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Title: Lyndon LaRouche dead at age 96
Post by: MillCreek on February 14, 2019, 09:43:18 AM

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694626800/conspiracy-theorist-and-frequent-presidential-candidate-lyndon-larouche-dies-at-?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190214&fbclid=IwAR22aUWlmfCzV6uE7slzn8K4hyQfNPGMq0SSI1PDpzJVg4dg3dj9QDalFNA

I remember back in the 70's and 80's when he was getting more attention for his Presidential runs.

Title: Re: Lyndon LaRouche dead at age 96
Post by: WLJ on February 14, 2019, 09:44:32 AM

Havn't heard that name in a long long time.

Title: Re: Lyndon LaRouche dead at age 96
Post by: K Frame on February 14, 2019, 10:41:22 AM

I remember his Saturday or Sunday "rant-o-mercials" where he'd buy a half hour block of time to call the Queen of England head of an international drug cartel...

Title: Re: Lyndon LaRouche dead at age 96
Post by: lee n. field on February 14, 2019, 12:05:56 PM

This supposed horrible right winger, whose minions always seemed to run as Democrats, to my great amusement.

Title: Re: Lyndon LaRouche dead at age 96
Post by: Perd Hapley on February 14, 2019, 02:57:08 PM

 

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LaRouche was convicted in 1988 of tax and mail fraud conspiracy after a jury found him guilty of cheating the IRS and his own supporters.

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Title: Re: Lyndon LaRouche dead at age 96
Post by: Scout26 on February 14, 2019, 06:51:27 PM

He managed to get a bunch of his supporters on the Democrat ballot after they won in the primary.  They had pretty innocuous names like Hart and Fairchild, and IIRC, had managed to get their names put at the top of Democrat ballot.

On March 19, 1986, Hart celebrated her victory of the previous day, saying "I'm going to revive the spirit of Abraham Lincoln and General Patton. We're going to roll our tanks down State Street."

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Democratic National Committee chairman Paul Kirk responded by saying "Good Lord, we have a problem here."

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The Illinois Democrat party became the "Solidarity Party" and both they and the LaRoucheite D's got trounced, as many D's still pulled the lever for Hart and Fairchild.

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