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Open Letter to all San Francisco Voters of Conscience: Cindy Sheehan Needs Your Help Now!
A small effort is all it takes for San Franciscans to make a real positive difference in this year's election.
Sign the petition to put Cindy Sheehan on the ballot to run for Congress!
Sign the petition to put Cindy Sheehan on the ballot to run for Congress!

San Francisco
August 2, 2008
Dear brother and sister San Franciscans,
Tired of working for peace and a better world to find out again and again that the powers-that-be don't really give a rat's ass?
Are you getting really fed up? Are you giving up?
DON'T!
Not now.
Not when YOU, as a SAN FRANCISCAN, can make a real positive difference in this year's elections!
Unlike most Americans who are told who they can vote for this coming November, YOU as a San Franciscan CAN tell the powers-that-be that this year you will do some of the choosing.
America's most beloved peace activist, Cindy Sheehan, made San Francisco her home and decided to run for Congress here because she knew that would be the best way to strike Bush and his gang of criminals.
We all know the story about how after her son Casey was killed in Iraq. Cindy camped out at Bush's ranch in Texas to demand answers which never came from him.
Few know, however, that she didn't stop at Crawford-- but instead turned to anyone who would listen to her pleas for help. For awhile, it seemed, the Democrats in Washington were listening.
But then, as the years rolled by, it became obvious that many of them were covering up for Bush and his gang. They were even helping him.
They promised America change while demanding loyalty... but meanwhile helped fund criminal wars, and became accessories to torture and the desecration of our Constitutional Rights.
Cindy did what any good patriot of conscience does when the cause is just but the door is forever locked.
She took on the powers-that-be and decided to give them a run for their money and influence. She openly challenged the system and decided the best way to cause change was to kick the door down!
Has it made a difference so far?
Maybe. Maybe not.
Recently, Nancy Pelosi (on "The View") uttered the previously unimaginable-- that she could conceive impeachment hearings against a president if the people had "the goods"on him.
(Do we have the goods on Bush? And has Pelosi helped hide those goods?)
**********
Cindy Sheehan recently turned in thousands of petition signatures supporting her listing on the ballot this November... but City Hall said many were no good.
She still has less than a week to make up the difference-- but it won't happen without YOUR help.
(Even though she recently turned in well over 10,000 signatures-- so many were rejected at City Hall that she still needs about a thousand.)
If you are a San Francisco voter, please drop in at 1260 Mission Street where Cindy Sheehan has her campaign headquarters. Please ask to sign her petition if you haven't already.
Please ask your friends and loved ones who vote to also drop by.
If you aren't a registered voter, Cindy has forms to help you get registered also.
Maybe you like Nancy Pelosi in Washington or maybe you think Cindy Sheehan's challenge of her is a big waste of time.
Is it right to send Pelosi back to Washington DC without a debate or without allowing her some real competition?
Pelosi has not met with any antiwar activists for years-- why should she later if she thinks her congressional seat belongs to her and not to the people she represents?
Allowing only Pelosi's name on the ballot (with her token Republican competitor) is no real race. It is not real democracy. Allowing Cindy Sheehan to challenge Pelosi can mean real democracy.
Do not forget that both the local Green and Peace and Freedom parties have endorsed Cindy Sheehan for Congress.
If you are a San Francisco Green or a member of San Francisco's Peace and Freedom Party you have no excuses for not signing Cindy's petition if you haven't already.
If you are a city supervisor who claims to be for peace and positive change-- you too have no excuses-- please call your supporters and ask them to sign for Cindy. San Francisco bedrock values of independence, magnanimity, and tolerance need to become the values of the nation. (You know it.)
To all: Please stop by Cindy's headquarters and ask to sign.
Cindy Sheehan's headquarters is easy to get to.
It is located at 1260 Mission Street between Eighth and Ninth Streets-- one block south of Market Street close to the Civic Center Bart Station.
The headquarters office will be open on Sunday, tomorrow, at 10 AM.
It will, of course, be open all week.
To call ahead for all office hours, directions, or questions, please call (415) 621-5027.
