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State News Release - August 26, 2002 |
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| Chandler Hosts 'Meet the Candidate' Night, Says Bush Threatens US Constitution. |
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Contact: Dave Chandler
Chandler Hosts Meet the Candidate Night. The meeting will be at the Belmar Public Library, 555 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. The library is in the Lakewood City Center located at the southwest corner of Alameda Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard. The open house will be conducted from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the library’s large meeting room. Chandler, the Colorado Green party candidate, encourages interested voters to attend the informal gathering so that he can introduce himself, discuss his stand on issues, and answer questions. Voter registration forms will also be available. The new seventh congressional district includes the communities of Aurora, Bennett, Strasburg, Brighton, Commerce City, Arvada, Wheat Ridge, Golden, and Lakewood. Bush Threatens Constitution on Iraq (Arvada, Colorado) Chandler disputes the legal advice about Bush’s power to make war reported by the Associated Press today. The news article says that White House lawyers have concluded that Bush does not need the approval of Congress to launch an attack on Iraq. The lawyers maintain that the congressional approval given eleven years ago, for the Persian Gulf war, still applies. “This is the kind of lawyerly, loophole-type excuse that makes Americans so distrustful of Washington,” said Chandler. “We are obviously in a different time, a different place, and Bush is talking about a different mission than what happened over a decade ago.” "Bush asserting that he doesn’t need a declaration of war is a direct threat to the Constitution. If the Congress cannot insist upon exercising its sole right to make war, then it is time to elect new representatives that respect the plain language of the nation’s founders,” Chandler said. Recently, Chandler published an article on his campaign web site calling for all candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to publicly state whether or not they would insist upon Congress exercising its unique power to vote yes or no on a declaration of war. Chandler wrote that if he is elected to the Congress, his commitment to the spirit of the Constitution would require him to file articles of impeachment against Bush if an attack was ordered without the declaration of war.
Contact: www.chandlerforcongress.com |
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