[Peace-discuss] Champaign-Urbana Votes to Withdraw from Iraq and Impeach Bush-Cheney

[Brian Dolinar]

Would anybody like to write
an election wrap-up for the Public i?
A victory letter for local referenda?

And good work to all those on the campaign.

Peace, BD

On 11/8/06, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Time to gloat - publicly.  We need letters to the
> editor, WILL commentaries, letters to Tim Johnson
> (many people who voted for him also CLEARLY voted to
> bring the troops home - we need to push him on this)!
>
> Anti-war referenda won all over the country last
> night, usually by wide margins.  And as Bob points
> out, impeachment won in Champaign-Urbana, too,
> overall.
>
> >From select wire reports:
>
> All 10 Wisconsin cities including Milwaukee that voted
> on referendums asking whether the United States should
> pull troops from Iraq approved them.  With 97 percent
> of Milwaukee precincts reporting, there were 108,154
> votes to bring home the troops, or 72 percent,
> compared to 42,627 voting no, or 28 percent.
>
> Cook County voters want troops withdrawn from Iraq,
> assault weapons banned and the minimum wage boosted
> from $6.50 an hour to $7.50.   The three countywide
> non-binding referendum questions Tuesday were all
> leading by at least 8-to-1 margins in the city with
> three quarters of votes in. Suburban margins were only
> slightly lower.
>
> About half of Michigan voters said in exit polls that
> the war was very or extremely important to their
> Senate vote, and a majority disapproved of the war in
> Iraq and favored withdrawing at least some troops.
> Stabenow received most anti-war votes.
>
> The Washington Post is reporting: Democrats worried
> for months about the last-minute political bombshells
> Karl Rove might drop, but the October surprise of 2006
> may have come from Iraq.  October was the U.S.
> military's deadliest month in Iraq in nearly two
> years, and as Democrats cruised to victory in the
> House last night, early returns and exit polls
> suggested that the unpopularity of the war -- along
> with the president who started it -- was a major
> factor. The election was much more than a referendum
> on the war, but bad news from Baghdad gave Democrats a
> powerful argument for change, and a metaphor for a
> "rubber-stamp Congress" that wants to "stay the
> course" in America as well as Iraq.  Last night,
> preliminary exit polls suggested that 57 percent of
> the electorate disapproved of the war, about the same
> amount that disapproved of President Bush's job
> performance. Only 34 percent believed the war has
> improved America's security, down from 46 percent in
> 2004. The more importance a voter attached to the war,
> the more likely he or she was to vote Democratic, and
> the antiwar vote was almost exclusively Democratic.
>
>
> --- Robert Naiman  <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > [please forward where appropriate]
> >
> > Champaign-Urbana Votes to Withdraw from Iraq and
> > Impeach Bush-Cheney
> >
> > Final results from the Champaign County Clerk's
> > office, 100% of
> > precincts reporting:
> >
> > Withdraw US Troops from Iraq ("orderly and rapid"):
> >
> >                      Yes      No
> > Champaign     9888    7104
> >                      58%      42%
> >
> > Urbana                   5729    3029
> >                      65%      35%
> >
> > Champaign-Urbana
> >                    Yes        No
> >                  15618        10134
> >                    61%        39%
> >
> > Impeach Bush/Cheney for War, Torture, Illegal
> > Surveillance:
> >
> >                      Yes      No
> > Champaign     7877    9140
> >                      46%      54%
> >
> > Urbana                   5171   3614
> >                     59%       41%
> >
> > Champaign-Urbana
> >                   13049       12755
> >                  50.6%        49.4%
> >
> > Governor should resist deployment of Illinois
> > National Guard to Iraq:
> >
> >                    Yes        No
> > Urbana:               4812    3154
> >                    60%        40%
> >
> > In many Republican precincts in Champaign - as
> > judged by the vote in
> > the Secretary of State's race - the majority voted
> > in favor of
> > withdrawal from Iraq. In 32 of Champaign's 38
> > precincts and in 22 of
> > Urbana's 23 precincts a majority voted in favor of
> > withdrawal.
> >
> > As we were tallying the votes at the County
> > building, Republican Rep.
> > Tim Johnson gave a press conference on his victory
> > in the
> > Congressional election. He acknowledged that the US
> > position in Iraq
> > was a "quagmire" and that Americans would not
> > tolerate the status quo
> > for another two years.
> >
> > In the spring the Urbana City Council passed a
> > resolution in favor of
> > withdrawal. At the time, peace activists claimed
> > that the council was
> > reflecting majority sentiment in Urbana.
> > This completes the argument.
> >
> > Thanks to everyone who worked to give people in
> > Champaign-Urbana the
> > opportunity to vote on these questions and who
> > worked to publicize
> > these initiatives.
> >
> > -Robert Naiman
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Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
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