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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:59 am Post subject: Another Wacko Democrat Wins - TX Primary |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100621/us_time/08599199807600
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... in Texas, another surprise Democratic primary winner, congressional nominee Kesha Rogers, wants to impeach the President. ...
Rogers, 33, told TIME she is a "full time political activist" in the Lyndon LaRouche Youth Movement, a recruiting arm of the LaRouche political organization that is active on many college campuses.
The LYM espouses LaRouche opposition to free trade and "globalism" (the UN, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund) and it also calls for a return to a humanist classical education, emphasizing the works of Plato and Leibnitz. On her professional looking campaign website, kesharogers.com, she touts the LaRouche political philosophy - a mix of support for the economic policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the impeachment of President Obama - and calls Obama a "London and Wall Street backed puppet" whose policies will destroy the Democratic Party. During the campaign, she was photographed carrying an oversized portrait of the President with a Hitler-style moustache penciled on his lip ...
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... Rogers ran a high profile campaign, staking out a corner on a major intersection in the district to appear almost daily with a large sign: "Save NASA. Impeach Obama." She garnered 7,467 votes, 53% of the vote, in a three way race ...
according to a Democratic Party insider, is Rogers benefitted from her name being in the top position on the Fort Bend County ballot, where African-American Democratic interest was high in two local races.
But Rogers rejects that notion. "I went to senior citizens centers. I was knocking on doors everywhere - everyone knew my positions, " she told TIME. "I don't think the Democratic Party leadership is getting it. The people continue to see more and more economic devastation and they don't see any real leadership." And for now, the party leadership will pretend that it can't see Rogers. |
Kesha Rogers is the Democratic Party nominee to fill the US House seat once held by Tom Delay. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| At least this one actually seems to have campaigned. This is no where near as anomalous as Greene. |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Makes an amusing change to all the libertarian-loon coverage. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I kinda like her. Maybe what the House needs are a few more wackos. I mean, how much worse can it do? |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
| I kinda like her. Maybe what the House needs are a few more wackos. I mean, how much worse can it do? |
Hahaha, yeah quite so, Casper. |
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Arthur Dent
Joined: 28 Mar 2007
Location: Kochu whirld
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| The LaRouchites' "fund raising" technique, the indictment said, consisted of approaching people in airports, shopping centers and post offices in seven cities to solicit contributions and sell subscriptions to such LaRouche publications as Fusion, New Solidarity and Executive Intelligence Review magazines. Donors were encouraged to pay with Visa, MasterCard and American Express credit cards. The card numbers were then recorded on what LaRouche followers called "contact cards," which listed a cardholder's name, address, telephone number and special interests. Later fund raisers used the cards to make further pitches by telephone. Some victims were called 30 times or more, often in the middle of the night. The fund raisers used what the indictment calls "increasingly insistent tones" to ask for loans or donations to the LaRouche campaign organizations. If the solicitations were refused, the indictment alleges, the LaRouchites went ahead anyway and charged unauthorized donations to the victims' credit cards. More than 2,000 unauthorized charges were made, the indictment said; one victim was taken for $8,200. |
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1075206-1,00.html
I remember seeing an article in Time magazine long before this one, back in the 80's. It was a much shorter article about two (a man and a woman) of his followers being arraigned for some crime - I can't recall what it was. What struck me most though was the accompanying photo. The look on these people's faces was chilling, and their eyes were cold and dark. It wasn't just a trick of the light or a bad photograph.
I looked for it on the Time site but I haven't found it yet. These people aren't just out to lunch. They're out for breakfast and dinner, and they're charging it to you!
I hadn't heard about them for quite a long time. I guess it isn't surprising that they are still around.
This one is good too:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,961166,00.html |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
| At least this one actually seems to have campaigned. This is no where near as anomalous as Greene. |
Yeah, there's no real mystery about what happened here. The LaRouchians, quite openly, manipulated the process and circumstances to get one of their own a spot in a low-profile Democratic race. It doesn't raise the same kind of issues about alleged behind-the-scenes manipulation as does the Greene case. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:59 am Post subject: |
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| On the other hand wrote: |
| Fox wrote: |
| At least this one actually seems to have campaigned. This is no where near as anomalous as Greene. |
Yeah, there's no real mystery about what happened here. The LaRouchians, quite openly, manipulated the process and circumstances to get one of their own a spot in a low-profile Democratic race. It doesn't raise the same kind of issues about alleged behind-the-scenes manipulation as does the Greene case. |
Actually, the Greene case is quite simple. No one had heard of either candidate. Greene had a better sounding name and was on the top of the ticket. The Democrat's hand-picked golden boy had only 4% name recognition and a scary name.
Kesha Rogers had the top of the ticket; she's female so, she wins the female vote; African-American so, she wins that vote; she outspent and outcampaigned the others so, she wins the effort and name recognition-only vote.
Tip O'Neal would not be surprised. All politics is local ... and it has little to do with real issues. |
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