[Peace-discuss] P S WCIA posts petition re resignation of Mayor Schweighart

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Hi Folks,This just in (hilarious!) on the subject of Gerald Schweighart, our (I hope) soon-to-be-voted-out-of-office Champaign mayor. (The links to WCIA's- and the original video posted on YouTube and the online petition are 'way
 below.  --Jenifer

http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/04/16/ok-maybe-it-wasnt-about-the-booze/

There's now a Facebook page asking Schweighart to produce his birth certificate (and there's a fake Kenyan birth certificate posted for him that mimics the fake Obama Kenyan birth certificate that right-wingers made up).

At
 least the comments at the link above are kind of interesting and funny. At a lot of places, the comments have been dominated by tea-partiers and Schweighart defenders.
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/politics-and-government/2010-04-16/mayor-defends-youtube-comments-county-board-member-calls-res                                                                                                                                  
    
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                        A link to the story that amazingly appeared on WCIA, our local CBS station http://illinoishomepage.net/fulltext/?nxd_id=143655&watch=1                                                
 and to the petition that WCIA asked us to sign   http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/schweighartresign/                                                 




      








      


      
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