Want to know more about Cindy Sheehan?
Please visit her campaign website below.
Also, here is a recent video of her in Washington DC trying to help put impeachment "on the table": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd74U1kNZ8I
Thank you for reading this open letter-- and thank you for supporting democracy by signing cindy sheehan's petition.
Sincerely,
Robert B. Livingston
San Francisco
August 2, 2008
Dear brother and sister San Franciscans,
Tired of working for peace and a better world to find out again and again that the powers-that-be don't really give a rat's ass?
Are you getting really fed up? Are you giving up?
DON'T!
Not now.
Not when YOU, as a SAN FRANCISCAN, can make a real positive difference in this year's elections!
Unlike most Americans who are told who they can vote for this coming November, YOU as a San Franciscan CAN tell the powers-that-be that this year you will do some of the choosing.
America's most beloved peace activist, Cindy Sheehan, made San Francisco her home and decided to run for Congress here because she knew that would be the best way to strike Bush and his gang of criminals.
We all know the story about how after her son Casey was killed in Iraq. Cindy camped out at Bush's ranch in Texas to demand answers which never came from him.
Few know, however, that she didn't stop at Crawford-- but instead turned to anyone who would listen to her pleas for help. For awhile, it seemed, the Democrats in Washington were listening.
But then, as the years rolled by, it became obvious that many of them were covering up for Bush and his gang. They were even helping him.
They promised America change while demanding loyalty... but meanwhile helped fund criminal wars, and became accessories to torture and the desecration of our Constitutional Rights.
Cindy did what any good patriot of conscience does when the cause is just but the door is forever locked.
She took on the powers-that-be and decided to give them a run for their money and influence. She openly challenged the system and decided the best way to cause change was to kick the door down!
Has it made a difference so far?
Maybe. Maybe not.
Recently, Nancy Pelosi (on "The View") uttered the previously unimaginable-- that she could conceive impeachment hearings against a president if the people had "the goods"on him.
(Do we have the goods on Bush? And has Pelosi helped hide those goods?)
**********
Cindy Sheehan recently turned in thousands of petition signatures supporting her listing on the ballot this November... but City Hall said many were no good.
She still has less than a week to make up the difference-- but it won't happen without YOUR help.
(Even though she recently turned in well over 10,000 signatures-- so many were rejected at City Hall that she still needs about a thousand.)
If you are a San Francisco voter, please drop in at 1260 Mission Street where Cindy Sheehan has her campaign headquarters. Please ask to sign her petition if you haven't already.
Please ask your friends and loved ones who vote to also drop by.
If you aren't a registered voter, Cindy has forms to help you get registered also.
Maybe you like Nancy Pelosi in Washington or maybe you think Cindy Sheehan's challenge of her is a big waste of time.
Is it right to send Pelosi back to Washington DC without a debate or without allowing her some real competition?
Pelosi has not met with any antiwar activists for years-- why should she later if she thinks her congressional seat belongs to her and not to the people she represents?
Allowing only Pelosi's name on the ballot (with her token Republican competitor) is no real race. It is not real democracy. Allowing Cindy Sheehan to challenge Pelosi can mean real democracy.
Do not forget that both the local Green and Peace and Freedom parties have endorsed Cindy Sheehan for Congress.
If you are a San Francisco Green or a member of San Francisco's Peace and Freedom Party you have no excuses for not signing Cindy's petition if you haven't already.
If you are a city supervisor who claims to be for peace and positive change-- you too have no excuses-- please call your supporters and ask them to sign for Cindy. San Francisco bedrock values of independence, magnanimity, and tolerance need to become the values of the nation. (You know it.)
To all: Please stop by Cindy's headquarters and ask to sign.
Cindy Sheehan's headquarters is easy to get to.
It is located at 1260 Mission Street between Eighth and Ninth Streets-- one block south of Market Street close to the Civic Center Bart Station.
The headquarters office will be open on Sunday, tomorrow, at 10 AM.
It will, of course, be open all week.
