Jebus! Is she the best the Texas Democratic Party can do for a Senate Candidate??

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Dem's Fighting Words: U.S. Senate 'front-runner' Kesha Rogers wants to impeach President Obama

By Jonathan Tilove
Good day Austin:
There was some interesting news in the new University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll released today.

Greg Abbott has a pretty much business-as-usual 11-point lead over Wendy Davis in the governor's contest - 47 to 36 percent with 17 percent undecided.

The Republican race for lieutenant governor looks like it's headed for a David Dewhurst vs. Dan Patrick runoff.
Debra Medina, on a shoestring, is running ahead in the GOP race for comptroller.

And, the real stunner, Kesha Rogers, on an even stringier shoestring, is the front-runner in the Democratic race for the U.S. Senate, with 35 percent support among likely voters to 27 percent for David Alameel, 15 percent for Maxey Scherr, 14 percent for Harry Kim and 9 percent for Michael Fjetland.

Holy Steve Stockman, Batman!

That is Kesha Rogers, the follower of Lyndon LaRouche - the by-now grand old man of conspiracy-minded, so-far-left-he's-right, or so-far-right-he's-left American politics. This is the Kesha Rogers who prefers her images of Barack Obama adorned with a small Hitler mustache and who makes Steve Stockman look mealy-mouthed in her foursquare support for impeaching the president.

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http://www.statesman.com/weblogs/first-reading/2014/feb/24/dems-fighting-words-us-senate-front-runner-kesha-r/

This is the US SENATE, FOLKS! Not some small town alderman. Sheesh. I don't care if she has 0% chance of being elected.

[HappyMe]

1. WTF!

She's no Democrat.

[giftedgirl77]

2. She's fucking nutz.

[jsr]

3. Sounds like Stockholm syndrome

[Gothmog]

4. Kesha is not a Democrat

I live in CD 22 and have been dealing with her for a while. She is a member of the LaRouche cult and believes that the Queen of England controls the drug trade and British banks control the world. The State Party is fighting back. Yesterday, Chairman Hinojosa sent out this e-mail

Dear _____,

Kesha Rogers is one of the candidates on the ballot for U.S. Senator in the Democratic primary -- but do not be fooled. Kesha Rogers is not a Democrat.

Ms. Rogers is part of the “LaRouche Movement,” which has a history of violent rhetoric. The focus of her campaign is impeaching President Obama. Rogers has even paraded around Texas with a poster of the President with a Hitler mustache.

Rogers believes that the U.S. economy is secretly controlled by London financial institutions and she has advocated for colonizing Mars. That’s not what real Democrats stand for.

The Texas Democratic Party does not support the candidacy of Kesha Rogers or anyone that aligns themselves with the LaRouche Movement. Our State Democratic Executive Committee even issued a resolution against her campaign. Do not vote for Kesha Rogers in the primary.

Rogers’ candidacy is a insult to our Party, our President, our state, our Democratic values, and to all the work you are doing to move our state forward.

Do not vote for Kesha Rogers.

All my best --

Gilberto Hinojosa
Chair, Texas Democratic Primary

I would hate to see Kesha in a run off.

[Gothmog]

5. Here is the resolution adopted by the Texas Democratic Party with respect to Kesha

Here is the actual resolution adopted by the State Party http://www.txdemocrats.org/pdf/Kesha-Rogers.pdf

State Democratic Executive Committee (SDEC) Has Resolved:

WHEREAS, the rules of the Texas Democratic Party (Art. I, B, 1.) require that no test of membership, nor oaths of loyalty, to the Texas Democratic Party shall be used if those oaths or tests would have the effect of requiring members of the Democratic Party to acquiesce in, condone or support discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and ethnic origin, now therefore be it

RESOLVED, that no Rules or Declarations of the Texas Democratic Party that require support for Party nominees shall be enforced or have any application as they relate to the candidacy of any person identifying him or herself as aligned with the LaRouche Movement or Lyndon LaRouche, and, be it further

RESOLVED, that Members, Officers and Candidates of the Texas Democratic Party are neither required nor encouraged to support the candidacy of any person indentifying him or herself as aligned with the LaRouche Movement or Lyndon LaRouche but are nevertheless free to relate to, describe and interact with any such candidates or campaigns as they individually deem appropriate, and, be it further

RESOLVED, that the Texas Democratic Party will have no relationship with the campaign of any person indentifying him or herself as aligned with the LaRouche Movement or Lyndon LaRouche; no such campaigns will have access to Party materials or data, no listing on the Party website and no position of privilege, recognition, or credentialing at Party meetings or conventions.