http://www.ballot-access.org/…

According to the campaign website, Cindy Sheehan has qualified for the ballot as an independent against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in California’s 8th district.

An email sent this afternoon to supporters says she turned in over 20,000 signatures with at least 10,198 qualifying.

Sheehan is the first independent House candidate to qualify for the California ballot since 1996. California’s requirement for independent candidates for U.S. House is the 4th most difficult in the nation (only Georgia, Illinois, and North Carolina have more severe requirements).

She has the endorsement of the local Peace and Freedom Party and Green Party.

Are her policies better then Pelosi’s? Not by much but at least she’s anti-war and an outsider.

http://www.sfgate.com/…

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan wants to snatch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat from her in November, but first she’s going to need the help - and signatures - of 10,198 friends and supporters.Sheehan was at San Francisco City Hall on Friday to take out papers for her independent run for Congress, but without those signatures from voters in the district, her name won’t show up on the ballot.

“It’s an uphill battle,” said Sheehan, who vowed to run against Pelosi in July after the speaker refused to start impeachment proceedings against President George Bush. “But I’m excited about the signature-gathering process. It’s going to be an opportunity to talk to people about our campaign.”

I’ve no real clue as to her platform but given she was so adored for a time by the Democrats and lefties I suspect we’d not see eye to eye on a lot of things. However, I supporter her fully in her race. I’d love to see some polls of Pelosi’s district assessing her approval ratings. While the D’s and R’s are at each other’s throats both internally and externally the independents and 3rd party members will gain ground and hopefully… if for no other reason, like finding principles, this will move the major parties to take less fascist positions. Or in the least cause so much strife nothing gets done.

http://www.reuters.com/…

Calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan and 45 fellow Iraq war protesters were arrested on Monday after they refused to leave a U.S. lawmaker’s office and adjoining hallway, authorities said.

Before police escorted her away, Sheehan, who emerged as a leading peace activist after her son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004, announced what she had earlier suggested — that she would be a candidate for Congress next year.

Sheehan said she would challenge House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat. Pelosi has refused calls to start impeachment of Bush and Cheney for what critics charge was misleading the United States into war.

As I reported here I’m all for her running. She has been screwed by both major parties and the 2008 House race against Pelosi could get very interesting.

http://www.breitbart.com/…

Cindy Sheehan, the soldier’s mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to seek House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.

Sheehan, who has never held political office, recently said that she was leaving the Democratic Party because it “caved” in to the president. Last week, she announced her caravan to Washington, an undertaking she calls the “people’s accountability movement.”

I fully support her and wish her the best. However she remains ignorant or delusional WRT the Democrats actions/plans. They didn’t cave… they did exactly what they planned. They played the anti-war card to help them get into Congress (and they hope the presidency in 2008) and did little once in office that would upset their power or make too big a wave. The R’s and D’s are two sides of the same coin. The center of both parties are practically the same. When it comes down to it they are like Edmund Burke. They will support an issue as long as it doesn’t threaten their establishment and comfort. They hold no real convictions. They go with the ebb and flow of public opinion which they believe will get them or keep them in office. I’m going to bet that Pelosi and the D’s in the House won’t impeach Bush. If they do I’m ready to argue that all of those in Congress who voted for the undeclared war should be brought up on the same charges. They gave the executive branch the power and money to carry it out. They skirt the issue by claiming he has overstepped his bounds but they can only do this because they didn’t require an official declaration of war. Sheehan’s complaints about the Lewis Libby commute are weak. I fail to see how it’s any worse then many which Clinton did or many other presidents. Doesn’t make this one right but it’s hardly an impeachable offense… in fact it’s the Presidents prerogative. In the least it probably saves the tax payers money.

http://www.cnn.com/…

http://blogs.usatoday.com/…

Writing that “I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party” but became a target of attacks from liberals when she “started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party”

What a surprise. That’s politics.