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ImpeachPAC Endorses Jean Hay Bright for Senate
For Immediate Release: May 29, 2006
For More Info: David
Swanson
Web: http://www.impeachpac.org/endorse-bright
ImpeachPAC Endorses Jean Hay Bright for U.S. Senate
from Maine ImpeachPAC, a federal PAC funding
pro-impeachment candidates for Congress, has announced its
first endorsement of a candidate for the Senate, Jean Hay
Bright of Maine, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to
challenge Republican incumbent Olympia Snowe. ImpeachPAC
has previously endorsed three candidates for the House of
Representatives, Michigan's Tony Trupiano, New York's Chris
Owens, and California's Jeeni Criscenzo. ImpeachPAC is
contributing $2,100 to Bright's campaign, and will be able
to contribute another $2,900 once the PAC has endorsed at
least five candidates. While, as a Senator, Bright will be
unable to introduce Articles of Impeachment, she has
forcefully and eloquently called for their introduction in
the House and committed to advancing Senate investigations
of the Bush Administration's crimes. "We have an
Administration seizing power it has no right to seize,"
Bright writes, "openly violating national and international
laws and the Constitution, refusing to divulge, even to
members of Congress, what it is doing. And we have a
complicit Congress sitting there with one eye closed, not
doing anything about it. "I could not believe my ears when
I heard that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said a few
weeks ago that the current impeachment talk is just a
'pointless distraction' and would be 'off the table' if the
Democrats manage to regain majority status after the
November elections.
"A pointless distraction? Every member
of Congress swears an oath to protect the Constitution. The
carefully crafted balance of powers in the three branches of
government is an essential component of that document. That
balance is severely out of whack, and the three branches are
not functioning according to their assigned tasks." Read
Bright's statement in full:
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