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Impeach: to remove from office especially for misconduct (Websters)
ImpeachPerry.com was born, like all good grassroots efforts, from an outcry of ordinary people. Texans of all persuasions have just had enough. Gov. Rick Perry -- and his gang -- though barely holding on to Texas, are still squeezing the life out of us. And Perry, along with House Speaker Tom Craddick and his autocratic ways, has pushed Texas politics to the brink of a constitutional crisis. Do these guys really have unchecked power over the people of Texas? Following his 2006 reelection with just 39% of the vote, Perry unabashedly stated that it didn’t matter, since he gets to govern 100% of the time. For now, he’s right about that -- as long as we let him.
Independent Texans, founded in 2001, has initiated this Impeach Perry campaign. We are turning Perry’s attacks on the people of Texas in to a mobilization of the 42% (and growing) plurality of voters who do not identify with a political party and who self-identify as independent with a small “i”. We know that many Republican and Democratic voters will join our ranks to make the call to Impeach Rick Perry louder and louder as we move beyond the 2008 Presidential election and in to the 2009 legislative session where an impeachment resolution can be filed.
Why Impeach Rick Perry?
Perhaps we should really ask why not impeach “Mr. 39%”, and moreover, who wouldn’t want to. His numbers surely have plummeted since November 2006, because more and more people agree that “Governor Goodhair”, as Molly Ivans too kindly dubbed him, has been exposed for a mean spirited, arrogant and caveman style politician who will use any cheap trick, or not-so-cheap legion of attorneys, to snooker the public and his political opponents. But you gotta hand it to him. Perry never lets his popularity (or lack thereof) get in his way.
On the heels of almost losing his (and his Speaker’s) shirt in the raucous 2007 legislative session, Perry vetoed legislation that grew from a huge grassroots movement of citizens, outside the two parties for something which 97% of Texans want: to end Perry’s massive (nearly trillion dollar!) highway robbery schemes otherwise known as the Trans-Texas Corridor and the privatization and conversion of urban freeways to tollways. Then there’s a lot of other reasons Perry has given Texans to give him the boot. In fact, we give him yet another name he has earned...Mr. Veto.
Only the legislature is empowered to carry out impeachment, and yet the legislature is not required to show a specific cause. That said, we assume that the legislature will be the last to step up to the plate to impeach Perry. As well, an impeachment resolution would certainly only be filed during a regular session of the legislature (the next one is January to June of 2009), as surely the Governor would not call a special session to impeach himself. (Although, if we do our job right, Perry will soon be wishing he’d been impeached!) ImpeachPerry.com is designed to allow the people of Texas to weigh in on and to push Rick Perry’s impeachment over the next 18 months.
We hear that Gov. Perry will not just be traveling abroad. He will be traveling Texas this year. Is he running again? Is he running for a higher office? We hope you will “greet” the Governor when he’s in your neck of the woods and ask him why he shouldn’t be impeached. That might put to rest any notions the Governor has of running again for anything, other than to get on down his toll roads.
You can read more about the impeachment process under that menu item. Suffice to say here that the Governor can be impeached for any cause the legislature can make a case for. That is why we have begun a short list of some of our most favorite reasons to impeach Mr. Veto. At the end of this list, you can add your own and please do tell us all your Rick Perry stories. Just keep it clean!
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Perry Ally Targets
State Rep. Mike Krusee (R-Round Rock), who chairs the Texas House Transportation Committee, and was Rick Perry's bag man for the Trans-Texas Corridor and freeway tolling scams, was our number one target for defeat in 2008. But...he wisely decided not to run again!
Now, we're looking at other Perry buddies to defeat in November 2008. Do you know someone who is running in a competitive race in November for Texas House or Senate? We don't care what they're party affiliation is, nor political ideology. We just want to know the answer to these three questions:
- Will they support the call for a Congressional investigation into Rick Perry's push for the Trans-Texas Corridor?
- Will they support Texans' right to statewide initiative and referendum? (If Texans, like citizens in 24 other states, had the right to petition for a statewide vote of the people, we could have voted the Corridor and freeway toll scams down, and we could have won the right to recall Rick Perry!)
- Will they support a call for impeachment proceedings against Gov. Rick Perry?
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