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February 20, 2008

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Your Tax Dollars at Work: Gabby’s Chief of Staff Talks Impeachment

Gabby’s taxpayer-funded staffer featured guest at far left group’s impeachment meeting

TUCSON, AZ – Gabby Giffords’ Chief of Staff Maura Policelli tonight will be the special guest at a meeting of the Tucson chapter of Democracy for America, a far left-wing activist group bent on seeing that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are impeached.

“There are real problems facing southern Arizona like border security, healthcare and education,” Pima County Republican Party Chair Judi White said. “It’s hard to believe that Congresswoman Giffords would dispatch her top aide to such a frivolous event.”

According to the agenda posted on the group’s Web site, Policelli will participate in a discussion over topics relating to impeachment, including H. RES. 799, a resolution calling for the impeachment of the Vice President introduced by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. [http://www.dfatucson.blogspot.com, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c110:./temp/~c110ZuF128]

White expressed her dismay that a taxpayer-funded government employee would entertain the views of a group so far outside the mainstream of Congressional District 8.

“I realize that members of Congress and their staffs meet with constituents from all across the ideological spectrum,” White said. “But I believe that all members of Congress, including Congresswoman Giffords, have a responsibility to ensure that their employees, whose salaries are paid with our tax dollars, are not meeting with a group like DFA that openly seeks to undermine the foundation of our democracy with its reckless pursuit of impeachment. The congresswoman should do the right thing and cancel Ms. Policelli’s appearance.”