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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 Obttuaries MARTHA COOPER SCARBROUGH Martha Cooper Scarbrough, 71, of Marietta, died Dec. 5. A memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Mayes Ward-Dobbins Funeral Home Chapel in Marietta with Rev’s Sam Storey Sr., and Tom Davis officiating. Born in Perry, Scarbrough married her husband in 1955. She came to Cobb County in 1959. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Marietta since 1960 and a member of Woodbine Garden Club. She is survived by her husband, D. Ellis Scarbrough of Marietta; one daughter, Linda Hayes and husband, Gary, of Fayetteville; two sons, Wayne Scarbrough and wife, Kim, Clint Scarbrough and wife, Larisa, both of Powder Springs; one sister, Joanne Davis of Marietta; five grandchildren, Zachary Hayes, Heather Hayes, Kailey Scarbrough, Cooper Scarbrough, Parker Scarbrough; several nieces and neph ews. Donations may be made to any Bank of America Branch or online@http://cotaforcourtneyhp.com for a double lung transplant for an 8-year-old, Courtney Hickman, who was born with Cystic Fibrosis. The family will receive friends 4-6 p.m., Wednesday, prior to the service at the funeral home. JESSE C. HARRELL WARNER ROBINS - Jesse C. Harrell, 80, passed away Saturday. Services will be held at 11 a.m. today at First Baptist Church in Centerville with interment following in Centerville Cemetery. He was preceded in death by his par ents, two children, and nine brothers and sisters. 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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 Open your own Wall Street Checking account today. • Get a FREE Gift! • We'll pay you $lO for unused checks from your account at your old bank. Annua? fVrtmtagc T*!d SATO «4f«ctrw \ * saw change afte ope**** ‘okev and njgulaf(«>sapp»r mu reduce earwigs Ask , and former county com missioner who campaigned 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. ■■ HniuHnaH w shop * i twoday .• Saveßso° /o Wednesday & Thursday, December 13 & 14 50% OFF OUTERWEAR FOR HIM By North Bay", Pacific Trail'. Claiborne. Reg. 65 00-150.00. 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