Cindy Sheehan organized and ran a really good race against Nancy Pelosi for Pelosi’s House seat. Cindy received about 30,000 votes, which was roughly 20% of the vote in this San Francisco race. To me, that is highly significant for an Independent Candidate. Again, I ponder what "defeat" and "win" really are.
The article below is Cindy’s response to her race and the election. (You can make comments over on Facebook.)
I Will Never Concede Defeat
by Cindy Sheehan
"I have fought the good fight, I have run the good race, I have kept the faith." St. Paul in 2Timothy
This past month, I kept on saying to my supporters, staff, interns, volunteers and myself, that no matter what happened on November 4th that we could hold our heads up high and be very proud of our campaign. Until yesterday, I wasn’t sure that what I said would be true, but I feel an incredibly sense of peace and pride in our accomplishments. There were so many victories over the last year that the American paradigm of "winner-take all" just doesn’t fit.
We moved into San Francisco a little over a year ago with less than nothing. We used savings and credit cards to open our office and sometimes to keep it open. We transformed a former "sex shop" to a fully functioning and vibrant campaign office. Our "natural base" never materialized, so we had to build a foundation in less than a few months.
In August, we historically gained ballot access as only the 6th independent campaign in California history to do so. Our platform based on humane economics was in place long before the recent collapses and resultant bailouts. Our labor platform was hailed all over the world, while unions here in SF supported the corporate "rescuer" Nancy Pelosi.
Cindy for Congress never once sold out our solid principles based campaign and would never sell out the voters of San Francisco like Nancy Pelosi has. Nancy Pelosi ran from my campaign and our demands to debate me and we persevered and did so amazingly well after a near total media black out and several attempts at political intimidation. Continue reading
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