To call ahead for all office hours, directions, or questions, please call (415) 621-5027.
Want to know more about Cindy Sheehan?
Please visit her campaign website below.
Also, here is a recent video of her in Washington DC trying to help put impeachment "on the table": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd74U1kNZ8I
Thank you for reading this open letter-- and thank you for supporting democracy by signing cindy sheehan's petition.
Sincerely,
Robert B. Livingston
San Francisco
For more information:
http://www.cindyforcongress.org/
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According to the May 19, 2008 County Registrationo report from the California Secretary of State at http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/15day_stwddirprim_08/county.pdf, San Francisco has 9,964 registered Greens, 1,615 Peace & Freedom Party members and 124,706 decline to state voters. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU, IF YOU HAVE NOT SIGNED CINDY'S PETITION, DO SO TODAY.
Then, we must ask, why didn't Cindy run on the Peace & Freedom or Green Party ticket? After all, if Ralph Nader has no problem running in the P&F primary and winning the presidential nomination, Cindy Sheehan, who has been endorsed by both P&F and the Greens, should have run on either party's ticket. It is almost impossible to run as an independent, ESPECIALLY IN ELECTION FRAUD SAN FRANCISCO. You all must have heard about that by now. Matt Gonzalez won the 2003 mayor's race but was defeated by Democrat Newsom's election fraud. Democrat Gavin Newsom is the nephew of Democrat Nancy Pelosi, Sheehan's potential opponent. The Democrats just committed election fraud in June 2008 to pass the latest 49er Stadium Swindle, Prop G. See http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2008/06/technical_difficulties_reporte_1.html
The first known most infamous election fraud since the 1970s was to promote the first 49er Stadium Swindle in June 1997. See: http://brasscheck.com/stadium/
This same Democratic Party used the CIA"s People's Temple to perpetrate election fraud in the 1970s. See
http://brasscheck.com/jonestown/
This same Democratic Party election fraud team re-selected Willie Brown over Tom Ammiano in 1999 for mayor.
This Democratic Party election fraud machine is already on the job, invalidating what are probably good signatures for Cindy Sheehan. All of you who thought it was such a wonderful idea for Cindy Sheehan to not run on a party ticket had better get out to EVERY SHOPPING DISTRICT AND EVERY POST OFFICE east of Twin Peaks. Have you done Cala Supermarket at California and Hyde, and the intersection of Polk and California? How about Whole Foods on Franklin and California? There is also a Safeway at Battery and Jackson and another at King and 4th Streets (end of the 30 Stockton bus line near the baseball stadium swindle). There is also a shopping center at Bay and Mason streets. There is a post office at Pine and Larkin, Haight and Clayton, and many more listed within 10 miles of 94101 at http://www.usps.com.
There are also some things we should all know about San Francisco voting. While there are 600,000 adults, we may see 360,000 voters in this high voter turnout presidential election, 15% of whom always vote Republican. However, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger won 29.67% of San Francisco's vote in 2006, a city that is officially 72% Democratic registration and usually gives 80% of its vote to the Democratic gubernatorial candidate. He was always a fascist; he never claimed to be anything else.
Also in 2006, Green Party candidate, Krissy Keefer, won 7% of the vote or 13,653 votes. Since P&F did not have a candidate, Keefer was the radical challenge to Pelosi who won 80% of the vote or 148,435 votes. The Republican Party won 10% of the vote or 19,800 votes and will have a candidate in November 2008. Of course, east of Twin Peaks, the 8th Congressional District, is only part of San Francisco, the larger part in terms of congressional districts. Jackie Speier represents the smaller western district 12 which includes San Mateo County. San Francisco election results may be found at: http://www.sfgov.org/site/elections_index.asp?id=61790
Each Congressional district has about 500,000 people, about 3/4 of whom are adults, or 375,000 adults. About 200,000 people voted in 2006 in the 8th Congressional district. WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMER THAT MOST AMERICANS DO NOT THINK ABOUT POLITICS AT ALL just as most of us do not think about football. Before anyone runs as an independent, they had better check the voting record in the area they choose to seek votes. San Francisco is no different from the rest of this backward country. Cindy Sheehan should know the mindset; she was once a non-thinking Democratic Party voter, simply voting for any Democrat as part of the family tradition.
