Congresssional candidates Garcia and Lambert express support for impeaching President Obama
In a candidate forum sponsored by the New Boston Republican Committee, second district congressional candidates Marilinda Garcia and Gary Lambert expressed strong support for impeaching the President.
The question from a member of the audience, the last of the evening, was simple and direct. “Would you vote to impeach?” he asked the candidates.
“I would,” Garcia replied. “He has many, many impeachable offenses, it seems to me, in terms of his disregard for our Constitution alone, so I would…”
Lambert responded that he supports impeachment on principle (“I’m with you on this”) but would only support moving forward on it if he thought Republicans would prevail in the attempt to remove the President from office.
“It’s a big hypothetical. You heard me how I feel about winning, so first I gotta see whether or not that would work, whether or not we could win,“ he told the audience. "Then I’ll evaluate it at that time. … I’m with you on this but we gotta keep our eye on the ball and the eye on the ball is to win elections…”
The forum took place in New Boston on February 6, 2014. The candidates’ remarks were first reported by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on their website.