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2006-07-29 Home Front: Culture Wars

Texas Town Disturbed by Sheehan, Protests

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Posted by ryuge 2006-07-29 07:09|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 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.

Methinks I smell a con man. But seeing she's the potential victim, I don't particularly care...

Posted by tu3031 2006-07-29 09:58|| 2006-07-29 09:58|| Front Page Top

#2 'he didn't reveal his connection' - I'm not a lawyer, but could the sale be voided due to fraudulent conveyance?

Posted by Raj 2006-07-29 10:04|| 2006-07-29 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 One of Cindy's groovy entourage will be caught in possession of pot on the grounds, and the confiscation proceedings will promptly begin...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2006-07-29 11:13|| 2006-07-29 11:13|| Front Page Top

#4 "...some protesters may return to Sheehan's original site because it is considered "the soul of this movement."

That and nothing grabs headlines like getting arrested for "civil disobedience action".

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-07-29 12:11|| 2006-07-29 12:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Raj, there's nothing wrong with using an agent to buy property for you so as to obscure the identity of the true buyer. Happens all the time in the business world.

Though if she was taken to the cleaners in the exchange it wouldn't bother me but so much ...

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-07-29 13:24|| 2006-07-29 13:24|| Front Page Top

#6 That's how Rockefeller bought Colonial Williamsburg.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-29 13:42|| 2006-07-29 13:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Before the county starts allowing all of these large scale protests, they need to look at the health facilities and emergency services available. To be able to have rally's the size Sheehan wants, it would seem these services need to be in place. Not to mention the added police protection.
Who will be paying for all of these extra services? The residents?
Me thinks her rights are trampling all over the locals. Where is this fair.
What a b****.

Posted by JAN 2006-07-29 20:50|| 2006-07-29 20:50|| Front Page Top

#8 I wish I could find the link to where she says that when she first came to Crawford she couldn't understand why anyone would want to live there, but now she has come to appreciate it.

The thin end of the wedge? Turn her into a Texan yet.

Posted by KBK 2006-07-29 23:00|| 2006-07-29 23:00|| Front Page Top

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