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Freeper Exclusive - Code Pink Leader: Cindy Sheehan Not Broke, Has 'Plenty of Money'
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 | Kristinn

Posted on 06/06/2007 8:42:12 PM PDT by kristinn

Medea Benjamin, leader of the terrorist supporting Marxist front group Code Pink, tonight contradicted Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan's claim that she was broke after three years of non-stop campaigning against the Iraq war.

Sheehan, whose antiwar effort was prompted by the combat death in Iraq of her son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, in April 2004, issued a statement on Memorial Day announcing her retirement from the peace movement. In that statement, Sheehan claimed to have spent "every penny" she has received in the past three years to stop the war. She said that her hospital bills from treatment for a life-threatening illness last year are in collection.

Two years ago, Benjamin and Code Pink took Sheehan under their wing. Benjamin has taken Sheehan around the world protesting against America in support of Marxist dictators from the Korean peninsula to Europe, Venezuela and Cuba. Sheehan, who became world-famous as a result of her month-long antiwar encampment outside President Bush's Texas ranch in August 2005, helped garner publicity and greater influence for Code Pink on her global travels with Benjamin.

Code Pink took over the handling of fundraising receipts for Sheehan's two groups, Gold Star Families for Peace and the Camp Casey Peace Institute. The group also provided an assistant to Sheehan, an activist named Tiffany Burns.

Confronted outside a Hillary Clinton presidential fundraiser in Washington, D.C. tonight where she was tring to protest Clinton, Benjamin claimed that Code Pink didn't "touch any of Cindy's money" while acting as her fundraising agent.

When it was pointed out to Benjamin that she and her Code Pink co-founders Jodie Evans and Gael Murphy were all rich women who should be ashamed for using Sheehan to the point that she was too poor to pay her hospital bills, Benjamin flatly stated, "Cindy's got plenty of money."

When asked if Sheehan was lying when she said she was broke, Benjamin silently walked away.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cindysheehan; codepink; medeabenjamin
Cat fight brewing?
1 posted on 06/06/2007 8:42:17 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Soros hasn’t given up, I guess.


2 posted on 06/06/2007 8:43:49 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: kristinn

oooo, scam artists don’t like to get scammed!


3 posted on 06/06/2007 8:44:49 PM PDT by bannie
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To: kristinn

I am off to microwave some popcorn.


4 posted on 06/06/2007 8:45:10 PM PDT by indcons
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To: kristinn

No no, she’s gone.

No excuses for coming back, Cindy, you said you were finished.

(3, 2, 1.... here she comes, again.)


5 posted on 06/06/2007 8:46:04 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: kristinn
"Cat fight brewing?"

I'd say so. This may be the last we hear about it though.

6 posted on 06/06/2007 8:46:36 PM PDT by blam
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To: kristinn

I love good cat fight
BTW I got question Kristinn what hell she get the money


7 posted on 06/06/2007 8:48:13 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: kristinn

Eating their own.

That’s what they do.


8 posted on 06/06/2007 8:48:55 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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To: kristinn

So they put her in charge of an organization, hired tons of pros for big bucks, but forget to get her any health insurance? Would have been what, $450 a month, tops?

Hmmm.....


9 posted on 06/06/2007 8:50:04 PM PDT by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: Wiseghy

Hmmm.....is right.


10 posted on 06/06/2007 9:05:49 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: SevenofNine

Cindy got honorariums for speeches, she authored several books and she got insurance money when her son was killed in action.


11 posted on 06/06/2007 9:07:52 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: SevenofNine

Cindy got honorariums for speeches, she authored several books and she got insurance money when her son was killed in action.


12 posted on 06/06/2007 9:07:54 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

She should be audited.


13 posted on 06/06/2007 9:09:03 PM PDT by airborne (Airborne - Ranger - Vietnam veteran! Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: kristinn

Cindy got honorariums for speeches, she authored several books and she got insurance money when her son was killed in action.


I thought nobody bought her books. Remember the pictures of the “book signings?”

And her “books” looked like paper pamphlets!


14 posted on 06/06/2007 9:10:39 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear

I don’t think any of them sold very well. The hardback book probably did the best because she did a professional book tour for it.


15 posted on 06/06/2007 9:12:46 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

I see I wonder how does the witch support herself

Who pay for all these trip back and forth beteen Venzulera or Texas

If she try that in California trust me she be so charge with Stalking law in Cali

We do have stalking law in California


16 posted on 06/06/2007 9:13:18 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: kristinn

Isn’t it interesting that the people who lead Communist movements always end up rich?


17 posted on 06/06/2007 9:27:03 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: kristinn

But she likely received a hefty advance for her book, even if it didn’t sell well. She may not have made more than the advance, but she made the advance money.


18 posted on 06/06/2007 9:51:15 PM PDT by cammie
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To: kristinn

bump


19 posted on 06/06/2007 10:49:46 PM PDT by lowbridge ("The mainstream media IS the Democratic Party." - Rush Limbaugh)
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