January 30, 2006
Cindy Sheehan Considering Run for Feinstein's Senate Seat
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
BuzzFlash heard that Cindy Sheehan was considering a run for the Senate, so we asked her about it. Here's her response:
I am seriously considering challenging Senator Dianne Feinstein for her Senate seat in California as a Democratic candidate in the primaries.
She has lost touch with the people of California and represents special interests more than her constituents.
I also think she is bad for peace. She voted for the war, she consistently votes for the funding to keep the troops in harm's way and to kill innocent Iraqis. Even though this occupation of Iraq is based on proven lies and deceptions of the administration, her continued silence on the matter is morally indefensable and abhorrent. People die everyday for nothing, including my son, Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan while she says that bringing the troops home now would be "irresponsible."
I believe keeping our troops there in harm's way, killing innocent Iraqis, and destroying their country is irresponsible.
It is time for her to be held accountable for her support of George Bush's war and his horrible nominations such as: Condoleezza Rice and John Negroponte.
Might we also add that Senator Feinstein's husband, Richard Blum, is a director of URS Corp., a military contractor which won a $600 million dollar Army contract in April 2003 and "In February [2003], the firm won an army engineering and logistics contract that could bring in $3.1 billion during the next eight years."
Quite coincidentally, she and Richard recently purchased a $16.5 million mansion in San Francisco.
We're not saying Feinstein is making political decisions for her constituents, which are not in her constituents' best interests, yet which are in she and her husband's financial best interest, but wouldn't a primary fight shed more light on that?
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One other interesting connection from that SF Chronicle article: In 2002, URS bought it's EG&G division from The Carlyle Group, the defense contractor (among other businesses) profiting handsomely from Bush's "War on Terror" and connected directly to Bush (held a board position in a Carlyle's Caterair), his daddy, his daddy's former Secretary of State, James Baker, and, until just after September 11, 2001, relatives of Osama bin Laden.
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