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Bennington BannerMan's impeachment march endingEVAN LEHMANN, Staff Writer
Friday, January 4
WASHINGTON — John Nirenberg of Brattleboro closed in on the 400-mile mark Thursday in a long, sometimes treacherous, walk lasting more than a month that's meant to promote the impeachment of President Bush.
Trucks roared by the 60-year-old and his walking partner, Frank Enneking, 72, as they trudged along the shoulder of U.S. Route 1 in southern Pennsylvania, steadily moving toward the Maryland border, which they hoped to cross before dark.
Nirenberg is nearly within reach of his goal: shuffling into the Capitol office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an attempt to spur her toward impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The walk began on Dec. 1 in Boston.
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Near Springfield, Pa., a man snuck up behind Nirenberg and took the window-size yellow sign he's carried since Boston, promoting impeachment. He crumpled the sign and ran away as Nirenberg clicked his image with a digital camera and called the police. "It was sooo Bush and Cheney," Nirenberg wrote on his blog of the incident. "It was so pathetic, so feeble. So illegally pre-emptive."
They have another sign now, prompting reaction — positive and negative — from motorists.
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Yet it's all worth the chance to deliver his message to Congress, which he feels has failed to protect the Constitution from a president who's overstepped legal limits regarding the Iraq war, detainee torture and domestic surveillance. "Regardless of the outcome, I certainly have satisfied my conscience," he said.
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