Saturday, January 28, 2006

News from Venezuela: Mother Sheehan may run for Senate against Feinstein

Cindy Sheehan, the so-called "Peace Mom," is in Venezuela at something called the World Social Forum. From the friendly-for-her-environment in South America, she told an AP reporter that she is thinking of running in the California Democratic primary against incumbent Senator Diane Feinstein.

Feinstein is hardly a hawk when it comes Iraq, but since Sheehan's fellow Californian is against an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq, Sheehan opposes her.

Not being familiar with election law, I'm curious how this will effect the funding of the Sheehan Enterprise.

Last August, ABC 7 San Francisco's Mark Matthews reported that Ben "Ben & Jerry" Cohen's True Majority's was a big funder of Sheehan's "Camp Casey" in Texas. Among the other financiers of Sheehan-connected activities are MoveOn.org, Howard Dean's Democracy for America, and Code Pink.

Call me a cynic, but does anyone believe Cindy Sheehan is working as the "Peace Mom" for free? A run for the US Senate might complicate things for Mother Sheehan.

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