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Rocky was on CNN Wolfe Blitzer last night.
The tide has turned. Even LETTING Rocky on CNN to lay out the case for impeachment says something. I’m not sure what, but something.
I’m SO Proud! Go Rocky!
Rocky videos on YouTube. 

Rocky addressed a noontime crowd in outside his office today. He called for the impeachment of president Bush laying out the case clearly and forcefully.
Full speech (PDF)
A few excerpts:
We see it as our moral and patriotic duty to stand up and fight for our long held American values. Kidnapping and disappearing people [...]

I don’t often spend two hours watching C-SPAN like I did today. Assuming you weren’t watching too, imagine two hours on C-SPAN with only one elected official in sight. Yup, it was Mayor Rocky Anderson at the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition’s Pentagon rally. Here are my unsolicited observations.
The rally wasn’t at the Pentagon, exactly. [...]

Remarks of Mayor Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson
The Pentagon
Washington, D.C.
Rally for Impeachment
March 17, 2007
As patriots, we love and support our country – and we will not support a President who harms our nation and its people. Our love for our nation – our regard for our Constitution – brings us here today to call for [...]

Occasional OneUtah author and Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson was scheduled to be on Hannity and Colmes tonight, but according to anonymous sources (me), Hannity chickened out after watching a video of Rocky speaking.
The Deseret News is reporting the whitewash story or maybe they just don’t know the real story.
Here it is:
Hannity and Colmes [...]

Cliff Note: I feel like a jilted lover. I was the one who convinced Rocky to start blogging. OneUtah was started at his request. Clearly Rocky has outgrown us. Follows is a recent post from his DailyKos diary.
Dear Kossacks,
On March 1st, I testified before a Washington State Senate committee supporting Sen. Eric Oemig’s resolution [...]

I couldn’t resist the title.
For our readers not from Utah, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson is and enigma here in Utah — loved by those of us not threatened by the idea of a reality-based unified world community and hated by many more rural Utahns suspicious of progress.

Speech transcript
Rocky made his mark in the [...]

Remarks of Salt Lake City Mayor Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson
Washington, D.C.
January 27, 2007
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As Americans, we share common values – values of honesty, compassion, and, whenever possible, non-violence. We also recognize the moral responsibility we have to raise our voices in support of those values when they are under assault.

Rocky Hannity Debate
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Thanks as always to Norm at OneGoodMove for providing this video.
Note: This Debate occured on May 4, 2007. It is back dated to prevent showing on first page.

Our Rocky made the cover of Nation magazine.
Having spent several months as Rocky’s interim communications guy, I witnessed up close and personal the viceral, organized and popular sport of Rocky bashing. I can tell you it looks no different from the inside than the outside for the simple reason that both of our major [...]

Pignanelli & Webb’s article last Sunday was a classic exercise in pernicious, pattycake, pomposity.
The article entitled Who is the real Democrat, Matheson or Rocky? Was in traditional P&W fashion, a series of rhetorical questions.
They and the essence of the answers follow adorned with my glib comments in italics.
1. Is Jim Matheson a real Democrat?

Pignelli [...]

Reprinted with permission
Dear Rocky,
Before the dust settles completely on the anti-bush rally, I want to make you aware of some problems -technical and philosophical - that Wednesday’s rally presented. I am writing while they are still fresh in my mind.
As you know, I was on the organizing committee for the “rally” last spring. In [...]