Iraq war issues to be on ballots
By Mike Monson
Wednesday April 12, 2006
Robert K. O'Daniell
Amy Robinson holds the dogtags of her husband as she listens to people speak at the City of Champaign Township meeting on Tuesday evening. Her husband, John, is in Iraq with the Urbana National Guard unit, which is expected to return in three weeks. She said she has nothing but pride for the soldiers serving in the war.
Advisory referendums asking whether Champaign-Urbana residents support rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will appear on the Nov. 7 ballot.
Dozens of residents, many of them members of the anti-war group AWARE, packed the annual town meetings Tuesday night in Cunningham and City of Champaign townships. They had the votes to put both measures on the ballot in the townships, which are coterminous with Urbana and Champaign.
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