Orange North Confidential: Middletown council votes to impeach
June 17, 2007

President Bush and Vice President Cheney be warned, the Common Council of the City of Middletown has hereby resolved to ask some other elected officials to investigate you.
The council passed a resolution last week titled "Middletown Resolution to Investigate Charges of Impeachable Offenses Against George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney." There are nine paragraphs that detail various offenses.

For example, "Whereas George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney admitted to ordering NSA electronic surveillance of American citizens without warrants from the FISA Court of Review..."

This set off a chain of events: paper was torn, words exchanged. An alderman was disgusted, others not so much. Then everybody voted.

It passed 5-2. Aldermen John VanderVoort, R-2nd Ward, and Ray Depew, R-3rd Ward, voted against it; Aldermen Joel Sierra, D-4th Ward, and Thomas Burr, R-1st Ward, were absent.

"I cannot believe we've gotten to this point," Depew said before the vote. "I'm disgusted to be an alderman tonight." He then ripped his copy of the resolution in two.
Copies of the resolution will now go to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, state Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, D-C-Forestburgh, Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-Hurley, and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.