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The following was sent out by the followers of Lyndon LaRouche, stating that one State Chair candidate has communicated with his Texas organizer and is seeking a LaRouche endorsement.
from: http://larouchepub.com/
Executive Intelligence Review
PRESS RELEASE
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`Candidate of Change' Image Takes a Hit in Texas
June 1, 2008 (EIRNS)-This release was issued on May 31 by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC).
On the eve of the Texas Democratic Party state convention, which opens next Thursday in Austin, the national Obama campaign has demonstrated again that it has no interest in the young voters it has activated, except to have them cast a vote for Obama, then disappear from sight. Texas Party Vice Chairwoman, Roy LaVerne Brooks, who is a candidate for state Chair at the upcoming convention, was told by Rudy Shank, from the national Obama campaign, that she should drop out of the race, "because they would like a convention without hurt feelings."
Brooks, who cut her teeth in Texas politics working with former U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright, asked Kesha Rogers and the LaRouchePAC to back her candidacy for state Chair. She agreed that the content of her campaign should be the concept put forward by Lyndon LaRouche in his "Bind the Wounds" statement, and not centered around the "phenomenon" of Obama. She has run her campaign based on the idea of returning the Party to the tradition of FDR and the American System, and recruiting new voters to this perspective. As a result, she has been endorsed by some leaders among the Hispanic Dems, who are backers of Hillary.
However, she came under pressure last week from the national Obama camp, which pushed her to turn on black leaders who were not supporting Obama. Kesha Rogers advised her she would never win on the basis of racial identity, nor by attaching herself to a media cooked-up rock star persona, and that, instead, the deeper issue to take up in her campaign is that of developing among new voters an understanding of the real issue, FDR vs. the Brits, and winning them over to the FDR tradition, rather than the opportunistic approach of the faith-based, Elmer Gantry delivery system.
Over the last two days, the national Obama campaign changed its approach. Roy LaVerne was contacted by Rudy Shank, who was sent by the national campaign to Texas, to produce an "harmonic outcome" at the Texas convention. As part of this strategy, she was told she should drop out of the race for state chair. If she refused, the Obama campaign would take away her status as a superdelegate.
If she agreed to this demand, her status as a superdelegate would be maintained, even though her term as Vice-Chair ends at the conclusion of the state convention.
When she briefed Kesha on these developments, we told her she should fight this, by going public. She hesitated until yesterday, when it was announced that the incumbent State Chair, and her opponent, Boyd Richie, has endorsed Obama, thus making it clear that the Obama campaign had gone behind her back. Richie, who is a flunkey for the existing Democratic Party establishment in Texas - which is essentially the same DLC-types who have destroyed the state party - had been uncommitted.
In the May 30 Houston Chronicle, political columnist Rick Casey ran an article on this battle, under the headline "An Obama mystery at state meet." Casey makes the obvious point in his reporting on this scandal:
"There are ironies in the request by an Obama operative that Brooks back off the chairman's race.
"One is that she is an African-American. The state Democratic chairman has traditionally been a white male, with an occasional white female slipping in.
"Another is that Brooks is casting herself as a 'change' from the good ol' boy system. Brooks' chances of unseating Richie are enhanced by several thousand change-oriented newcomers who will swell the convention to about triple its normal size.
"All this begs the question: Why would the national Obama campaign involve itself in a state [chair] race?"
After reviewing the business-as-usual monkey business in the Texas Democratic Party, in which minorities are taken for granted, and given secondary, token roles, Casey concludes his article as follows:
"Brooks said she told Shank she would stay in the race. "'I made the comment that I may need to jump over to Hillary's side because I'm not going to be treated like a dish rag,' she said.
"I asked if she was serious.
"'I'm very serious if they keep trying to get me out of the race and I learn that Obama is behind it,' she said."
These developments confirm what Lyndon LaRouche had said six weeks ago, when he was given a report from Kesha Rogers from the district caucuses which had convened to choose the national delegates. Kesha reported that, despite the influx of thousands of new people, who had been activated by the rock-star-hype around Obama, the Obama delegate slots were going to the old party hacks. Lyndon LaRouche said that this is the clear pattern, that Rohatyn, Pelosi, Dean, were going to use these young voters - many of who have been mobilized as MySpace/Facebook zombies - for their votes, then cast them aside.
This morning, LaRouche said this fits the pattern of the effort, by the DNC, to disenfranchise the primary voters in Florida and Michigan, at their meeting on May 31.
Kesha Rogers is presently at a Credentials Committee meeting, asking leading Democrats what they think of how the Obama campaign has lined up with the British in Africa, while organizing to keep the plantation system in the Texas Dem Party. She said that there is recognition of the problem, and both anger and discomfort over it. (HCS)
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Carl Whitmarsh
Houston, Harris County, Texas
“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln
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