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Oral Majority takes on the GOP.


IMPEACH To accuse; to charge a liability upon; to sue. To dispute, disparage, deny, or contradict; as in to impeach a judgment or decree, or impeach a witness; or as used in the rule that a jury cannot impeach its verdict.  THE GOP

Longtime gay rights activist Bob Kunst is leading members of his Miami Beach Miami Beach, city (1990 pop. 92,639), Dade co., SE Fla., on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; inc. 1915. It is connected to Miami by four causeways. , Fla.-based Oral Majority in a series of Saturday demonstrations to "impeach the GOP." Kunst and about ten others launched their campaign in mid January.

"The Republican Party is in such deep hotwater doo-doo right now," Kunst said, "it might very well be possible to hang them with their own words."

The White House demonstrations, a contrast to those calling for President Clinton's impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. , likely will continue until the 2000 election. "We've had a tremendous reaction from tourists," Kunst said, adding that the $2 IMPEACH THE GOP bumper stickers bumper sticker
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A sticker bearing a printed message for display on a vehicle's bumper.

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 and buttons the group is selling also are popular.
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Mar 2, 1999
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