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| Pro-Troop Group Wants Sheehan's Land |
| 2007-06-01 |
| Days after Cindy Sheehan announced she was stepping down as the face of the anti-war movement, a pro-troop organization said Friday it plans to buy her protest site outside President Bush's ranch. But Sheehan doesn't want to sell to just anyone. "It'll be a cold day in hell before she sells it to them," her sister, Dede Miller, told The Associated Press. "She'll sell it to them for $5 million." Move America Forward wants to place a monument to the troops on the 5-acre site in Crawford, about 100 miles south of Fort Worth. "There's definitely symbolism behind being able to take that land and being able to put up a monument that supports our troops," said Robert Dixon, executive director of the Sacramento, Calif.-based group. "It's purely symbolic. We're not going to be holding any rallies there." Sheehan, who was unavailable for comment, plans to sell the land on eBay as early as next week with a starting bid of $80,000, Miller said. Since buying the property last year for $52,500, Sheehan's group has made many improvements, including putting in gravel roads, clearing brush and planting gardens, Miller said. Dixon said that after Sheehan's announcement Monday, he was flooded with e-mails from Move America Forward members who thought the group should buy the land. The nonprofit organization had planned to erect a monument to honor U.S. troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, possibly in Crawford, so "we figured this is the perfect thing to do," he said... Sheehan probably doesn't know, but it is highly illegal to refuse to sell land for sale in the US to someone with the money to buy it. The Fair Housing Act includes vacant land, and is viciously enforced by HUD. And no matter what reason she might give, such as "politics", the legal *assumption* would be that she is doing it because of race, religion, or other such illegal reasons. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #8 What's going on? Being sent to the Roadside but the comment still went through. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-01 18:33 |
| #7 Why give her a profit? Wait till she ignores paying property taxes and the county seizes it for a tax saele <- (Roadside America?! Glad I didn't write benis). |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-01 18:32 |
| #6 Why give her a profeet? Wait till she ignores paying property taxes and the county seizes it for a tax sale. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-01 18:30 |
| #5 Why give her a profit? Wait till she ignores paying property taxes and the county seizes it for a tax sale. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-06-01 18:29 |
| #4 Oh, please put the land on the market and then refuse to sell to a ready, willing, and able buyer. Even better, the pro-troops group should have a several people, each with their own real estate agent, make a legitimate offer (in writing, of course), one at a time. If I understand it correctly, if she refuses, she will still owe the buyer's real estate agent (and her own) their commission. Every time. :-D Of course, she's special - laws obviously don't apply to her. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-01 17:52 |
| #3 Dixon's plan seems like a great one. Yup, tu, you're right. An excerpt from a 7/28/06 by KXXV Channel 25 report as posted on Ankle Biting Pundits: Peace Supporter, Gerry Fonseca, says he purchased the 5-acre parcel, which cost more than $52,000. It was bought with the money from her son, Casey’s, life insurance policy. “I doubt they would have sold her the property if she tried to buy it herself,” said Foncseca. “I feel deceived,” said Celia Ramsey, who sold the land to Cindy Sheehan through a third party. She talked to News Channel 25 exclusively on the matter. “I would have never sold it to Sheehan. Nobody wants them here.” The Ramsey’s claim Fonseca told them he was an evacuee from Hurricane Katrina. Fonseca told News Channel 25 he “apologized to the Ramsey’s for the inconvenience, but we (Gold Star Families For Peace) are going to do everything in our power to not disturb them.” Ramsey told News Channel 25, she plans on talking to a lawyer over the matter. Devious bitch. What goes around comes around. |
| Posted by: GK 2007-06-01 11:56 |
| #2 "It'll be a cold day in hell before she sells it to them," her sister, Dede Miller, told The Associated Press. "She'll sell it to them for $5 million." Well at least we've established the price of a cold day in hell. As I remember, wasn't Ma Sheehan a bit devious in the way she originally acquired this property? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-06-01 10:44 |
| #1 Hell, the city can use that eminent domain thing to take her land for the memorial. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2007-06-01 10:27 |