It is obvious to me that the loud mouths pushed this "independent" nonsense; they had better get out there all this week, BEFORE THE OLYMPICS STARTS ON TV THIS FRIDAY, and get those signatures from EVERY SHOPPING DISTRICT AND EVERY POST OFFICE where you are likely to find San Francisco voters. And do not ever push this independent nonsense again when we have 2 radical parties in San Francisco, the Green aParty nd Peace & Freedom Party.
Then, we must ask, why didn't Cindy run on the Peace & Freedom or Green Party ticket? After all, if Ralph Nader has no problem running in the P&F primary and winning the presidential nomination, Cindy Sheehan, who has been endorsed by both P&F and the Greens, should have run on either party's ticket. It is almost impossible to run as an independent, ESPECIALLY IN ELECTION FRAUD SAN FRANCISCO. You all must have heard about that by now. Matt Gonzalez won the 2003 mayor's race but was defeated by Democrat Newsom's election fraud. Democrat Gavin Newsom is the nephew of Democrat Nancy Pelosi, Sheehan's potential opponent. The Democrats just committed election fraud in June 2008 to pass the latest 49er Stadium Swindle, Prop G. See http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2008/06/technical_difficulties_reporte_1.html
The first known most infamous election fraud since the 1970s was to promote the first 49er Stadium Swindle in June 1997. See: http://brasscheck.com/stadium/
This same Democratic Party used the CIA"s People's Temple to perpetrate election fraud in the 1970s. See
http://brasscheck.com/jonestown/
This same Democratic Party election fraud team re-selected Willie Brown over Tom Ammiano in 1999 for mayor.
This Democratic Party election fraud machine is already on the job, invalidating what are probably good signatures for Cindy Sheehan. All of you who thought it was such a wonderful idea for Cindy Sheehan to not run on a party ticket had better get out to EVERY SHOPPING DISTRICT AND EVERY POST OFFICE east of Twin Peaks. Have you done Cala Supermarket at California and Hyde, and the intersection of Polk and California? How about Whole Foods on Franklin and California? There is also a Safeway at Battery and Jackson and another at King and 4th Streets (end of the 30 Stockton bus line near the baseball stadium swindle). There is also a shopping center at Bay and Mason streets. There is a post office at Pine and Larkin, Haight and Clayton, and many more listed within 10 miles of 94101 at http://www.usps.com.
There are also some things we should all know about San Francisco voting. While there are 600,000 adults, we may see 360,000 voters in this high voter turnout presidential election, 15% of whom always vote Republican. However, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger won 29.67% of San Francisco's vote in 2006, a city that is officially 72% Democratic registration and usually gives 80% of its vote to the Democratic gubernatorial candidate. He was always a fascist; he never claimed to be anything else.
Also in 2006, Green Party candidate, Krissy Keefer, won 7% of the vote or 13,653 votes. Since P&F did not have a candidate, Keefer was the radical challenge to Pelosi who won 80% of the vote or 148,435 votes. The Republican Party won 10% of the vote or 19,800 votes and will have a candidate in November 2008. Of course, east of Twin Peaks, the 8th Congressional District, is only part of San Francisco, the larger part in terms of congressional districts. Jackie Speier represents the smaller western district 12 which includes San Mateo County. San Francisco election results may be found at: http://www.sfgov.org/site/elections_index.asp?id=61790
Each Congressional district has about 500,000 people, about 3/4 of whom are adults, or 375,000 adults. About 200,000 people voted in 2006 in the 8th Congressional district. WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMER THAT MOST AMERICANS DO NOT THINK ABOUT POLITICS AT ALL just as most of us do not think about football. Before anyone runs as an independent, they had better check the voting record in the area they choose to seek votes. San Francisco is no different from the rest of this backward country. Cindy Sheehan should know the mindset; she was once a non-thinking Democratic Party voter, simply voting for any Democrat as part of the family tradition.
