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.
