"Vote for me so we can send our grandchilren to Mars!!!"

[joeybee12]

Texas Dems Grapple With Their Own Alvin Greene

South Carolina's unexpected Democratic nominee for the US Senate, mystery man Alvin Greene, says he wants to play golf with Barack Obama. But in Texas, another surprise Democratic primary winner, congressional nominee Kesha Rogers, wants to impeach the President. So while South Carolina party officials are still unsure of what to do about Greene's success at the ballot box, Texas Democrats have no such reservations - they wasted little time in casting Rogers into exile and offering no support or recognition of her campaign to win what once was Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay's old seat.


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. (See TIME's photos: Crawford, Texas, circa 2009)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100621/us_time/08599199807600

IMHO, this is a case of local Dems writing off the seat.

[Bluzmann57]

1. I believe you are correct

A few years ago in Illinois, there were some LaRouche "Dems." who screwed things up. I cannot recall exact details anymore as I'm getting older and my memory (which was never great to begin with) is not what it used to be. But I do remember they got trounced at the polls because Illinois Democrats wanted nothing to do with the LaRoucheites. Btw, is that even a word, LaRouchites? Hmm...
No matter, it is unfortunate that these crazy people can call themselves Democrats and get away with it. Hopefully this will not mean a re-emergence of LaRouche followers.

[joeybee12]

2. I call a similar incident in Orange County in the 80's when it was entirely Repukelican...

...a member of the KKK got the Dem nomination because the Dems didn't even try, so a nutcase registering as a Dem got in.

[KamaAina]

3. Adlai Stevenson III was victimized by a LaRouchie lt. gov. nominee

who got in just by placing her WASPy name on the ballot against the real Dem's Polish one. Stevenson went third-party, and tanked.

[Bluzmann57]

4. Thanks for the clarification

I sort of recall that and that was the incident I was talking about. Once again, thank you.