It is obvious to me that the loud mouths pushed this "independent" nonsense; they had better get out there all this week, BEFORE THE OLYMPICS STARTS ON TV THIS FRIDAY, and get those signatures from EVERY SHOPPING DISTRICT AND EVERY POST OFFICE where you are likely to find San Francisco voters. And do not ever push this independent nonsense again when we have 2 radical parties in San Francisco, the Green aParty nd Peace & Freedom Party.
For more information:
http://brasscheck.com/stadium/
Let her run in some
Congressional district
where the incumbent is Republican.
NOT in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district!
Congressional district
where the incumbent is Republican.
NOT in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district!
These signatures are all in lieu of payment of the filing fee and the difference between signatures and the fee can be paid for. In the front of the line for payment of the fee MUST BE THE LOUD MOUTHS who pushed the independent stupidity, demonstrating that they did not read the above election statistics. ALMOST 30% OF SAN FRANCISCO VOTED FOR FASCISM, NAMELY NAZI SCHWARZENEGGER IN 2006. AND WE HAVE A FASCIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY MACHINE COMMITTING ELECTION FRAUD EVERYTIME THEY FEEL THE NEED TO PROTECT THEIR GREED. ELECTION FRAUD IS FASCISM. NANCY PELOSI IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S ELECTION FRAUD MACHINE. Now you come with an "independent" candidate whose base can only be P&F and the Greens, turn in 13,000 when you should have turned in 20,000 signatures so you would have at least 10,000 good signatures. So, those of us who are concerned about stopping fascism in the USA are faced with dealing with the stupidity of the "independent" loud mouths. If you have the money to pay, please RUN TO CINDY'S HEADQUARTERS IMMEDIATELY at 1260 Mission between 8th and 9th Streets.
WE ARE FACED WITH SERIOUS FASCISM IN THE USA, including but not limited to election fraud, paramilitary gangs like Blackwater paid for by the CIA-capitalist class, destruction of the First and Fourth Amendments, spying on the Internet, phones and Emails, supported by Pelosi & Obama and the Republicans, and an economic crisis not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s, a lot like Nazi Germany. WE CANNOT AFFORD "MISTAKES" LIKE HAVING CINDY MISS BEING ON THE BALLOT BECAUSE OF STUPID "INDEPENDENT" LOUD MOUTHS WHO DID NOT DO THEIR HOMEWORK.
This is the right district, WHEN YOU HAVE DEMOCRATS LIKE NANCY PELOSI TELL US THAT SHE SEES NO REASON TO IMPEACH REPUBLICAN GEORGE BUSH, it means she and her fellow Democrats are working together to make themselves richer (Pelosi is a millionaire who also has her money based on oil, like Bush). Obviously, Pelosi is not mentally backward, so the only reason for such a statement is she financially benefits from Bush's warmongering abroad and fascism at home. So, for all you Democrats who have difficulty in understanding why Bush should be impeached and do not benefit from Bush's warmongering and fascism, here are some reasons:
1. Perpetrating election fraud to become president in 2000 and 2004.
2. Perpetrating the 9/11 Inside Job, along with his fellow perpetrators, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and Giuliani. THESE ARE THE TERRORISTS AMONG US. They perpetrated this Reichstag Fire for the same reason the Nazis burned down the German government building: To promote war and fascism to maximize the profits of the capitalist class. We knew it was an INSIDE JOB as we watched it on TV BECAUSE THERE WAS NO AIR DEFENSE. That alone is more than enough evidence to demonstrate 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB. If you need more, you saw the CONTROLLED DEMOLITION of the Twin Towers and Building 7. One of the substances used was thermate, a military substance. This entire operation was carried out by the US military AS ONLY THE US GOVERNMENT HAD THE MOTIVE, MEANS AND OPPORTUNITY TO PERPETRATE THE 9/11 INSIDE JOB. The planes were on remote control guided by the US Air Force. One plane ended at the Cleveland airport; the hole in the ground Pennsylvania contained no bodies, said the coroner. The Pentagon was damaged on the side that was under construction by construction explosives and possibly a missile, killing bookkeepers who were about to blow the whistle on the massive till-tapping by Bush & Company of our national treasury by Bush & his Gang, named above, to enrich themselves and their cronies, the reason they put themselves in office.
