Bring the Troops Home referendums. Added together, the referendums produced a resounding 40,043 to 25,641 vote against the continued U.S. occupation of Iraq 61 percent to 39 percent. Supporters of the war are spinning like crazy to suggest that the referendums offer a reflection only of liberal, anti-Bush sentiment in college towns like Madison.
The problem they've got is that, while the Bring the Troops Home referendum won Madison by a thumping 62-38 percent, similar referendums won by 70-30 percent in the well-to-do Milwaukee suburb of Shorewood and by a dramatic 82-18 percent in the community of Couderay in rural Sawyer County.
Resolution to Impeach Bush-Cheney Passes 7-3
On Tuesday, February 28, 2006, the City and County of San Francisco became the first large municipality to call for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney, by a 7-3 vote.
