Berkeley Voters to Decide Whether to Impeach Pres.

Berkeley, Calif. (KCBS)  -- Berkeley voters will have a chance this November to decide whether they want to impeach President George Bush.

KCBS' Janice Wright reports that of course, no matter how the vote goes, a city can't impeach the president, but that didn't stop the city council from unanimously approving a ballot measure Tuesday night to fire the current occupants of the White House

"If anybody has committed impeachable offenses against American, against the people of the world, it is George Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of the Administration," said activist Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son in Iraq and recently moved to Berkeley.

As purely symbolic as the gesture is, Mayor Tom Bates said Berkeley has always been first out of the gate with ideas that may seem radical and then the rest of the country follows.

However, one local resident told CBS5, it's a case of misplaced priorities. She said all you have to do is look around and you see what the city should be focusing on instead of a vote to impeach the president. "Education, look at all the homeless around here."