Dennis Morrisseau

Dennis Morrisseau is a former US Army officer, a retired businessman and the first Republican to run for Congress on a platform that promises to pursue the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. Morrisseau ran in his home state of Vermont in the 2006 election, coming in third place with 0.5% of the vote. He was one of the founders of the Vermont's Liberty Union Party in 1970 and their first candidate for U.S. Representative that year, after narrowly losing in a Democratic primary to a Democratic party veteran who had the leadership's backing. Morrisseau
had been court-martialled for opposing the Vietnam war while he was a US Army Officer
in 1968 and for refusing to serve. (His small legal team defeated the court-martial which carried a penalty , had he lost, of 5 years in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.) Until recently a Republican, he says that he voted for John Kerry for President in 2004. Now a political independent, Morrisseau appeared
on the November ballot under this descriptive "party" label: Impeach Bush Now. This creates the only state-wide referendum in the nation on Impeachment, says Morrisseau. "Maybe this one move up in Vermont will bring him down," he said.
Lawsuit
According to New York Times editor Max Frankel Morrisseau was an underfunded Vermont congressional candidate in the 1970s who sued the local television station and the Federal Communications Commission, contending that the influence of television and the high cost of political commercials on the public airwaves had effectively established an unconstitutional means test for federal office. The case was thrown out. "I still like the point,"
Morrisseau said to Frankel in 1999. "So do I." Frankel added.
On the Bush Administration
Morrisseau has issued the following statement:

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