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Katrina Relief Money Spent On Impeachment Buses
Sweetness & Light ^ | October 5, 2005 | N/A

Posted on 10/05/2005 9:36:20 AM PDT by Sam Hill

Some more on the Veterans For Peace and their Katrina relief grift. Here they spell out how money donated to help hurricane victims has been spent on buses for their campaign to overthrow our elected government.

These are emails collected by one of our indefatigable researchers:

Cindy Sheehan and friend pose in front of the VFP’s Impeachment Tour bus

From: "Margaret E. Hayes" <mehayestranslations@...> 
Date: Mon Oct 3, 2005  3:54 pm 
Subject: Re: [campcaseyalumni] Re: Donations for hurricane victims-BUS 
IDEA  alegria78704 
 Offline 
 Send Email  

Dear Gordon, If we find the right bus, and it meets these criteria, what is the best next step? Do we call or email you or someone else? We are already looking. Thanks SO MUCH for the information; it is very very very helpful. I miss you and hope to see you soon and also haop you come through Austin soon.

In solidarity,

Margaret Hayes

Margaret Hayes PO Box 33063 Austin TX 78764

Bring the troops home!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gordon Soderberg <gordonsoderberg@mac.com> To: "Margaret E. Hayes" <mehayestranslations@hotmail.com> CC: beasaldivar@sbcglobal.net, underhill@att.net, joker4penquin@charter.net, twavatar@yahoo.com, campcaseyalumni@yahoogroups.com, wolfishq@att.net, signwares@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [campcaseyalumni] Re: Donations for hurricane victims-BUS IDEA Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:07:32 -0700 We are looking at a short bus with wheel chair ramp $5,000 great shape VFP Katrina Fundhas approved paying for it. We are also looking for a motor coach ( bus, motor home for the Impeachment tour. Pat Tate will be returning to California with the oringinal bus. Dennis Kyne, Fred Danforth, and Myself will be starting the impeachment tour again in October from The Farm in Tennessee.

On Saturday, October 01, 2005, at 12:02PM, Margaret E. Hayes <mehayestranslations@hotmail.com> wrote:

> ><<Original Attached>>

Gordon Soderberg Veterans For Peace Chapter 22 and 56

Dear Beatriz,

I think you have a great point and there are lots of other offers for buses coming in. Peace and keep up the good work. Beatriz, I never met you personally at camp casey but I admire you a lot and am so sorry for your loss.

In Peace,

Margaret

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From: Beatriz Saldivar <beasaldivar@sbcglobal.net> To: underhill@att.net, Bill Mitchell <joker4penquin@charter.net>, Owen <twavatar@yahoo.com>, Margaret <mehayestranslations@hotmail.com>, Camp Casey <campcaseyalumni@yahoogroups.com> CC: John Wolf <wolfishq@att.net>, SignWares Company <signwares@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [campcaseyalumni] Re: Donations for hurricane victims-BUS IDEA Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 09:19:03 -0700 (PDT)

Hi :-)

Jim is still at Washington D.C., 703-237-4296 (at his friends place). He will be there probably until this weekend. I'm still trying to see what we can do with the bus. We need the bus to stop this war, but we also need to work together with other people. That is where I'm at right now. We must re-group as we can't afford to lose the momentum to STOP this WAR.

Thanks,

Bea Saldivar 817-891-9011

underhill@att.net wrote: Margaret and Owen and...

I have lost contact with Jim and the bus. I'm not sure what he is doing now that the rally is over. Perhaps Beatriz Saldivar or Bill Mitchell know Jim's plans for the bus. DUnderhill 512-799-9379 -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Owen > Margaret, > > There's one Greyhound-quality bus possibly > available now, possibly more if needed. Dick > Underhill has details. > > We (Owen & Carol Ware), thru our sign company, > put the lettering & graphics onto an unofficial > VfP bus at John Wolf's company shop, then it went > onward to Wash DC for the Sept 24th events. They > also added some fairly comfortable bunks. I > don't know where it is now, but maybe Dick does. > The graphics can be easily removed and changed. > We have all the dimensions and could send > replacements to wherever the bus is now. > > I also suggested the veggie-oil conversion to > them, but of course there wasn't time before the > trip. > > More buses are available. > > We also made the magnetic signs being used by the > VfP in the current Louisiana/Mississippi relief > efforts, and the 18' and 5' banners for the 3 RVs > on Cindy's 'Bring Them Home Now' Tour. > > Please keep us informed if you decide to pursue > this!? > > Best regards, > > Owen Ware > > P.S.: Dick -- Carol & Heather went to Louisiana > to do animal rescues! > > > --- Margaret > wrote: > > > There has been talk of buying a schoolbus and > > builidng 4 bunks on and > > donating it to Algiers. It could serve as > > housing for at least 8 > > volunteers as well as a mobile clinic, kitchen > > or Wi-fi spot. Does > > anyone want to donate a diesel school bus? > > Also, wouldn't it be great > > to convert it to run on vegetable oil as gas > > for generators/diesel for > > vehicles is very very hard to come by. How > > about a whole fleet? We can > > send a hurrican relief bus to every area on the > > gulf coast that needs > > it. Email me if you are as thrilled about this > > idea as I am. I am > > actually for once regretting not having a > > driver's license!

