Posted on 05/11/2007 7:46:27 AM PDT by Lady J USA 1981
Cindy Sheehan May Run for US Congress in 2008
By Matthew Cardinale, News Editor, Atlanta Progressive News (May 10, 2007)
(APN) ATLANTA – Renowned antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan is considering a run for US Congress in 2008, Atlanta Progressive News has learned in the process of interviewing Sheehan about her upcoming rally in Washington, DC, this Mothers’ Day weekend. Sheehan became an activist in 2004 after her son, Casey, was killed during the US Invasion of Iraq.
“I’m on the National Board for the Progressive Democrats of America and they’re really trying to talk me into running for a Congressional Seat in 2008. It’s almost getting to the time to make my mind up by now. I do have the name recognition. I still can’t make my mind up on whether it would hurt the movement,” Sheehan told APN in a phone interview.
On the one hand, Sheehan feels she is already effective as a grassroots leader and does not know whether she would be more effective in Congress.
On the other hand, Sheehan sees that many in Congess don’t seem to be listening to reason.
“They have their own agenda. They need to realize their agenda has to be our agenda,” Sheehan said.
Sheehan, who considered a US Senate run in 2006 against US Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), said she isn’t sure yet which seat she would run for, because she has ties to several locations.
She has a home in California, but also has “resided” in Crawford, Texas, during her many demonstrations outside President Bush’s ranch. Therefore she has options.
Sheehan says ideally a Congressional Campaign for 2008 would have already begun, but because of name recognition believes there still is more time to “evaluate things.”
MOTHER’S DAY RALLY TO END THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ
“The day after Mothers’ Day, we’ll be having a rally in front of Lafayette Park, and we will march to Congress to end the war and hold George Bush and Dick Cheney accountable,” Sheehan said.
A key component of the rally will be to encourage participants to lobby Congress for impeachment of Bush and Cheney.
“One demand on Monday will be for people to co-sponsor H Res 333 [US Rep. Kucinich’s (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney]. They have to know they have popular support from the grassroots,” Sheehan said.
“We also need an effective campaign to target [US House Speaker] Pelosi and other Democratic leaders to put impeachment back on the table where it belongs,” Sheehan said.
“The grassroots is coming alive and I think it’s very exciting,” Sheehan said, adding, “I wish our politicians would come alive.”
“I think the grassroots movement is gaining steam in this country and we’ve had enough of do- nothing politicians,” Sheehan said.
“I think the impeachment movement and the peace movement have to be linked together. Bush said over and over again the troops aren’t coming home while he’s President. We’re not going to have peace when politicians think they’re above the law all the time, I don’t care if they’re Republican or Democrat.”
For more information on Sheehan’s upcoming rally, please visit http://www.thecampcaseypeaceinstitute.org
LOL, I dare her to run from Crawford! She will be squished like the bug she is.
“Cindy Sheehan May Run for US Congress in 2008 (OMG NO!)”
OMG YES! Everytime this woman opens her gaping maw, it serves as endless embarrassment for the left.
The way the America folk has been BRAIN DAMAGED, I give her a 50-50 she’ll be elected!! IDIOTS from hell!!
She must actually believe the publicity about her own competence.
Sheehan is dumb enough she might actually get elected.
As dog catcher!
Run for congress in Texas? Now she’ll need secret service protection!
OMG! Yes. Please, please, pretty please run! I love a good comedy.
This a$$hat couldn’t find her way out of a paper bag, much less LEGISLATE her way out! I am all for her running! It would only serve to elucidate the point that Moroncrats are out to destroy everything good and moral in society. This woman should be hanged for treason on pay-per-view.
hey this could be fun!
“Delusions of competency....”
Hi! I’m Cindy Sheehan and am running for Congress from your fair district in Crawford, Texas. I’m happy to be your neighbor (you know, the one who lives in a tent in a drainage ditch by President Bush’s ranch).
The only words that come to mind are idiot and Soros.
It would be nice if she ran, but I think this is just a combination of delusional thinking and publicity hounding.
Last time she threatened to run against Diane Feinstein for the Senate. Maybe this time she could run against Pelosi for the House. After all, Nancy has been pretty mean to the Code Pink protestors who have tried to visit her office and explain what she needs to do. I think I’ll suggest it to Cindy next time I run into her.
She has become nothing but a publicity whore. She is drunk on the attention she has received.
that, my friend, is an insult to dog catchers..
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