Cindy’s Sockpuppet
Oh my. This just keeps getting better! Via Hot Air, it appears that Cindy Sheehan used a front person to buy the land. According to the woman who sold the land, a man bought the land after telling a sob story about being a Katrina victim looking to make a new start.
Rumor has it that Cindy will be building a new theme park on the land which may be called Stalkerland or possibly Six Bags Over Crawford. Cindy celebrated the deal by making half a side of beef into a smoothie, in strict compliance with her fast.
Hat Tip, Confederate Yankee. (Damn, Bob, don't you need a license to carry a picture like that? It's lethal, man).
UPDATE: More on the pleasant treatment Cindy gives to people who do favors for her from the Dallas Fort Worth Star-Telegram. (Newspaper title corrected per comment)
The relationship began to sour somewhat, he said, when he recently learned on the group's Web site that protesters planned to return to Crawford in August. He said he did not agree to let them use the land at that time because it coincided with his family's plans to hunt doves. He said he also did not want Sheehan to use his property when Bush was at his ranch. "I just didn't want his vacation to be interrupted. It was out of respect for the president," Mattlage said.
He said he eventually agreed to let Gold Star Families for Peace use his land in August but only with the understanding that, because of the expected huge crowds, liability insurance costs were going to increase significantly to between $5,500 and $6,000. Mattlage said that, on the advice of his lawyer, he also told the protest group to sign a "hold harmless" agreement that would further free him of liability if something went wrong.
In a newsletter e-mailed to Mattlage and protest organizers on June 23, Sheehan told Mattlage, "I cannot in good faith accept the terms that you and your lawyers are holding us hostage with. … I fear we will have to find alternatives to using your land … "
Mattlage, in a phone interview, said Sheehan had initially agreed to pay the higher insurance costs. It made him mad, he said, when she later sent an e-mail to organizers suggesting he was holding her "hostage."
Mattlage sent his one-time friend an e-mail back that said, "You can go away now."
And Sheehan replied: "Okay. Bye."
By David R. Block, Friday, 28 July , 2006 @ 1:29 pm
Just a nit, but it’s the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Dallas has the Dallas Morning News.
By Gaius, Friday, 28 July , 2006 @ 1:48 pm
Thanks - that’s how it was identified on the aggregater.
By USASamurai, Monday, 31 July , 2006 @ 8:45 pm
Brilliant! Just brilliant!