3. Perpetrating the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
4. Supporting the illegal occupation of Palestine, in particular the West Bank and Gaza, and the illegal racist wall, by the US military base called Israel.
5. Allowing Israel and US troops to use depleted uranium, white phosphorous, napalm and other illegal and deadly substances in their illegal genocide operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
6. Destroying the US public school system with the phony No Child Left Behind program that makes the testing companies richer and does nothing to educate anyone, a program ENTHUSIASTICALLY supported by Nancy Pelosi. For more on the horrors of the American school system, read The Measure of America, by Sarah Burd-Sharps, et al, (2008: Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-15495-6).
7. Attacking women’s right to abortion, perpetrating the death penalty, attempting to destroy Social Security, destroying public housing, refusing to guarantee decent housing for all, refusing to establish a universal healthcare system guaranteeing free medical and dental care for all paid for with our tax dollars, refusing to increase the progressive income tax on the rich, those who make over $200,000 a year from all sources, so we have a modern, industrialized society, all to the detriment of our society, making it the most backward country in the industrialized world, and most areas of the country no longer quality as being part of the industrialized world.
8. Promoting torture and murder at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and secret prisons on Navy ships and in concentration camps around the world.
9. Promoting paramilitary private murderous gangs like Blackwater, currently directly under the State Department-CIA's direction, just like the fascist gangs that roamed Germany before the Nazis gook power, all to destroy any workingclass organizations in Germany as the economic crisis worsened.
10. Perpetrating genocide in New Orleans with and after Hurricane Katrina by deliberately holding back any help for AN ENTIRE WEEK, and then sending in the Blackwater thugs, who further terrorized the majority black community of New Orleans.
Cindy Sheehan has to be on the ballot. Do not ever make the "mistake" of running a candidate as an "independent" again. Our lives are on the line. Fascism is breathing down our necks!
WE ARE FACED WITH SERIOUS FASCISM IN THE USA, including but not limited to election fraud, paramilitary gangs like Blackwater paid for by the CIA-capitalist class, destruction of the First and Fourth Amendments, spying on the Internet, phones and Emails, supported by Pelosi & Obama and the Republicans, and an economic crisis not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s, a lot like Nazi Germany. WE CANNOT AFFORD "MISTAKES" LIKE HAVING CINDY MISS BEING ON THE BALLOT BECAUSE OF STUPID "INDEPENDENT" LOUD MOUTHS WHO DID NOT DO THEIR HOMEWORK.
This is the right district, WHEN YOU HAVE DEMOCRATS LIKE NANCY PELOSI TELL US THAT SHE SEES NO REASON TO IMPEACH REPUBLICAN GEORGE BUSH, it means she and her fellow Democrats are working together to make themselves richer (Pelosi is a millionaire who also has her money based on oil, like Bush). Obviously, Pelosi is not mentally backward, so the only reason for such a statement is she financially benefits from Bush's warmongering abroad and fascism at home. So, for all you Democrats who have difficulty in understanding why Bush should be impeached and do not benefit from Bush's warmongering and fascism, here are some reasons:
