Antiwar protestor Cindy Sheehan is officially starting the process tochallenge Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as an independent candidate for Congress this fall.
She’s going to need a little help, in the form of 10,198 friends and supporters, 3 percent of 2006 voters in Pelosi’s district who were registered for the 2006 general election.
That shouldn’t be too hard. Now, how well Sheehan, the mother of deceased soldier Casey Sheehan, does in the general election, is another thing.
I’m not expecting her to win, but I would LOVE for her to get at least 10 percent of the vote.
And, if she did surprise me, and everybody else, and pull off this upset, all the better.
Pelosi also has a primary challenge from San Francisco activist Shirley Golub.
And, not so fast on dissing Sheehan, Mr. Chronicle staff writer John Wildermuth. Yes, Democrats may outnumber Republicans 56-10 percent among registered voters, but that means 34 percent of registered voters in the district are unaffiliated, and I’m betting most of them ain’t libertarian types.
Beyond that, San Franciscans nearly elected a Green in the last mayoral election. If Sheehan is comfortable running on an official Green platform and the local Green Party is ready to pull the trigger, it could really be fun.
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