Citizens in the second Congressional district of West Virginia have launched a petition drive urging their Congresswoman, Shelley Moore Capito, to resign.

They have put up a web site — capitoresign.org — that urges citizens of the district to sign a petition calling on Capito to resign.

“We all know people in this district who are dying or who have died because they don’t have health insurance,” said Russell Mokhiber of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, who is helping to organize the effort.

“We know of people in this district who are waiting to become 65 so they can get the care they need under Medicare,” Mokhiber said. “But not only is Congresswoman Capito opposed to public health insurance for all. She wants to put Medicare on the road to extinction. In April, Capito voted for a plan that the Wall Street Journal said ‘would essentially end Medicare.’ She is siding with the health insurance companies and against the people she was elected to represent. She is working to expand the pay or die system we live under. This is unconscionable. Capito should resign.”

In addition to her vote to end Medicare, the petition cites her support for Wall Street and the big banks over the interests of her constituents.

Capito has recently taken a leadership role in the House to weaken the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The number one contributor to her campaigns over her ten years in office has been Citibank.

Mokhiber said that the group seeking Capito’s resignation will take the petition drive to all 18 counties in the district.