Peace activist buys house near Bush ranch in Texas
Crawford mayor vows to keep eye on house
DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) -- President Bush has a new neighbor in Crawford, Texas -- a peace activist who plans to use his house near the president's ranch as a springboard to speak out on issues such as a war with Iraq.
John Wolf, a peace activist from the Dallas area, recently completed paperwork to buy a home in Crawford, a town of less than 1,000 people. He plans to use the facility as an interfaith peace house that can serve as a base to launch peace protests near the ranch Bush calls the Western White House.
"I wish the peace house was already up and running," Wolf said.
The house, near city hall, is one of the first structures that visitors to Crawford see after passing along a sign on the highway that welcomes people to town and reminds them it is the "Home of President George W. Bush".
Crawford Mayor Robert Campbell told the Dallas Morning News the town will keep a close eye on the peace house. Campbell was not immediately available for comment.
"We're not going to let them turn the town into a three-ring circus," Campbell told the paper. "If they want to protest, let them go to Washington."
Wolf said people of many different faiths, such as Muslims, Catholics and Quakers, will work out of the house. He plans for the facility to have a peace garden, a media center and facilities for interfaith worship.
The house was purchased for $54,000 and is about seven miles away from the front entrance of the Bush ranch.
"We are anything but threatening," he said.
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