THEIR goes GW 's 'hood

[booksbenji]

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/cindy-sheehan-buys-property-in-crawford/20060727133509990008?ncid=NWS00010000000001

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[10thzodiac]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40081

[booksbenji]

Story last updated at 5:45 a.m. Saturday, July 29, 2006
Crawford residents upset about protester Sheehan's land purchase


CRAWFORD (AP) - Like many folks in President Bush's adopted hometown, 83-year-old Robert Westerfield isn't exactly rolling out the welcome mat for the town's newest resident, war protester Cindy Sheehan.

"I'd wish they'd go away and never come back," Westerfield, a lifelong Crawford resident, said Friday while sitting on a bench outside a gas station on Main Street. "I wish she'd stay away. Crawford's a Republican town, and she's a dumb Democrat."

Sheehan, whose monthlong war protest near Bush's ranch last summer attracted more than 10,000 demonstrators, recently bankrolled the purchase of a 5-acre parcel near downtown to be used for future protests, including one next month.

The group said it outgrew its 1-acre lot provided by a sympathetic landowner about a mile from Bush's ranch, where several hundred demonstrators returned to camp over Thanksgiving and Easter.

Now many of the 700 residents fear that the traffic congestion, noise from rallies and odor from portable toilets - complaints from county residents near the other campsite - will affect those closer to town.

"When it's here, it affects a different set of people," Teresa Bowdoin said.

Gerry Fonseca, a Vietnam veteran who attended the protests in August and April, returned to Crawford in June to help the group look for property.

Fonseca said he doubts that any Crawford landowner would have sold to Sheehan or other protesters, so he didn't reveal his connection. Fonseca, who lost his Slidell, La., home in Hurricane Katrina, told sellers about that part of his life and that he wanted to build.

He bought the $52,500 lot in mid-July, using insurance money that Sheehan received after her oldest son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004.

Fonseca revealed the plans to his new next-door neighbor while seeking permission for electric lines to be strung 160 feet across the neighbor's property. Fonseca said the man initially agreed but then refused after others found out and became angry that the lot would be used as the new war protest site.

[booksbenji]

Story last updated at 5:45 a.m. Saturday, July 29, 2006
Crawford residents upset about protester Sheehan's land purchase


CRAWFORD (AP) - Like many folks in President Bush's adopted hometown, 83-year-old Robert Westerfield isn't exactly rolling out the welcome mat for the town's newest resident, war protester Cindy Sheehan.

"I'd wish they'd go away and never come back," Westerfield, a lifelong Crawford resident, said Friday while sitting on a bench outside a gas station on Main Street. "I wish she'd stay away. Crawford's a Republican town, and she's a dumb Democrat."

Sheehan, whose monthlong war protest near Bush's ranch last summer attracted more than 10,000 demonstrators, recently bankrolled the purchase of a 5-acre parcel near downtown to be used for future protests, including one next month.

The group said it outgrew its 1-acre lot provided by a sympathetic landowner about a mile from Bush's ranch, where several hundred demonstrators returned to camp over Thanksgiving and Easter.

Now many of the 700 residents fear that the traffic congestion, noise from rallies and odor from portable toilets - complaints from county residents near the other campsite - will affect those closer to town.

"When it's here, it affects a different set of people," Teresa Bowdoin said.

Gerry Fonseca, a Vietnam veteran who attended the protests in August and April, returned to Crawford in June to help the group look for property.

Fonseca said he doubts that any Crawford landowner would have sold to Sheehan or other protesters, so he didn't reveal his connection. Fonseca, who lost his Slidell, La., home in Hurricane Katrina, told sellers about that part of his life and that he wanted to build.

He bought the $52,500 lot in mid-July, using insurance money that Sheehan received after her oldest son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004.

Fonseca revealed the plans to his new next-door neighbor while seeking permission for electric lines to be strung 160 feet across the neighbor's property. Fonseca said the man initially agreed but then refused after others found out and became angry that the lot would be used as the new war protest site.


Source: :thumbup: (http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/072906/sta_072906094.shtml)

[booksbenji]

it never happened or ask that it be deleted :bunny: :devious:

[yellowwing]

it never happened or ask that it be deleted :bunny: :devious:
The Onion is 100% Satire. Remember the Supreme Court case of Falwell v Flint? Satire has been around our Golden Shores since you-know-who was a Corporal.

[10thzodiac]

it never happened or ask that it be deleted :devious:

And here I thought it was the real deal, thanks for putting me straight books! They ought to ban that site!:devious: "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

SF:thumbup:

[10thzodiac]

The Onion is 100% Satire. Remember the Supreme Court case of Falwell v Flint? Satire has been around our Golden Shores since you-know-who was a Corporal.

I didn't know Columbus was a corporal :D now that's satire...

"The white man has made many promises but only kept one, he promised to take our land and he did" ~ Red Cloud

[booksbenji]

has not been a Press conference from Crawford since April. 10th Z, ck ur site before posting and make sure they are legit. :D

[10thzodiac]

has not been a Press conference from Crawford since April. 10th Z, ck ur site before posting and make sure they are legit.

They could of fooled me, glad someone is on the ball around here. Maybe because it is part of my Yahoo home page content, that I got sucked in, hmmm?

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