1. Perpetrating election fraud to become president in 2000 and 2004.
2. Perpetrating the 9/11 Inside Job, along with his fellow perpetrators, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and Giuliani. THESE ARE THE TERRORISTS AMONG US. They perpetrated this Reichstag Fire for the same reason the Nazis burned down the German government building: To promote war and fascism to maximize the profits of the capitalist class. We knew it was an INSIDE JOB as we watched it on TV BECAUSE THERE WAS NO AIR DEFENSE. That alone is more than enough evidence to demonstrate 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB. If you need more, you saw the CONTROLLED DEMOLITION of the Twin Towers and Building 7. One of the substances used was thermate, a military substance. This entire operation was carried out by the US military AS ONLY THE US GOVERNMENT HAD THE MOTIVE, MEANS AND OPPORTUNITY TO PERPETRATE THE 9/11 INSIDE JOB. The planes were on remote control guided by the US Air Force. One plane ended at the Cleveland airport; the hole in the ground Pennsylvania contained no bodies, said the coroner. The Pentagon was damaged on the side that was under construction by construction explosives and possibly a missile, killing bookkeepers who were about to blow the whistle on the massive till-tapping by Bush & Company of our national treasury by Bush & his Gang, named above, to enrich themselves and their cronies, the reason they put themselves in office.
3. Perpetrating the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
4. Supporting the illegal occupation of Palestine, in particular the West Bank and Gaza, and the illegal racist wall, by the US military base called Israel.
5. Allowing Israel and US troops to use depleted uranium, white phosphorous, napalm and other illegal and deadly substances in their illegal genocide operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
6. Destroying the US public school system with the phony No Child Left Behind program that makes the testing companies richer and does nothing to educate anyone, a program ENTHUSIASTICALLY supported by Nancy Pelosi. For more on the horrors of the American school system, read The Measure of America, by Sarah Burd-Sharps, et al, (2008: Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0-231-15495-6).
7. Attacking women’s right to abortion, perpetrating the death penalty, attempting to destroy Social Security, destroying public housing, refusing to guarantee decent housing for all, refusing to establish a universal healthcare system guaranteeing free medical and dental care for all paid for with our tax dollars, refusing to increase the progressive income tax on the rich, those who make over $200,000 a year from all sources, so we have a modern, industrialized society, all to the detriment of our society, making it the most backward country in the industrialized world, and most areas of the country no longer quality as being part of the industrialized world.
8. Promoting torture and murder at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and secret prisons on Navy ships and in concentration camps around the world.
9. Promoting paramilitary private murderous gangs like Blackwater, currently directly under the State Department-CIA's direction, just like the fascist gangs that roamed Germany before the Nazis gook power, all to destroy any workingclass organizations in Germany as the economic crisis worsened.
10. Perpetrating genocide in New Orleans with and after Hurricane Katrina by deliberately holding back any help for AN ENTIRE WEEK, and then sending in the Blackwater thugs, who further terrorized the majority black community of New Orleans.
Cindy Sheehan has to be on the ballot. Do not ever make the "mistake" of running a candidate as an "independent" again. Our lives are on the line. Fascism is breathing down our necks!
Yes, we shouldn't challenge Czar , oops I mean, Speaker Pelosi. She is afterall Speaker of the House. Hey, we've got power. And even though she has gone against our wishes and given Bush almost everything he has wanted and has made a mockery of the constitution by taking impeachment off the table - we should support her because she is from San Francisco and she is important and she makes us look important. Give me a break. We wouldn't need a challenge if Pelosi had truly represented the district by taking an agressive approach towards Bush. Now, she won't even hold town hall meetings with her constituents because she doesn't want to face them and answer to them.
What gives her the right to take impeachment off the table? Who is she - and what did she know about torture? Please answer that? Anyone with a brain would realize this woman is a danger to our constitution and the rights of all americans. We need to get her out of there ASAP. Vote Cindy Sheehan.
What gives her the right to take impeachment off the table? Who is she - and what did she know about torture? Please answer that? Anyone with a brain would realize this woman is a danger to our constitution and the rights of all americans. We need to get her out of there ASAP. Vote Cindy Sheehan.
Let's remember that Ms. Pelosi rose to her current position by being an operative, a player, in her corrupt party. Like Jerry Brown, Art Torres, and Phil Angelides, she helped rig the system to make it difficult to impossible for independents to get on the ballot or for third party candidates to compete. We are excluded from 'debates', denied equal media coverage, and outspent by the corporate funded republicrats. They can purge voter rolls and throw a party off the ballot (like P&F) or force candidates like Ralph Nader to fight them in court when they use illegal and unethical tactics to challenge his ballot access (2004). Sheehan should be commended for choosing to run as an independent, but her supporters should know the system is rigged against her and even if she turns in 20,000 valid signatures, the unDemocratic Party machine will try to bankrupt her candidacy through legal challenges or outright fraud.
