Too Late?

I could use all the help I can get. I suppose it is to late, but then isn't it always. It's way too late for hundreds of thousands dead, dying, wounded,hungry, homeless....etc. etc.

Berkley

June 30th, 2006 12:22 pm
Calif. City Weighs Bush-Cheney Impeachment


BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - The city of Berkeley will let voters decide whether to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

The City Council voted Tuesday night to put the advisory measure on the Nov. 7 ballot. The move is symbolic because only Congress has impeachment powers.

Some cities, including San Francisco and Oakland, have passed resolutions calling for impeachment, but supporters say Berkeley would be the first city asking voters to decide.

Only 5 percent of Berkeley voters are registered Republicans and Democrat John Kerry received more than 85 percent of the city's vote in 2004.

The measure says the administration violated the Constitution with illegal domestic spying, justified the Iraq war with fraudulent claims and illegally tortured citizens.

The city will spend $10,000 to put the measure on the ballot.

''The whole idea is to start a grass fire surging up on this issue,'' Councilwoman Dona Spring said. ''We hope other cities put this on the ballot as well. Just in the Bay Area we could get 2 or 3 million votes, which would be a very powerful statement.''

Ohio Revised Code

?§ 731.28. Ordinances and measures proposed by initiative petition.

Ordinances and other measures providing for the exercise of any powers of government granted by the constitution or delegated to any municipal corporation by the general assembly may be proposed by initiative petition. Such initiative petition must contain the signatures of not less than ten per cent of the number of electors who voted for governor at the most recent general election for the office of governor in the municipal corporation.

When a petition is filed with the city auditor or village clerk, signed by the required number of electors proposing an ordinance or other measure, such auditor or clerk shall, after ten days, transmit a certified copy of the text of the proposed ordinance or measure to the board of elections. The auditor or clerk shall transmit the petition to the board together with the certified copy of the proposed ordinance or other measure. The board shall examine all signatures on the petition to determine the number of electors of the municipal corporation who signed the petition. The board shall return the petition to the auditor or clerk within ten days after receiving it, together with a statement attesting to the number of such electors who signed the petition.

The board shall submit such proposed ordinance or measure for the approval or rejection of the electors of the municipal corporation at the next general election occurring subsequent to seventy-five days after the auditor or clerk certifies the sufficiency and validity of the initiative petition to the board of elections. No ordinance or other measure proposed by initiative petition and approved by a majority of the electors voting upon the measure in such municipal corporation shall be subject to the veto of the mayor.

As used in this section, certified copy?… means a copy containing a written statement attesting it is a true and exact reproduction of the original proposed ordinance or other measure.

HISTORY: GC ?§ 4227-1; 102 v 521; 103 v 211; 104 v 238; Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53; 125 v S 242 (Eff 1-1-54); 126 v 205 (Eff 1-1-56); 138 v H 1062 (Eff 3-23-81); 144 v H 192 (Eff 10-10-91); 146 v H 99. Eff 8-22-95.

Not EnoughTime

I am afraid that there will not be enough time to collect the signatures and get it to the board of elections before 75 days before the election.

You can work on getting something on the ballot for next November. You could collect the signatures as well and present it to Council and hope that they would take action based on the response from the residents of the Village.