September 27, 2006
Nevada City Rejects Impeachment
By Josh Singer
Nevada City City Council voted 3-2 Monday night to reject a resolution urging the impeachment of the nation’s president and vice president.
Local residents packed City Hall, many of them to express their support of the resolution, although opinions were mixed. One of the main issues of contention was whether presidential impeachment fell under the purview of city government.
Monday’s vote was among the first contentious ones in a council that saw two incumbents replaced by Barbara Coffman and Sheila Stein in the June election.
Similar resolutions have been passed in 22 other cities, such as Berkeley, Fairfield, Arcada and other parts of the nation, according to Americans for Constitutional Integrity, the group that brought the resolution before the council.
According to Robert Lobell of ACI, “Chronic and substantial incompetence is a legitimate basis for initiating an impeachment investigation.” He cited privatization of forests for logging and mining, depletion of the National Guard and a likely poor response from FEMA during a disaster as local reasons for impeachment.
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