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Probably a name most haven't heard for awhile. She's challenging Pelosi for her seat in Congress. Here's the write-up from the local paper today.
Cindy's world: Things are getting downright weird for Cindy Sheehan, the world's most famous anti-Iraq war activist.
Sheehan, who is running an uphill fight for the San Francisco congressional seat held by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is telling the world via her "Cindy for Congress '08" Web site that she is now the target of a dirty-tricks campaign.
According to Sheehan, the first sign was at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August when she returned to her hotel room just in time to catch a maintenance worker who supposedly was changing a lightbulb. She thinks he was actually bugging her phone.
Then two weeks ago, Sheehan says, she was invited down to the "We the People" music festival in Los Angeles - only to be prevented from speaking once she arrived. The next day, she heard from a reporter of an alternative newsweekly that no less than L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was "involved in the decision to silence my voice."
Then last week, she filed a restraining order against a former volunteer who allegedly has been sending threatening e-mails. On her Web site, Sheehan says "we now know (he) was probably spying on us for the Pelosi camp." Pelosi's people brushed off the suggestion as absurd.
The taillights on her campaign's RV were subsequently busted out. Not long after that, Sheehan writes, four young men walked into the campaign office on Mission Street, acted like they wanted to register to vote, then "grabbed one of our computers and beat an intern over the head when she tried to stop them."
To top it off, Sheehan says, she has been summoned to jury duty in San Francisco on "the week of, you guessed it, the elections!"
But for Sheehan, the most compelling evidence of dirty play involved the robo calls that her campaign made to voters. The idea was to start last Monday, she says, but then "we started getting phone calls and e-mails blasting us for sending out the calls at 10:30 on a Saturday night." The candidate noted that people tend to find such late-night calls "extremely annoying."
"Was it just a 'glitch' in the system, as the owner of the robo-call company claims, or overt sabotage of the campaign?" Sheehan wrote, before concluding: "The stakes are high and I have a feeling 'they' won't stop at anything to assure that the tyranny of incumbency continues."
By the way, Sheehan campaign manager Tiffany Burns tells us that "except for these little bumps, everything is going great."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/18/BALG13JJUV.DTL&tsp=1
Cindy's world: Things are getting downright weird for Cindy Sheehan, the world's most famous anti-Iraq war activist.
Sheehan, who is running an uphill fight for the San Francisco congressional seat held by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is telling the world via her "Cindy for Congress '08" Web site that she is now the target of a dirty-tricks campaign.
According to Sheehan, the first sign was at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August when she returned to her hotel room just in time to catch a maintenance worker who supposedly was changing a lightbulb. She thinks he was actually bugging her phone.
Then two weeks ago, Sheehan says, she was invited down to the "We the People" music festival in Los Angeles - only to be prevented from speaking once she arrived. The next day, she heard from a reporter of an alternative newsweekly that no less than L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was "involved in the decision to silence my voice."
Then last week, she filed a restraining order against a former volunteer who allegedly has been sending threatening e-mails. On her Web site, Sheehan says "we now know (he) was probably spying on us for the Pelosi camp." Pelosi's people brushed off the suggestion as absurd.
The taillights on her campaign's RV were subsequently busted out. Not long after that, Sheehan writes, four young men walked into the campaign office on Mission Street, acted like they wanted to register to vote, then "grabbed one of our computers and beat an intern over the head when she tried to stop them."
To top it off, Sheehan says, she has been summoned to jury duty in San Francisco on "the week of, you guessed it, the elections!"
But for Sheehan, the most compelling evidence of dirty play involved the robo calls that her campaign made to voters. The idea was to start last Monday, she says, but then "we started getting phone calls and e-mails blasting us for sending out the calls at 10:30 on a Saturday night." The candidate noted that people tend to find such late-night calls "extremely annoying."
"Was it just a 'glitch' in the system, as the owner of the robo-call company claims, or overt sabotage of the campaign?" Sheehan wrote, before concluding: "The stakes are high and I have a feeling 'they' won't stop at anything to assure that the tyranny of incumbency continues."
By the way, Sheehan campaign manager Tiffany Burns tells us that "except for these little bumps, everything is going great."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/18/BALG13JJUV.DTL&tsp=1
