Texas Dems Grapple With Their Own Alvin Greene
By Hilary Hylton / Austin
Sunday, Jun. 20, 2010
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.
As we have often noted before, it was the Lyndon Larouche folks (who
are Democrats) who have been displaying signs with Mr. Obama sporting
a Hitler moustache at various rallies. A detail our watchdog media
have studiously avoided.
Texas' 22nd district is a relatively conservative, primarily suburban
area west and south of Houston that includes — thanks to DeLay's
redistricting efforts — the NASA Johnson Space Center and surrounding
aerospace industries, where residents have expressed concerns about
cuts in manned space programs. Another major LaRouche-inspired plank
in Rogers' platform is support for the colonization of Mars. "Help
send me to Congress, and we can send our grandchildren to Mars!" was a
Rogers' slogan during the campaign.
Unlike South Carolina's Greene, 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…
Meanwhile, the state party has adopted a resolution denying any party
support for Rogers, citing the alleged racist and discriminatory views
of the LaRouche movement — allegations that Rogers, who is African-
American, firmly rejects.
See how easy it is for the Democrat Party to excommunicate a member?
All they have to do is declare them a racist – even if they are black.
And no one will bat an eye.
District 22 has also been stricken from the party's official online
list of congressional races. "No, I can't explain the result in CD
22," Houston progressive blogger Charles Kuffner wrote on his blog,
Off the Kuff. "Stuff just happens sometimes, especially in races where
not much attention is being paid."
One theory, 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.
Why has this story gotten so little attention from our national news
media, apart from Time? (Which is only read by people waiting to have
their teeth cleaned, if even then.)
Meanwhile, as the article itself notes, Mr. Alvin Greene is enjoying
tremendous coverage. So why the double standard?
Perhaps the answer is found in the story's lead paragraph. For,
despite all of his problems, Mr. Greene is a loyal Democrat who is in
lockstep with Mr. Obama and the Democrat Party.
Whereas Ms. Rogers is not. So she is summarily exiled and given the
cone of silence by the Democrat Party and of course their lickspittle
media minions.
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