Dan DeWalt is "a fourth generation cabinetmaker" and a selectman in the Vermont town of Newfane. On March 6, 2006, due to his and others' efforts, the Newfane town meeting considered, and then passed, 121 to 29,
Article 29 on its "warning" agenda, which stated:
"ARTICLE 29: We the voters of Newfane would like Town Meeting, March 2006, to consider the following resolution:
Whereas George W. Bush has:
1. Misled the nation about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction;
2. Misled the nation about ties between Iraq and Al Quaeda;
3. Used these falsehoods to lead our nation into war unsupported by international law;
4. Not told the truth about American policy with respect to the use of torture; and
5. Has directed the government to engage in domestic spying, in direct contravention of U.S. law.
Therefore, the voters of the town of Newfane ask that our representative to the U.S. House of Representatives file articles of impeachment to remove him from office."
Selectman DeWalt was the subject of a March 24, 2006, article about this campaign in the
Vermont Guardian entitled
"Impeach! The shot heard ‘round the world," which begins by reporting:
"NEWFANE — As patriots go, Dan DeWalt looks the part. With his ponytail and winter beard, a pair of breeches and a musket would put him right into character in 1775.
"But it was no act earlier this month when DeWalt fired the opening salvo of his revolution. Only this time, the shot heard ’round the world came not from a rebel in Massachusetts but from a selectman in Vermont. And rather than start a shooting war, it was meant to put a stop to one."
The
Impeachment Channel spoke yesterday with Selectman DeWalt about current efforts in Vermont to bring up and pass resolutions calling for impeachment of George W. Bush at more than 20 of this year's town meetings in the state and to use the momentum from this grass-roots effort to pass a similar resolution in the Vermont State Legislature.
You can listen to that conversation by clicking on the appropriate button in the Impeachment Channel, below.
