[Peace-discussion] Corporate Democrats Beware: Impeachment within 2 weeks or Sheehan to run against Pelosi

[henry duke]

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From: Duane Roberts [mailto:duaneroberts92804@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 2:01 PM
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Subject: Sheehan considers challenge to Pelosi

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070708/ap_on_el_ho/cindy_sheehan_pelosi

Sheehan considers challenge to Pelosi

By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes
ago

CRAWFORD, Texas - Six weeks after announcing her
departure from the peace movement, Cindy Sheehan said
Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of
impeachment against President Bush in the next two
weeks

Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco
Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not
seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That's when Sheehan
and her supporters are to arrive in Washington, D.C.,
after a 13-day caravan and walking tour starting next
week from the group's war protest site near Bush's
Crawford ranch.

"Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the
Democratic leadership," Sheehan told The Associated
Press. "We hired them to bring an end to the war. I'm
not too far from San Francisco, so it wouldn't be too
big of a move for me. I would give her a run for her
money."

Messages left with Pelosi's staff were not immediately
returned.

Sheehan announced in May that she was leaving the
anti-war movement and selling her 5-acre Crawford lot.
She said that she felt her efforts had been in vain
and that she had endured smear tactics and hatred from
the left, as well as the right.

She plans to make her official announcement Tuesday
after what is expected to be her final weekend at the
Crawford lot, which she sold to California radio talk
show host Bree Walker.

Sheehan first came to Crawford in August 2005 during a
Bush vacation, demanding to talk to him about the war
that killed her son Casey in 2004.

She became the face of the anti-war movement during
her 26-day roadside vigil, which was joined by
thousands. But it also drew counterprotests of Bush
supporters, many who said she was hurting troop
morale.

Sheehan, who has never held political office, recently
said that she was leaving the Democratic Party because
it "caved" in to the president. Last week, she
announced her caravan to Washington, D.C., which she
calls the "people's accountability movement."

"I didn't expect to be back so soon, but the focus is
different than it was before," Sheehan said Sunday.
"Instead of talking and making accusations, we're
going into communities and talking to the people
who've been hurt by the Bush regime. We're finding out
how we can help people."

Sheehan said she lives in a suburb of Sacramento but
declined to disclose the city, citing safety reasons.


       
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