Pelosi Video Contest Award Winner #1
Note: Our first $1,000 award in our Pelosi Video Contest goes to Anthony from We Are Change Ohio for his outstanding effort to get an answer from Speaker Pelosi! Andrew writes:
I confronted Nancy Pelosi with the full articles of Impeachment. The crimes were highlighted. I have the full details of the confrontation in my video.It was extremely difficult to not only record the confrontation fully, but also to bring her the articles because security wasn't allowing any cameras or allowing anyone to bring anything to her other than her book. So I literally had to sneak all this by.
I maintained integrity by remaining polite and trying to get a response out of her without getting aggressive like other have been. I kept my confrontation on the point and not only did I confront her with this but I got two responses.
I got her to admit that she hasn't read the articles of impeachment and when I mentioned that all the crimes that Bush has done like eviscerating the Constitution she replied "that's terrible".
Unfortunately I was only able to get audio but I still have the footage in its original form on my camera intact. I hope this is the answer you folks were looking for and I did my best. She hasn't read the articles of impeachment and the crimes listed in the articles are "terrible" according to her.
The Pelosi Video Contest remains open so we encourage everyone to keep trying to get a substantive answer from Pelosi to our question: Of the 36 detailed Articles of Impeachment introduced by Dennis Kucinich, do you consider any to be crimes? If yes, which? If no, why not - and what (if anything) would you consider an impeachable offense?
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Unfortunately,
Hate to be a buzzkill, but...He says, "Will you look at these articles of impeachment." She replies, "You can leave them right here. I can't look at them right now." He says, "Do you have any comment on that?" and she laughs slightly saying, "I didn't read it yet" probably referring to what he handed her.
He doesn't indicate to Pelosi what articles of impeachment they are. And, for someone - Pelosi - who doesn't want to comment at all on this tour about impeachment she can easily respond to that question with "I haven't read it" and probably rightfully so because there could have been anything within those pages. Come to think of it she would have been a fool to comment on a stack of papers someone hands her even if she is told what is contained within.
It's too bad he didn't add "Have you read the articles of impeachment that Rep. Kucinich introduced" and get a yes/no answer.
But, when he describes the intense level of security around her, he is not exaggerating and you have to get things like that in quickly. I could barely finish my sentence before I was grabbed by security.
Everyone who is going to these signings needs to think like a lawyer when they ask her a question. She is a professional politician after all and an expert at legalese.
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Difficult Job
I can appreciate the difficulty of what this individual has done. It can be very intimidating.
At the end of last year I asked Gov Bill Richardson about UFOs in front of about 200 coworkers when he was in Austin TX campaigning for President.
I have to agree with the previous poster, that Pelosi only answered the question he asked her, not the question he meant to ask. It wasn't made clear to Pelosi that those were the same articles of impeachment that Kucinich had submitted. Whether you say that is fair or not, these people at this level are highly intelligent, highly trained politicians, trained at our nation's best schools. Pelosi would be more interested in dodging the question, especially in such a book signing environment, that if given the opportunity, she would take it, and she did.
What I did that helped me is that I prepared my question about a week in advance, and then I carried the question on a piece of paper into the Richardson Q&A session so that my nerves wouldn't rattle my mind and I would be unable to ask the question properly. Also, try to find people that you respect, perhaps lawyers or other political people sympathetic to your particular area of interest that might give you good feedback in making sure your question is worded properly.