On July 8, peace activist Cindy Sheehan told the Associated Press that she may run for U.S. House in California’s 8th district as an independent. The incumbent is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Sheehan said she will run unless Pelosi files articles of impeachment against President Bush by July 23. If Sheehan runs, she will need 10,198 valid signatures to be collected between April 2008 and August 2008. She must take care not to be registered as a member of a qualified party at any time in the period October 2007 through August 2008. California election law does not permit anyone to become an independent candidate (for office other than president) if that person has been member of a qualified party during the 13 months before an election.
If she does run and if she does get on the ballot, she would be the first independent candidate for U.S. House from California since 1996, when Steven Wheeler ran in the San Luis Obispo County district against Andrea Seastrand and Walter Capps. Wheeler only got 4.0%.
I know myself and many others share in Ms. Sheehans’ frustration with the Democratic Leadership in the Congress. We haven’t really seen harsh or tough moves to end this war and hold this administration accountable for it follies. Everytime it seems the Dem’s succumb to fear of being labeled un-patriotic and losing their majority. Why Pelosi isn’t pressuring her caucus and the rest of the House everyday is disturbing, considering how many people die everyday we do nothing. Ms. Sheehan , in my opinion, would be a welcomed voice in this debate.
I think that she should run…run out our our great country…She is a nut…
Robert
do not march throught Arkansas..we are a great state and do not need the likes of you in it
Robert
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4956565.html
>…Sheehan even suggested that the Bush administration would refuse a
peaceful transition after the November 2008 elections.
“This is why they have to be removed. There will not be a peaceful
transfer of power on Jan. 20, 2009,” Sheehan said. “I don’t want to be
an alarmist.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4956565.html
July 10, 2007, 10:47PM
Sheehan brings new campaign through Houston
By ANNE MARIE KILDAY
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan spent her 50th birthday in Houston
today, attending events aimed at ending the war in Iraq.
Sheehan joined other activists who gathered on the Montrose bridge
during the afternoon rush hour to hold signs calling for the
impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Sheehan urged about 100 Houston peace activists to join join her
13-day caravan to Washington, D.C., where she plans to formally
announce her candidacy against U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Sheehan, a Californian, announced she will challenge Pelosi if the
lawmaker has not moved to impeach Bush and Cheney by July 23.
“My campaign is going to happen, because we know she is not going to
put impeachment on the table,” Sheehan said.
A spokesman for Pelosi said her “focus is on winning the war in Iraq.”
Sheehan said American troops should be immediately withdrawn from
Iraq.
“I have a very simple solution. Put our troops on the borders,”
Sheehan said. “Total and complete withdrawal, close the permanent
(military) bases, bring out the war profiteers.”
Since announcing her conditional candidacy against Pelosi, Sheehan
said the topic of impeachment has received more publicity.
Sheehan even suggested that the Bush administration would refuse a
peaceful transition after the November 2008 elections.
“This is why they have to be removed. There will not be a peaceful
transfer of power on Jan. 20, 2009,” Sheehan said. “I don’t want to be
an alarmist.”
In her speech at First Unitarian Universalist Church, Sheehan also
announced her new campaign, called People for Humanity, which is aimed
at ending the war, supporting veterans and sending medical supplies to
Iraqi refugees displaced by the war.
Many of the anti-war activists went to City Hall today and asked the
Houston City Council to support a resolution in favor of impeaching
Bush and Cheney.
“The actions of this administration have cost our city dearly,” said
John Beatty of Houston. “Most importantly in the lives of our children
in uniform, but also by increasing the number of Iraqi sympathizers
and increasing the risk of attacks on our refinery infrastructure.”
“When the National Guard is called to Iraq, the state’s ability to
control floods and wildfire is compromised,” said Christine Morshedi
of Tomball.
While some council members thanked the activists for exercising their
right of free speech, Councilman Michael Berry called them “terribly
rude” for wasting the council’s time. The mayor has a policy of not
allowing the council to take up non-binding resolutions.
“I never ran on the basis of whether to impeach the president or not,”
said Berry, a lawyer, businessman and conservative radio talk show
host.
Berry said the speakers were “taking up the time of people who have
issues that the city can actually address.”
“It’s not a political circus and that’s what Cindy Sheehan is about,”
Berry said.
Sheehan set up camp outside Bush’s Crawford ranch in 2005 as part of
her campaign to end the war in Iraq. Two months ago, Sheehan said she
was selling “Camp Casey,” named in honor of her 24-year-old son who
died in Iraq in April 2004.
In May, Sheehan said she was going home to California, after enduring
hatred and smear tactics from both the left and right.
This evening, Sheehan said she is “re-energized” by the idea of a
campaign against Pelosi and the new effort to help Iraq war veterans
and refugees.
Sheehan said she left the Democratic Party after Congress voted to
approve more funding for the way.
Chronicle reporter Carolyn Feibel and The Associated Press contributed
to this report.
anne.kilday@chron.com
Robert, the REAL nuts in this country are the ones currently “running” it. Can’t say I agree with Sheehan on everything (can’t say I disagree either) but its always refreshing to see new voices saying things that need to be said.