It's a good idea for the VFP to use "magnetic signs" so they won't have to cover up their paint jobs in the future. Like they are doing here when they were trying to convince people in Covington that they were with the Red Cross.

So was the bus Mother Sheehan and her entourage took to Washington paid for by Katrina relief donations? It sure sounds like it.



TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cindysheehan; fraud; katrina; scam; veteransforpeace; vfp; vfpfraud
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This, together with the story about the VFP buying video equipment with Katrina donations, is exactly what we said would happen all along.
1 posted on 10/05/2005 9:36:27 AM PDT by Sam Hill
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To: All
Sorry about that, it worked in preview. Here is the last part of the emails again:


I have lost contact with Jim and the bus. I'm not sure what he is doing 
now that the rally is over. Perhaps Beatriz Saldivar or Bill Mitchell 
know Jim's plans for the bus. DUnderhill 512-799-9379
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Owen 
> Margaret,
> 
> There's one Greyhound-quality bus possibly
> available now, possibly more if needed. Dick
> Underhill has details.
> 
> We (Owen & Carol Ware), thru our sign company,
> put the lettering & graphics onto an unofficial
> VfP bus at John Wolf's company shop, then it went
> onward to Wash DC for the Sept 24th events. They
> also added some fairly comfortable bunks. I
> don't know where it is now, but maybe Dick does. 
> The graphics can be easily removed and changed. 
> We have all the dimensions and could send
> replacements to wherever the bus is now.
> 
> I also suggested the veggie-oil conversion to
> them, but of course there wasn't time before the
> trip.
> 
> More buses are available.
> 
> We also made the magnetic signs being used by the
> VfP in the current Louisiana/Mississippi relief
> efforts, and the 18' and 5' banners for the 3 RVs
> on Cindy's 'Bring Them Home Now' Tour.
> 
> Please keep us informed if you decide to pursue
> this!?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Owen Ware
> 
> P.S.: Dick -- Carol & Heather went to Louisiana
> to do animal rescues!
> 
> 
> --- Margaret 
> wrote:
> 
> > There has been talk of buying a schoolbus and
> > builidng 4 bunks on and
> > donating it to Algiers. It could serve as
> > housing for at least 8
> > volunteers as well as a mobile clinic, kitchen
> > or Wi-fi spot. Does
> > anyone want to donate a diesel school bus?
> > Also, wouldn't it be great
> > to convert it to run on vegetable oil as gas
> > for generators/diesel for
> > vehicles is very very hard to come by. How
> > about a whole fleet? We can
> > send a hurrican relief bus to every area on the
> > gulf coast that needs
> > it. Email me if you are as thrilled about this
> > idea as I am. I am
> > actually for once regretting not having a
> > driver's license!

2 posted on 10/05/2005 9:39:05 AM PDT by Sam Hill
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To: Howlin; Deb; kcvl; Mo1; Enchante; nopardons; veronica; KJC1; stocksthatgoup; mewzilla; backhoe; ...

More on the Cindy and the Camp Casey III scam.


3 posted on 10/05/2005 9:40:48 AM PDT by Sam Hill
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To: Sam Hill

"We need the bus to stop this war"

Do they know how absolutely silly that sounds?


4 posted on 10/05/2005 9:44:53 AM PDT by half-cajun
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To: Sam Hill

Looks like fraud to me...


5 posted on 10/05/2005 9:45:15 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: half-cajun

Someone needs to throw this twits under the bus.