Message sent from Cindy's Campaign today:
A Call to all San Francisco Residents.......CRUNCH TIME.....
We have until this friday August 8th to turn in 2,000 additional signatures. On July 30th we turned in 10898 sinatures only needing 7694. The board of elections invalidated 43 percent of those signatures leaving us in need of 1693 more valid signatures. Let's not let them silence our voices.
Please call Dede at 415-621-5027 if you can help.
http://www.cindyforcongress.org
A Call to all San Francisco Residents.......CRUNCH TIME.....
We have until this friday August 8th to turn in 2,000 additional signatures. On July 30th we turned in 10898 sinatures only needing 7694. The board of elections invalidated 43 percent of those signatures leaving us in need of 1693 more valid signatures. Let's not let them silence our voices.
Please call Dede at 415-621-5027 if you can help.
http://www.cindyforcongress.org
For more information:
http://www.cindyforcongress.org
We need your help. Of the 10898 signatures we turned in last tuesday close to 5,000 were invalidated.
We need 1694 additional valid signatures to get Cindy on the ballot and we need to accomplish this huge task by 3pm this friday. In order to cover another outrageous invalidation rate we need to collect 3,000 signatures.
Please....anytime you all can give us is crucial. We have our weekly volunteer meeting tonight at 6:30pm (tuesday). We plan to send teams to the streets tonight.
If you have either the old In Lieu of Filing Petitions or the Old
Nomination Petition please come in and get the new Supplemental Nomination Petitions. The old petitions will not be accepted by the Department of Elections.
The goal is within our grasp...we can't let it slip through our
hands......
Please call Dede at 415-621-5027 and let us know WHEN you can help.
[Headquarters at 1260 Mission Street]
We need 1694 additional valid signatures to get Cindy on the ballot and we need to accomplish this huge task by 3pm this friday. In order to cover another outrageous invalidation rate we need to collect 3,000 signatures.
Please....anytime you all can give us is crucial. We have our weekly volunteer meeting tonight at 6:30pm (tuesday). We plan to send teams to the streets tonight.
If you have either the old In Lieu of Filing Petitions or the Old
Nomination Petition please come in and get the new Supplemental Nomination Petitions. The old petitions will not be accepted by the Department of Elections.
The goal is within our grasp...we can't let it slip through our
hands......
Please call Dede at 415-621-5027 and let us know WHEN you can help.
[Headquarters at 1260 Mission Street]
"Showing his bare knuckles
In first campaign, Obama revealed hard-edged, uncompromising side in eliminating party rivals"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0704030881apr04,0,6468332.story
He knocked ALL his opponents off the ballot, including the beloved 'elder stateswoman' who had befriended and recommended him, getting him onto the ballot in the first place, Alice Palmer.
Obama did this by challenging ALL the signatures of ALL his opponents.
In first campaign, Obama revealed hard-edged, uncompromising side in eliminating party rivals"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0704030881apr04,0,6468332.story
He knocked ALL his opponents off the ballot, including the beloved 'elder stateswoman' who had befriended and recommended him, getting him onto the ballot in the first place, Alice Palmer.
Obama did this by challenging ALL the signatures of ALL his opponents.
Read all about it!
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/08/18524193.php
San Franciscans care-- and we have a chance to remind the rest of the country a thing or two about what America should really stand up for.
We have had enough of all these years of government secrecy, lies, theft, torture, and mayhem.
We want representative and accountable government, peace, and a healthy and happy world. We want a real democracy.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/08/18524193.php
San Franciscans care-- and we have a chance to remind the rest of the country a thing or two about what America should really stand up for.
We have had enough of all these years of government secrecy, lies, theft, torture, and mayhem.
We want representative and accountable government, peace, and a healthy and happy world. We want a real democracy.
For more information:
http://www.cindyforcongress.org/
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!
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