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Pro-Troops Group Wants Sheehan's Land
AP ^ | June 1, 2007

Posted on 06/01/2007 4:29:38 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative

Days after Cindy Sheehan announced she was stepping down as the face of the anti-war movement, a pro-troop organization said Friday it plans to buy her protest site outside President Bush's ranch.

But Sheehan doesn't want to sell to just anyone.

"It'll be a cold day in hell before she sells it to them," her sister, Dede Miller, told The Associated Press. "She'll sell it to them for $5 million."

Move America Forward wants to place a monument to the troops on the 5-acre site in Crawford, about 100 miles south of Fort Worth.

"There's definitely symbolism behind being able to take that land and being able to put up a monument that supports our troops," said Robert Dixon, executive director of the Sacramento, Calif.-based group. "It's purely symbolic. We're not going to be holding any rallies there."

Sheehan, who was unavailable for comment, plans to sell the land on eBay as early as next week with a starting bid of $80,000, Miller said. Since buying the property last year for $52,500, Sheehan's group has made many improvements, including putting in gravel roads, clearing brush and planting gardens, Miller said.

Dixon said that after Sheehan's announcement Monday, he was flooded with e-mails from Move America Forward members who thought the group should buy the land. The nonprofit organization had planned to erect a monument to honor U.S. troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, possibly in Crawford, so "we figured this is the perfect thing to do," he said.

Dixon said the group is "pretty much prepared to do what we have to do" to get the land but has a price limit, which he declined to disclose. The group retained a California real estate agent to start working on the deal and will start raising money, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 15minutesareover; cindysheehan; mediawhore; moveamericaforward; sheehan
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1 posted on 06/01/2007 4:29:38 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative
"She'll sell it to them for $5 million."

So she is a whore, she just wants to haggle over the price.

2 posted on 06/01/2007 4:31:37 PM PDT by SampleMan (Islamic tolerance is practiced by killing you last.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

I wonder why she is against a monument for our fallen heros.


3 posted on 06/01/2007 4:35:21 PM PDT by beckysueb
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To: West Coast Conservative

If Sheehan discriminates against them because they’re conservative, she can be sued for discrimination. Oh, what joy!


4 posted on 06/01/2007 4:36:11 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one BYJ movie at a time!)
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To: West Coast Conservative
But first:

Process for soil decontamination by oxidation and vacuum extraction Kill Soil

5 posted on 06/01/2007 4:37:00 PM PDT by JimVT (Oh, the days of the Kerry dancing, Oh, the ring of the piper's tune)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Someone from around here should buy the land for this group..Like she did, she had someone buy it for her because she knew no one would sell her anything..Find out what she paid for it which it should be recorded and then tell everyone ..then we will also see what kind of profit she is trying to make..Or it can stay in her hands and she can pay the taxes on it if she thinks it is worth five million then she should be taxed for that price.. Give me the money and I will make an offer to the old hag...
6 posted on 06/01/2007 4:38:02 PM PDT by Beth528
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To: West Coast Conservative
Pro America groups should just buy it through a straw purchaser, like she did.
7 posted on 06/01/2007 4:38:46 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: beckysueb

Those are my thoughts too. Petty much tells me what I already knew about her and her ilk.


8 posted on 06/01/2007 4:40:20 PM PDT by avacado
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To: West Coast Conservative

“We’re just quibbling over the price.”


9 posted on 06/01/2007 4:40:27 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: beckysueb

I always thought the “We support the troops, just not their mission” crowd were lying through their teeth.


10 posted on 06/01/2007 4:42:04 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: West Coast Conservative
Will she remove her uterus before the transfer?
11 posted on 06/01/2007 4:43:58 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Never insult small minded men in positions of power.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Anyone else wonder if liens are going to be soon attached against this property due to the group's fraud?
12 posted on 06/01/2007 4:44:09 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

She is afraid of the one name that will be prominently featured on that monument: “Casey Sheehan”


13 posted on 06/01/2007 4:45:28 PM PDT by dynachrome (Henry Bowman is right.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

If she sells it on Ebay and it only goes for say $150,000, won’t she have to hand it over? Or is she going to put a $5,000,000.00 Reserve on it, LOL!!


14 posted on 06/01/2007 4:47:16 PM PDT by acoulterfan
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To: JimVT

You are right in your observations … it will take much cleaning before this piece of land is habitable again.


15 posted on 06/01/2007 4:48:12 PM PDT by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: West Coast Conservative

A Kelo vs New London maneuver never looked so appealing. ;O)


16 posted on 06/01/2007 4:51:01 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: Tamar1973
...she can be sued for discrimination.

EXACTLY!!

17 posted on 06/01/2007 4:54:02 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1 (Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Tomorrow is always the busiest day!)
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To: SampleMan

They should do what she did — Didn’t she have a third party buy it from the owners, so they wouldn’t know it was HER? Well, then, fair is fair.


18 posted on 06/01/2007 4:57:51 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: West Coast Conservative

If I remember correctly, SHE got the land from a “straw” buyer. The owner at the time said knowing who the end owner was, he would not have sold.


19 posted on 06/01/2007 5:12:25 PM PDT by hophead ("Enjoy Every Sandwich")
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To: beckysueb
I wonder why she is against a monument for our fallen heros.

Good question.

20 posted on 06/01/2007 5:17:38 PM PDT by syriacus ("...had the US troops remained [in S. Korea in 1949], there would have been no [Korean] War")
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