6 posted on 10/05/2005 9:46:35 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Ponce de Leon is coming here to look for the fountain of dumb. The DNC is his first stop.)
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To: Sam Hill

Ok... I read the whole chain, but I don't see any mention of using Katrina contributions for the bus.


7 posted on 10/05/2005 9:48:06 AM PDT by Pessimist
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To: 2banana

Those people have no morals!!!


8 posted on 10/05/2005 9:48:38 AM PDT by lonestar (Jasper--gone to College Station)
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To: half-cajun

They're deeply delusional as well as stupid.


9 posted on 10/05/2005 9:49:41 AM PDT by Enchante (Mary Mapes serves the interests of Zarqawi and Bin Laden)
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We are looking at a short bus with wheel chair ramp $5,000 great shape VFP Katrina Fundhas approved paying for it.

Could this be it?

10 posted on 10/05/2005 9:50:50 AM PDT by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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To: Sam Hill

Dumb question (or at least, ignorant):

What Katrina donations? Were there donations TO VFP allegedly FOR Katrina stuff, or were they somehow skimmed off some other donation program that doesn't claim to be about "peace" or "impeachment" (e.g., Salvation Army)? Was there some official org set up by VFP to (allegedly) funnel funds for Katrina relief?

In short, is this Katrina relief officially totally separate from VFP or is it 1 of their "functions"?


11 posted on 10/05/2005 9:51:08 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: frogjerk

Yes.


12 posted on 10/05/2005 9:51:41 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Pessimist
"Soderberg To: "Margaret E. Hayes" CC: beasaldivar@sbcglobal.net, underhill@att.net, joker4penquin@charter.net, twavatar@yahoo.com, campcaseyalumni@yahoogroups.com, wolfishq@att.net, signwares@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [campcaseyalumni] Re: Donations for hurricane victims-BUS IDEA Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:07:32 -0700 We are looking at a short bus with wheel chair ramp $5,000 great shape VFP Katrina Fundhas approved paying for it. We are also looking for a motor coach ( bus, motor home for the Impeachment tour. Pat Tate will be returning to California with the oringinal bus. Dennis Kyne, Fred Danforth, and Myself will be starting the impeachment tour again in October from The Farm in Tennessee." It's in there.
13 posted on 10/05/2005 9:52:39 AM PDT by half-cajun
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To: Pessimist

I don't know the details, for sure, but it's a small group of activists who have been raising money under the guise of "Katrina relief" and using their equipment/buses alternately for their anti-war activism and for their radical organizing in LA. I strongly doubt that they have the slightest separation of "Katrina funds" from everything else that they are doing which has nothing to do with hurricane relief. They need to be thoroughly investigated by the FBI and prosecuted for fraud if this is what it surely appears to be....


14 posted on 10/05/2005 9:54:21 AM PDT by Enchante (Mary Mapes serves the interests of Zarqawi and Bin Laden)
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To: Sam Hill
"Email me if you are as thrilled about this idea as I am. I am actually for once regretting not having a driver's license!"

They write like they act - As a bunch of pre-adolescent crybabies whose omly reaction to anything is to wail and call names. What a joke!

15 posted on 10/05/2005 9:54:38 AM PDT by drt1
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To: Pessimist
...] Re: Donations for hurricane victims-BUS IDEA Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:07:32 -0700 We are looking at a short bus with wheel chair ramp $5,000 great shape VFP Katrina Fundhas approved paying for it. We are also looking for a motor coach ( bus, motor home for the Impeachment tour. Pat Tate will be returning to California with the oringinal bus. Dennis Kyne, Fred Danforth, and Myself will be starting the impeachment tour again in October from The Farm in Tennessee.

See this in the original posting. The underlining was mine.

16 posted on 10/05/2005 9:55:35 AM PDT by Tarheel
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To: 2banana

Yep! Criminally prosecutable fraud.


17 posted on 10/05/2005 9:57:48 AM PDT by NickatNite2003
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To: half-cajun

Probably not. They have left sanity and rational thought so far behind that they actually believe that Bush himself blew up the levies in NO because he hates black people.


18 posted on 10/05/2005 9:58:08 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Sam Hill

Hey ... maybe they can offer to rent them out to the Mayor of NO


19 posted on 10/05/2005 10:02:35 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: Conspiracy Guy
We are looking at a short bus

Very appropriate.

20 posted on 10/05/2005 10:05:32 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
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