ending No Child Left Behind, and legalizing same-sex marriage. Sheehan lost the 2008 election to the incumbent Pelosi. In a seven-way race, Sheehan came in second with 46,118 votes (16.14%) to Pelosi's 71.56%. 2012 vice-presidential candidacy In the summer of 2012, television personality Roseanne Barr named Sheehan as her running mate for the presidential nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party in the 2012 presidential election. Barr and Sheehan were nominated by that party as its presidential ticket on August 4, 2012. 2014 California gubernatorial candidacy and campaign On March 12, 2013 Marsha Feinland, state chair of California's Peace and Freedom Party, made the announcement that the central committee of the party had unanimously endorsed Cindy Sheehan for Governor of California in the 2014 election, should Sheehan choose to run. Sheehan formally announced her campaign for Governor of California at a news conference Tuesday, August 27, 2013 at the State Capitol in Sacramento. Sheehan said she planned to unseat incumbent Gov. Jerry Brown, and to bring California "peace, economic equality and environmental sustainability," and reforms through an EPIC (End Poverty in California) program. Her EPIC campaign harkened to the End Poverty in California movement campaign of the 1934 California gubernatorial candidate Upton Sinclair. Sinclair garnered 879,537 votes in that race. Political positions Sheehan has, through her own blog, described herself as a socialist. She has also criticized capitalism. In 2010, Sheehan changed her voter registration in California and became a member of the Peace and Freedom Party. Sheehan has expressed opposition to Covid-19 restrictions, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates. She published a paper about former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's nursing home controversy. Published works Dear President Bush (2006) Peace Mom (2006) See also Views on the 2003 invasion of Iraq Movement to impeach George W. Bush List of peace activists References External links Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox Radio, blog and action page Former blogs at Crawford Update, DailyKos and Huffington Post Cindy Sheehan Sets Up "Camp Out Now" in Antiwar Protest - video report by Democracy Now! Cindy Sheehan On "Peace Heroes: Albert Einstein". 18 May 2010. Dissent in the age of Obama - an article by Cindy Sheehan, 5 October 2010 Injustice in the age of Obama - an article by Cindy Sheehan, 16 October 2010 Bush was No Better Than Donald Trump - an interview between Cindy Sheehan and The Daily Beast, Oct. 23rd 2017. 1957 births Living