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Home Front: Politix

California City Passes Unanimous Resolution to Impeach Trump

2017-02-23

The city council of Richmond, California -- a relatively poor, industrial community on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay -- voted unanimously on Tuesday evening in favor of a resolution calling for President Donald Trump to be impeached.

The text of the resolution was not immediately available, but the city council agenda listed "a resolution in support of a Congressional investigation regarding the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump."

The basis for Trump’s impeachment, according to local ABC News affiliate KGO, would be the president’s alleged links to his private business holdings. Critics have claimed that these create conflicts of interest, and possibly violate the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.

However, there is no evidence that Trump has benefited from conflicts of interest, or that he has done anything illegal to justify the "high crimes and misdemeanors" standard for impeachment. The Emoluments Clause argument is also thought by many constitutional scholars and legal analysts to be very weak.

Donald Trump has been something of an obsession for Richmond politicians. In 2015, the mayor blamed Trump for inciting a hate crime against a local mosque, even though the suspect had praised Hillary Clinton in social media.

Richmond is the sixth-poorest large city in the state, and has the highest public employee salary burden, according to a nonpartisan report issued last year. The report documented exorbitant salaries paid to local officials, such as $560,000 in total salary and benefits to the local fire chief.

Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#9 2010[edit]
The 2010 United States Census[59] reported that Richmond had a population of 103,701. The population density was 1,976.0 inhabitants per square mile (762.9/km2). The racial makeup of Richmond was 32,590 (31.4%) White, 27,542 (26.6%) African American, 662 (0.6%) Native American, 13,984 (13.5%) Asian (4.0% Chinese, 3.5% Filipino, 1.6% Laotian, 1.2% Indian, 0.7% Vietnamese, 0.6% Japanese, 0.4% Korean, 0.2% Pakistani, 0.1% Thai), 537 (0.5%) Pacific Islander, 22,573 (21.8%) from other races, and 5,813 (5.6%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 40,921 persons (39.5%). Among the Hispanic population, 27.3% were of Mexican origin, 4.7% Salvadoran, 1.7% Guatemalan, and 1.2% Nicaraguan heritage.

The census reported that 102,118 people (98.5% of the population) lived in households, 670 (0.6%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 913 (0.9%) were institutionalized.

There were 36,093 households, out of which 13,487 (37.4%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 14,502 (40.2%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 6,931 (19.2%) had a female householder with no husband present, 2,585 (7.2%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 2,538 (7.0%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 427 (1.2%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 9,546 households (26.4%) were made up of individuals and 2,707 (7.5%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83. There were 24,018 families (66.5% of all households); the average family size was 3.43.

The population was spread out with 25,800 people (24.9%) under the age of 18, 10,364 people (10.0%) aged 18 to 24, 30,846 people (29.7%) aged 25 to 44, 26,109 people (25.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 10,582 people (10.2%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34.8 years. For every 100 females there were 94.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.0 males.

There were 39,328 housing units at an average density of 749.4 per square mile (289.3/km2), of which 18,659 (51.7%) were owner-occupied, and 17,434 (48.3%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.5%; the rental vacancy rate was 8.1%. 52,683 people (50.8% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 49,435 people (47.7%) lived in rented housing.

The African-American population in Richmond was 22% African-American as of 2015, while it was 44% African-American in 1990.[60]

[hide]Demographic profile[61] 2010
Total Population 103,701 – 100.0%
One Race 97,888 – 94.4%
Not Hispanic or Latino 62,780 – 60.5%
White alone 17,769 – 17.1%
Black or African American alone 26,872 – 25.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native alone 250 – 0.2%
Asian alone 13,783 – 13.3%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 462 – 0.4%
Some other race alone 585 – 0.6%
Two or more races alone 3,059 – 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 40,921 – 39.5%

Posted by: 3dc 2017-02-23 17:31

#8 Ummm - maybe y'all should have read the Constitution before the vote?

Naaahhhh - what was I thinking?

Posted by: Barbara 2017-02-23 14:48

#7 Ah, my old home town. Competitive - in that it's a constant contender for murder capital of northern California. Poor - in the sense that it's such an urban abyss so frightening that it makes people from Oakland shiver. Blighted - in the sense that there are entire neighborhoods of semi-abandoned crack houses.

Nice to see it's government still has their priorities straight!

Posted by: Secret Master 2017-02-23 10:56

#6 ...not to mention clean water (let's not even think about poo removal). And for heaven sakes, don't cross those streams.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-02-23 07:03

#5 I'm thinking the pothole repair money will soon be cut.

Posted by: Skidmark 2017-02-23 03:48

#4 The report documented exorbitant salaries paid to local officials, such as $560,000 in total salary and benefits to the local fire chief.

Usually under totalitarian control of corrupt Dim politicians. Anyone who would be a threat to their exorbitant life style must be targeted with lies, lies, and more lies to keep poverty stricken voters misinformed.

Posted by: Angeanter Spusosh5258 2017-02-23 01:23

#3 Now let them enforce it.

Posted by: Raj 2017-02-23 00:38

#2 I can just guess the makeup of the city council.

Posted by: Crusader 2017-02-23 00:34

#1 Richmond is the sixth-poorest large city in the state, and has the highest public employee salary burden, according to a nonpartisan report issued last year.

Found the problem.

Posted by: DarthVader 2017-02-23 00:06

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