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Anti-war mum Sheehan to run against US Speaker Pelosi

Article from: Agence France-Presse
July 24, 2007

Melbourne Herald Sun

US peace activist Cindy Sheehan has vowed to stand for election against top
Democrat Nancy Pelosi in 2008, over her refusal to launch an impeachment
drive against President George W. Bush.

Ms Sheehan, who lost her US soldier son, Casey, in Iraq and became a
figurehead for the anti-war movement, has vowed to eject the Democratic
leader of the House of Representatives from her seat in California.

"If Nancy Pelosi doesn't do her constitutionally mandated job by midnight
tonight, tomorrow I will announce that I'm going to run against her," Ms
Sheehan said after a cross-country trip with supporters.

"Not only am I going to run against her, but I will beat her."

Ms Sheehan, who has spent weeks camped outside Mr Bush's Texas ranch in
protest against the war, delivered her threat before marching from Arlington
military cemetery, outside Washington to Capitol Hill.

At the House of Representatives' Rayburn building, she met Democratic House
Judiciary chairman John Conyers to tell him a million people had signed her
petition demanding impeachment proceedings over the war.

After the meeting, Ms Sheehan and another 50 activists were arrested for
staging a sit-in in the halls of the Rayburn building, her followers said.

Despite demands from grass-roots Democratic activists for Mr Bush to be
impeached over Iraq, Democratic leaders in Congress have shown little
enthusiasm for such a move.

On Sunday, Democratic senator Russ Feingold said he would introduce two
censure motions, a lesser non-binding device than impeachment, against Mr
Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other White House officials.

Under US law, the House is the only body that can impeach, or lay formal
charges of treason or criminality against a president or other elected
official.

After impeachment, the official must face a trial in the Senate, and there
must be a two-thirds majority vote in the chamber to remove the accused
official from office.