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[Judi Lynn]

Crawford bracing for thousands for dueling rallies
By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer

Saturday, August 27, 2005


(08-27) 00:10 PDT Crawford, Texas (AP) --

This one-stoplight town of 700 residents near President Bush's ranch braced for thousands of visitors Saturday, most in a cross-country caravan for a pro-Bush rally and others to support a three-week-long anti-war demonstration.

More than 3,000 people were expected at the school football stadium for a pro-Bush rally, the culmination of the "You don't speak for me, Cindy!" tour that started last week in California.

It would be the largest counter protest since Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., started camping out off the road leading to Bush's ranch Aug. 6, soon after his Texas vacation began. She vowed to remain unless he talked to her about the war with Iraq that claimed the life of her son Casey and more than 1,870 other U.S. soldiers.

The pro-Bush caravan was coordinated by Move America Forward, a group led by former Republican California Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian and strategist Sal Russo, who in 2003 launched one of the two simultaneous efforts to recall California's then-governor, Democrat Gray Davis.
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