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The People vs. Donald J.Trump: Damn the Senate; Give Us the Evidence Through Impeachment and We’ll Be the Jury.
It was painful to witness.
I like our local Congressman Mike Thompson. A Vietnam War Veteran who won a Purple Heart, and has a strong record both for environmental protection and common sense guns laws, Mike always shows up for the community. I first met him at an event at Congregation Beth Shalom in Napa a few years back. He is approachable, listens well, and genuinely cares about human beings. I lived in Jerry Nadler’s Congressional District on the West Side of Manhattan and in Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco, before moving up to Napa. Thompson is in a class with the best Members of Congress. So, I do like Mike.
That’s why it was so tough to see him being so out of touch with many of us who have consistently supported him at his packed Town Hall meeting at the Calistoga Community Center in upper Napa Valley this week. The standing-room-only crowd was full of people of all ages, mostly white and Latino, with young parents holding their children, and older citizens holding copies of the Mueller Report. The overwhelming majority of us wanted Congressman Thompson to get off the fence, and support an Impeachment Inquiry of the President.
