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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
McKinney proposes bill to impeach Bush
By BEN EVANS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - In
what could be her final leg
islative act in Congress, out
going Georgia Rep. Cynthia
McKinney introduced a bill
Friday to impeach President
Bush.
The legislation has
no chance of passing
and serves as a symbolic
parting shot not only at
President Bush but also at
Democratic Party leaders.
Incoming House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has
made clear that she will not
entertain proposals to sanc
tion Bush and has warned
the liberal wing of her party
against making political hay
of impeachment.
McKinney, who drew
national headlines this
spring when she struck a
Capitol police officer, has
long insisted that Bush was
never legitimately elected.
In unveiling her legisla
tion in the final hours of
the current Congress, she
said Bush had violated his
oath of office to defend
the Constitution and the
nation’s laws.
The legislation says
Bush misled Congress into
approving the war in Iraq
and violated the law with
secret surveillance practic
es. The bill also calls for
the impeachment of Vice
President Dick Cheney
and Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice.
“With a heavy heart and
in the deepest spirit of patri
otism, I exercise my duty
and responsibility to speak
truthfully about what is
before us,” McKinney said
Friday night.
“To shy away from this
responsibility would be eas
ier, but I have not been one
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Martha Cooper Scarbrough, 71, of Marietta, died Dec. 5.
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Baptist Church in Centerville with interment following in
Centerville Cemetery. He was preceded in death by his par
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include his wife, two sons, one daughter, one sister, six
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to travel the easy road.”
Since Democratic voters
ousted her from office in
the party primary this sum
mer, McKinney has made
no secret of her frustration
with Democratic leaders. In
a speech Monday at George
Washington University in
Washington, she blasted
the party hierarchy, accus
ing leaders of kowtowing to
Republicans on the war in
Iraq and on military mis
treatment of prisoners.
“We’re being told by them
to wait on ending the war,
wait on torture, wait on
civil liberties, wait on learn
ing the truth about Sept.
11,” she said, speaking to
more than 100 people at a
panel discussion on stop
ping the Bush agenda. “We
know that the world can’t
wait.”
McKinney also this week
quietly introduced a bill
that would deny federal
funding to law enforcement
agencies “whose officers
use excessive force or vio
lence” and that don’t have
transparent procedures
for investigating officers
accused of brutality.
The bill is her response
to the police shooting
last month of 92-year-old
Atlanta resident Kathryn
Johnston, who was killed
in her home as she fired
on a group of plainclothes
police officers who, with a
warrant, knocked down her
door searching for drugs.
Like the impeach
ment bill, the police bill
is largely a symbolic ges
ture. Lawmakers are slated
to adjourn this week, and
McKinney won’t be return
ing when the new Congress
is sworn in on Jan. 4.
She lost her seat in the
Democratic primary to
Hank Johnson, a lawyer
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as a moderate consensus
builder.
McKinney, who has not
discussed her future plans,
has increasingly embraced
her image as a controversial
figure. Along the way, her
relations with Democratic
leaders have grown frayed.
She has hosted numerous
panels on Sept. 11 conspir
acy theories and suggested
that President Bush had
prior knowledge of the ter
rorist attacks but kept quiet
about it to allow friends to
profit from the aftermath.
She introduced legislation
to establish a permanent
collection of rapper Tupac
Shakur’s recordings at the
National Archives and call
ing for a federal investiga
tion into his murder.
But it was her scuffle
with a Capitol police officer
in March that drew most
attention. McKinney struck
the officer when he tried
to stop her from entering a
congressional office build
ing. The officer did not rec
ognize McKinney, who was
not wearing her member
lapel pin.
Agrandjury in Washington
declined to indict McKinney
over the clash, but she even
tually apologized before the
House.
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State Busts
OeKalb fined more
than $200,000
DECATUR (AP) - The
state has issued a fine
against DeKalb County
that is among the largest
in Georgia for spilling sew
age into rivers and streams
more than 200 times.
The $265,875 fine also
came with an 18-page con
sent order that blames an
aging sewer system but
also cites human errors and
repeated violations of state
regulations.
Bill Noell, a manager with
the Georgia Environmental
Protection Division’s com
pliance unit, said investiga
tors found enough violations
to raise a red flag.
“There were just things we
saw that makes you wonder
how big a problem is that?”
Noell said. “We’re finding
incidents. It doesn’t mean
it’s rampant, but it caused
concern.”
Noell said the number of
spills reported by DeKalb
County rose last year, mak
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