Ithaca group joins Texas protest

8/12/2005 10:02 PM
By: News 10 Now Web Staff

The California mother who lost a son in the Iraq war is getting some local help for her protest. A group of supporters from Ithaca will join Cindy Sheehan at President Bush's ranch in Crawford Texas next week.

Organizers came up with the idea Thursday night and by Friday they had nearly a dozen people willing to go to Texas. Many who couldn't make the trip donated food and money for the travelers.

"The minute I read that I realized this is going on all over and I raised it with some people and right away everywhere we turn people have been on it. It's not a hard sell at all. People want to do something, people are fed up,