Black Voters Challenge House Members: Why Is Trump Still in Office? (NYT)

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/politics/black-voters-impeachment.html
Black Voters Challenge House Members: Why Is Trump Still in Office?
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
May 30, 2019

PHILADELPHIA — Moments after the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, wrapped up his extraordinary news conference on Wednesday, Representative Dwight Evans stepped out of his district office in a black working-class neighborhood here to visit with local business owners. They had one question on their minds: Why is President Trump still in office?

Mr. Evans, a Democrat who began calling for Mr. Trump to be impeached long before Mr. Mueller issued his report, was not surprised: “The issue that I hear constantly here is ‘We sent you for one reason only: To get rid of the president, right? Why haven’t you gotten rid of him yet?’”

In cities around the country, black Democrats like Mr. Evans — and other House members who represent majority-black districts — are hearing much the same from their African-American constituents, as well as from white liberals who have moved into the nation’s urban core. Those views are translating into action on Capitol Hill, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi is under increasing pressure from her rank-and-file to hurry up her time frame for what many see as an inevitable impeachment inquiry.

A number of prominent African-American lawmakers, including Representative Maxine Waters of California, the powerful chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, are leading the charge to impeach the president. On Wednesday, after Mr. Mueller declined to clear Mr. Trump, three more signed on: Representatives Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who is chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, and Danny K. Davis and Bobby L. Rush of Illinois. All are veteran Democrats.

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1. Pelosi has to get congressional Dems on board before she will voice

any impeachment talk.

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2. With all the talk of how amazing she is at the job it is surprising that she can get

Her group on board

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5. Their job is to listen to their constituents first, not Nancy. SO WE ALL NEED TO SPEAK UP.

Nancy only has 41 votes for impeachment right now. She can't just wave a wand and get 218 on board. She can arm twist a few stragglers, but not 177. She needs a lot more volunteers.

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7. Here is a song from another "Nancy" to TEFLON DON!

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9. Thank you for saying this

I've been really surprised at people here saying that the Members will go against their constituents if Pelosi tells them to, so if they're not yet on board with impeachment, it's because she's failing as a leader.

[pnwmom]

10. They don't understand that Pelosi can arm twist and wrangle a few stragglers, but she can't

push a bill or resolution through when there are still more than 170 Dems on the fence.

We have to help push them off. I'm going to a Town Hall on the 8th. I'm looking forward to it.

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3. AA Dems have shown time and again we need to follow their lead. Let's get on with it.

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4. An example of how not impeaching risks demoralizing the base

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6. I hope he told those people who asked him that, that the Dems don't have the power to remove him.

Just to impeach him on paper, for historical purposes.

I wonder how many of the people who are dying to get Trump removed from office voted in the 2016 election. There was a good turnout, but a lot of people didn't vote, and not everyone voted for Hillary.

It irritates me that there are so many criticisms, when things go wrong, by so many people, and I know that some of them didn't vote. If everyone had voted, we would have been able to overcome the Russian interference. So some of that criticism needs to be turned inward, and they need to take a vow that they'll turn out to vote from here on out.

The Republicans have the Senate. The Senate is needed to remove Trump. So that's not going to happen.

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8. I googled "Town Hall" and the name of my Seattle Rep and lo and behold:

he's holding a Town Hall on June 8th.

Other reps are holding Town Halls, too. Everyone should look to see if there's one in their area and attend it, and let our Reps know that impeachment -- i.e., saving our democracy -- is a priority for us.

Because otherwise the Reps will keep saying their constituents don't care.

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11. Exactly what is needed: a MOVEMENT, the renaissance of another Civil Rights movement

And removing SHITLER *will* be the first step in reviving Civil Rights that are being destroyed by him and his flying monkeys.