Brief by Allen Best
Politics – May 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
As the saying goes, “Think globally, act locally,” and that’s pretty much how things turned out in Nederland, a mountain town high in the Front Range west of Boulder.
On April 11, its town board of trustees considered a resolution supporting the impeachment of President George W. Bush. It came from Trustee Scott Franklin, who said that the president’s actions affect town business, and “we have to speak up, or we’re not on the map…. It has to start somewhere.”
His resolution called on Nederland’s congressman, Rep. Mark Udall, to draw up articles of impeachment against the president.
But Laura Farris, a trustee who was elected mayor earlier in April, saw it differently. “We really need to be working on our infrastructure. We need to be focusing on our tax revenues…. I feel like the resolution is a distraction.”
At the meeting, impeachment supporters presented a petition with about 250 signatures. When trustees voted, the result was a 3-3 tie, and under parliamentary rules, a tie leaves the situation unchanged — which meant no resolution.