas Jefferson that supplements
U.S. House rules.

The anti-Bush movement is "genuinely bubbling up from the grass roots," said Jon Copans,
the state party's executive director.

The state Democratic committee is scheduled to decide the issue in a special meeting
April 8.

The resolutions accuse the Bush administration of lying about the case for war in Iraq
and illegally engaging in electronic surveillance of Americans.